Context:

Crime in major metropolitan areas, such as London, occurs in distinct patterns. This data covers the number of criminal reports by month, LSOA borough, and major/minor category from Jan 2008-Dec 2016.

Content:

13M rows containing counts of criminal reports by month, LSOA borough, and major/minor category.

Acknowledgements:

Txt file was pulled from Google Cloud Platform and converted to csv. Photo by James Sutton.

Inspiration:

Are there seasonal or time-of-week/day changes in crime occurrences? Any boroughs where particular crimes are increasing or decreasing? Policy makers use this data to plan upcoming budgets and deployment--can you use previous year crime reports to reliably predict later trends? If you normalize by borough population, can you find any areas where crime is more or less likely?