Analysis of Crimes in Boston
This project analyzes crime incident reports provided by the Boston Police Department. Explore the most common types of crimes, locations where crimes are prevalent, dangerous streets, and peak crime hours in Boston. The dataset includes 319k records with 17 fields, detailing various aspects of crime incidents. From addressing data problems to identifying key findings and suggesting future work, this analysis delves into the insights gleaned from the dataset.
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Crimes In Boston An Analysis of Crimes In Boston By Ramone Dean DSCI 101 MWF
Project Overview The Data contains crime incident reports provided by the Boston Police Department and details on incidents which the Boston police officers respond to. What types of crimes are most common? Where are different types of crimes most likely to occur? What streets in Boston are most dangerous and at which hour of the day? In this presentation o Overview of Data o Problems with this dataset o Analysis Technique o Findings o Future Work
Data Overview From Kaggle o The data is provided by Analyze Boston. CSV Format o o 319k records o 17 fields o 55.2 MB
Data Fields Reporting_Area Offense_Code Shooting Offense_Code_Group Occurred_On_Date Offense_Description Year District Month Hour Day_Of_Week UCR_Part Street Lat Long Location Incident_Number
Problems REPORTING_AREA SHOOTING 808 347 151 Repetitive numeric fields were removed. 272 Fields that provided no significant information were removed. 421 All blank fields were removed. 398 330 All known bad data replaced with NA. 584 177 364 913
Analysis of Street Field Street Offense Count 11% Offense Code Street Offense Count 21% BLUE HILL AVE 7794 617 11% BOYLSTON ST 7221 802 CENTRE ST 4383 1402 COMMONWEALTH AVE 4134 2647 7% 6% DORCHESTER AVE 5149 3006 HARRISON AVE 4609 3114 6% MASSACHUSETTS AVE 4708 3115 NA 10871 3301 16% 8% TREMONT ST 4796 3410 WASHINGTON ST 14194 3831 7% 7% BLUE HILL AVE BOYLSTON ST CENTRE ST COMMONWEALTH AVE DORCHESTER AVE HARRISON AVE MASSACHUSETTS AVE NA TREMONT ST WASHINGTON ST
Analysis of Offense Field Count of Data Text and Numbers Blanks NA 0 319073 0 0 Count Of Offense 20000 18000 16000 14000 12000 10000 Offense Count 8000 6000 ASSAULT SIMPLE - BATTERY INVESTIGATE PERSON INVESTIGATE PROPERTY LARCENY THEFT FROM BUILDING M/V - LEAVING SCENE - PROPERTY DAMAGE SICK/INJURED/MEDICAL - PERSON THREATS TO DO BODILY HARM TOWED MOTOR VEHICLE VANDALISM VERBAL DISPUTE 14791 18754 11124 9069 16323 18783 9042 11287 15154 13099 4000 2000 0
Future Work I wish to do further research to find reasons why the top ten streets are the most dangerous. District field What specific day consists of the most crimes.
Conclusion What are the top ten most dangerous streets in Boston. At what hour do the most crimes happen. Which year in Boston consisted of the most crimes.