A review of Crime Analysis and Visualization. Case study: Maryland State, USA

Abstract

Geographic or cartographic Visualization is a form of information visualization includes principles of cartography, geographic information systems (GIS) and Exploratory Data Analysis (EDA). Throughout this work, we will introduce related works in the field of crimes which we classified based on either spatial or spatial and temporal aspects. Crimes remain a social problem of grave concern where police departments have to suppress and detect crimes. Our study focuses on the interactive visualization of crimes to provide deep insight. Our study area is Maryland State, the USA as there data available on the internet concerning 2016. The data includes three types of crimes: against a person, against society, and against property. Through our proposed visualization system we were able to present a critical insight into cities who have the most frequent crimes. Also, specify the day and time where each type of crime profoundly happened. Furthermore, the most frequent crime for each type.