Big Data Analytics for Crime Prevention in Chicago City

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Table of Contents
Introduction................................................................................................................................2
Task 1: Background information...............................................................................................2
Task 2 – Reporting / Dashboards...............................................................................................2
Task 3 – Advanced Insights.....................................................................................................10
Insight 1....................................................................................................................10
Insight 2....................................................................................................................11
Insight 3....................................................................................................................11
Insight 4....................................................................................................................12
Insight 5....................................................................................................................13
Task 4 – Research....................................................................................................................13
Task 5 – Recommendations for POLICE CHIEF....................................................................14
Task 6 – Cover letter................................................................................................................14
Task 7 - The Reflection............................................................................................................15
Bibliography.............................................................................................................................16

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Introduction
The main objective of this project is to find out the insight from the available data set
using the IBM Watson data analytics tool. With the use of big data analytics, the firm will
be able to find the risk and opportunity to prevent the increase in the crime, trends of different
crimes in the different beats or wards. In this way the Police department can proactively
identify and manage the risks associated with crime trends in order protect the citizens in the
locality.
Following report contributes to the discussion about the insights from the analysis,
and recommendation for the police chief with some advanced insights from the given dataset.
Task 1: Background information
The selected data set is comma separated file that contains the crime record for the
Chicago city for the time period of year 2012 to 2017. The data file contains 24 columns
which stores data about a crime and its different attributes such as Unique identifier ID, Case
Number, Incident date, Illinois Unifrom Crime Reporting code, block in which the incident
occurred, Primary Type or description of the crime, FBI code, community area etc.
Task 2 – Reporting / Dashboards
1. For the first dataset, there are 361741 reported crimes in the given dataset.
2. There are 32 types of reported crime in the selected dataset.
3. Top 21 location description by the following dashboard,

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Few of them can be listed as STREET, RESIDENCE, SIDEWALK, APARTMENT,
RESIDENTIAL YARD (FRONT/BACK).
4. the least 10 location description with reported crime are given by,
5. Top three most common type for the crimes are given by theft, Battery and
Narcotics which shown in the following dashboard.