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Mapping Crime Data in R: Live code demonstration

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Dates:16 February 2024
Times:11:00 - 13:00
What is it:Workshop
Organiser:Cathie Marsh Institute for Social Research
How much:Free
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Do you want to display crime data on maps but don’t know how? 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 these free workshops come in. The aim of the workshops is to teach participants to use the R statistical and graphical environment to map open-source police recorded crime statistics onto geographic representations.

This is the second of two free Mapping crime data in R workshops. The first session will cover some fundamental theories and concepts surrounding GIS and spatial data. This session will be a live code demonstration using R to explore these concepts.

Prerequisites:

This workshop is suitable for intermediate (or higher) users of R but there is no need to have experience with GIS software or spatial data. Users should be comfortable with how to set the working directory in R, how to read in data, how to write basic R functions and how to save scripts and output files.

Level: (higher) intermediate

Experience of R: Yes. R and Rstudio must be already installed and working

Knowledge of GIS/Spatial Data: None

Target audience: Researchers/anyone interested in crime and spatial data

Coding material and further instructions will be available mid-January via our GitHub page

Presenter: Nadia Kennar

Price: Free

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