DataViz: Comparing Chicago Crime Data to Los Angeles Crime Data for 2012

According to Google’s approximation of the city populations :
approxPops

2012 Chicago Crime Data From :

https://data.cityofchicago.org/
“Data is extracted from the Chicago Police Department’s CLEAR (Citizen Law Enforcement Analysis and Reporting) system.”

2012 Los Angeles Crime Data :

http://www.lasdhq.org/sites/CAASS/desc.html
Los Angeles Count Sherrif’s Department

Now I have two sets of data. I have a (Primary Crime Type or Category of Crime) and Frequency;
for both Chicago and Los Angeles.

Here are what they look like.
LABEL CORRELATION

CPD labels their crimes differently from the LAPD.

Here is how I will be correlating some of the crimes between the two cities. Comparing the Chicago classifications to Los Angeles.
ManualCorrelate

Next I will manicure my data into a Google Column Chart acceptable JSON object.

CPD vs LAPD

2 thoughts on “DataViz: Comparing Chicago Crime Data to Los Angeles Crime Data for 2012

    1. MantasCode Post author

      I did not know this. I thought LASD was for Los Angeles wide crime statistics.

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