Mapping crime data in R: An introduction to GIS and spatial data workshop

Crime data often contains spatial components. As a result, analyses of crime data can create patterns that are clearly linked to geography. Naturally, putting the data or analysis on a map makes a lot of sense. Unfortunately, if you have never matched statistical data to spatial data then you may not know how easy it can be to make beautiful data maps!

That’s where this workshop comes in! The aim of this workshop is to teach participants to use the R statistical and graphical environment to map open-source police recorded crime statistics onto geographic representations.

Presenter: Nadia Kennar, UK Data Service

00:00:00 - Intro
00:02:00 - What is GIS
00:11:08 - Reference vs Thematic Maps
00:29:42 - What is Spatial Data
00:33:45 - Projection Methods
00:42:44 - Coordinate Reference Systems
00:52:27 - Challenges of Mapping Crime Data in R