A follow up on my previous work with crime by police beat, adding the ability to switch between beat and district. A district is a much larger area and changes the perception of the underlying data set.
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A follow up on my previous work with crime by police beat, adding the ability to switch between beat and district. A district is a much larger area and changes the perception of the underlying data set.
View the demoEver since my first programming experience with AutoLISP, the variant of the LISP language intended for automating AutoCAD, I had wanted to do data analytics again. I have used Javascript to process data, with the main disadvantage being that it is a very resource intensive method and not exactly what Javascript was intended for when it was developed. I had heard about the R language dedicated towards statistical analysis and decided a distributed approach was warranted: using R to process my data sets and create data files, and a web front end for actually displaying the data.
Initially my goal was use a React based visualization library, but after encountering issues with the only one in widespread use dedicated towards geographic JSON, I decided to use D3.js with React simply managing my interface state.
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