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Title: Data Visualization Tool for Covid-19 and Crime Data
Data visualization gives a visual context through maps or graphs and makes it easier for the human mind to identify trends, patterns, and outliers within large data sets. The understanding of patterns and location of crime through data visualization and data mining techniques approaches is a very useful tool which can help and support police forces. Identification of crime characteristics and types are the first step for developing further analysis. This paper describes the development of data visualization tool using Unity 3D and Maptitude GIS for visualization of Baltimore COVID-19 and crime data. This effort aims to determine parameters that influence the vulnerability of African Americans to COVID-19 during the pandemic. The study has found that the factors shown to be influential in a person’s susceptibility include neighborhood and physical environment, housing, occupation, education, income, and wealth gaps. The data collected from Baltimore incident reports and findings shared by Maryland SOA office shows that crime has increased and decreased in different areas during the time of COVID pandemic.  more » « less
Award ID(s):
2032344 1923986 2131116 2026412
PAR ID:
10333251
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Date Published:
Journal Name:
Proceeding of the IEEE International Conference on Computational Science and Computational Intelligence, (CSCI'21),Symposium of Big Data and Data Science (CSCI-ISBD)
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Medium: X
Sponsoring Org:
National Science Foundation
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