Group 11 Overview

Motivation

Conservative party leader David Cameron coined the term "age of austerity" in his 2009 keynote speech to the Conservative Party Forum. The birth of that term is the harbinger of the relentless cut of the police funding that would persist til this day. As a result, number of police across the country plummeted by 14% between 2009 and 2016 and conversely, crime rate has increased.

As such, the utilization of police resources has to be optimised to fight the raising crime in difference regions of the country. This project aims to provide a visualisation of the crime rate across the UK and, perharp more importantly, reveal some insight of the crimes in the UK.

Dataset

Datasets from data.police.uk will be analysed and visualised.

The main datasets of interest are:

•   Stop and search dataset
•   Crime Data
•   Outcome Data
•   Shape of police force boundaries
•   Shape of neighbourhood boundaries

Secondary dataset includes people, population and community data from Office for National Statistics.

•   Health and socialcare
•   Housing
•   Income and wealth
•   Shape of police force boundaries
•   Population

Visualisation/Aanlysis

• Choropleth map (Temporal and Spatial)
• Clustering
• Parallel plot
• Time series analysis

Statistical and visualisationTools

• R
• R Shiny
• Bootstrap (Update from version 3 in shiny to version 4)
• D3 (If alternatives in R is not available or not as rich/interactive)
• Angular Js (For single page application routing and databinding)