Data Analysis: Insights on Crime in Chicago

Running head: DATA ANALYSIS 1
Data analysis
Name
Institution

DATA ANALYSIS 2
Contents
Task 3 – Advanced Insights.................................................................................................3
Task 6 – Cover letter............................................................................................................3
Task 7 - The Reflection:......................................................................................................4
References............................................................................................................................5

DATA ANALYSIS 3
Task 3 – Advanced Insights
 Chicago has a low safe city index due to the high domestic crimes reported per year
(Zimring, 2011).
 The Chicago Police Department's CLEAR (Citizen Law Enforcement Analysis and
Reporting) system has a very low crime clearance rate because arrests are never made in
most of the reported crime cases.
 Narcotics crimes has the highest crime clearance rate while theft crimes has the lowest
crime clearance rate.
 Residential areas and the streets are the crime hot spots in Chicago. This means that there
is high prevalence of crimes in this areas (Chainey, 2008).
 People absence from their residence on the day of worship is a predisposing factor for
crime.
Task 6 – Cover letter
Police chief
Chicago police
26th September 2018
Dear sir/madam
I am a data analyst currently working for Federation University Australia. In the data analysis
project, I used the Watson analytic software to analyze the information about the crimes in
Chicago. I have considered different aspects of the crimes as you provided. Some of the aspects I
analyzed are types of crimes, location of the crimes, day when the crime was committed, and the
arrest frequency against the reported cases among others. After the data analysis, there are very