ANLY 512 Visual Data Exploration

Viz 1

This viz helps us understand how many cases were identified in the incident year and this trend over time so we can identify any increases or decreases.

setwd("~/Desktop/HU/512/problem set 4 - VDE")
knitr::include_graphics("512-VDE-casesperyear.png")

Viz 2

This viz helps us understand how many cases were closed in a given year and allows us to understand if there has been a decrease or increase. This will help us understand if more cases have been solved based on the number of cases open in that year.

knitr::include_graphics("512-VDE-casesclosed.png")

Viz 3

This viz shows us the location of incident for cases recorded. This helps us understand where most incidents take place which is important from understanding and analyzing the overall nature of cases and future prevention.

knitr::include_graphics("512-VDE-Location.png")

Viz 4

This viz shows us the geographical area of incidents for cases recorded. This helps us understand where most incidents take place which is important from understanding and analyzing the overall nature of cases and future prevention.

knitr::include_graphics("512-VDE-Boroughs.png")

Viz 5

This viz delineates how most complaints wers made which will help allocate sufficient resources to deal with incoming complaints .

knitr::include_graphics("512-VDE-filemode.png")

Viz 6

This viz shows us the number of cases that had supported video evidence which can help quickly narrow down the cases which do to further investigate .

knitr::include_graphics("512-VDE-Video.png")

Viz 7

This viz shows us the number of case outcomes that did or did not have further investigation conducted. This tells us if there is a need to investigate further correlation between outcome and investigation conducted.

knitr::include_graphics("512-VDE-outcomeinvestigations.png")

Viz 8

Here we see the number of cases closed over time with respect to their outcome which can help us identify trends in certain outocmes to further investigate causes.

knitr::include_graphics("512-VDE-casesandoutcomeovertime.png")

Viz 9

In this viz we vizualize the outcome of a case and the time it takes between incident and closing of the case. This further probes quetsions on method and timeline of investigation which can determine time taken to determine outcome.

knitr::include_graphics("512-VDE-Outcome-Time.png")

Viz 10

In this viz we vizualize the initial contact for complaint and the arrest outcome of a case. This can help us classify and quantify complaints that come and the arrests that get allocated to the kinds of intial complaints.

knitr::include_graphics("512-VDE-contactoutcome.png")

Summary

This Visual data exploration exercise was very helpful to go through the end to end process of familiarizing yourself with the data available - raw data format, data types, dimensions and measures etc. This is further useful to understand what aspects of the data are usefl to analyze and what are the right questions that need to be framed in such an analysis. It also helps us test different visual formats to best communicate the story through your data. As we go along the process of visual analysis we encounter additional questions that we would like to answer and further help in conducting analysis.