Let's examine the nature of the crime incidents in the city of San Francisco reported from January 1, 2020 to August 1, 2022.
For this analysis, I will use the city of San Francisco's Open Data Portal to grab the incident report data.
Below are images captured by visualizations I created in Google Looker Studio. If you would like to see the original dashboards, follow these links:
Let's examine the spread of the types of incidents reported to the San Francisco Police Department. This is the breakdown of the categories of incidents that occurred from January 1, 2020 through August 2022.
As you can see, larceny theft (30.2%) is the majority of incidents reported in San Francisco followed by malicious mischief (21.7%).
Next let's examine the top 10 incidents by category and subcategory.
Looks like most of the incidents reported to police involve some form of larceny and vehicle theft.
Let's look at a graph of the number of incidents reported per day from January 1, 2020 through August 1, 2022.
Seems like there have been a spike of incidents reported to police since May 2021.
Now let's look at a heat map of the incidents that occurred during January 2020 to August 2022.
There seems to be a particular large cluster of incidents that occurred around Union Square.
Some good questions to ask are:
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Why is there a spike in the number of incidents in May 2021?
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Is there a particular reason why the area around Union Square has a high number of incidents?
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Most of the incidents reported seem to be centered around theft. Is this an indication of a bad economy and high unemployment?
If you would like to know more about how this project was constructed, view the recreate_project.md file.