Submitted by Space-Time Research.
http://howsafeisyoursuburb2-0.appspot.com/
How Safe is Your Suburb 2.0 provides a snapshot of NSW Crime data (2001 - 2008) with a variety of interactive analysis and visualization tools. The vision for this application is for it to host a comprehensive set of NSW crime data in the future. A subset of data was chosen for this competition to showcase the potential of such an application.
Space-Time Research has expanded their the original How Safe Is Your Suburb application (for the Mashup Australia Competition in 2009) to enter into the apps4NSW Competition.
How Safe Is Your Suburb 2.0 includes metadata to help explain the complexity of the data and ensure that the user of data is well informed of data quality issues. It contains enhanced collaboration - saved views can be shared with over 250 social networking applications. It also provides more advanced visualisation (side by side pie charts). This version includes population data from the 2006 Population census, and analysis can be based on raw numbers of offences or on the rate of offences per 100,000 people. This allows for more powerful comparison of data based on population per suburb.
This application will allow the NSW Bureau of Crime Statistics to safely share their data with the public. It will enable the public to gain greater awareness and insight into crime statistics in Local Government Areas (suburbs) in New South Wales by using an interactive analysis and visualization tool rather than referring to a hard copy report. Users will start to ask more complex questions of the data, and will be able to better understand the meaning of the statistics produced and how the statistics can be applied to their lives.
The tool can be used by residents, local governments, state and federal government, researchers, non-government agencies, and crime and policy makers - any consumer of the NSW crime reports.
The data used is a sub-set (from the years 2001 - 2008) of the Recorded Crime Dataset provided by the Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research.
Count of population from 2006 Census of Population and Housing - Place of Usual Residence - LGAs
Both of these datasets are available in the public domain.
Please note: we are aware that we could do more with the data. There are a few inconsistencies between LGA classifications between the NSW and ABS data (e.g. there is *not* an LGA for prisons) and in theory, calculating % crime per head of population against just one standard year of population data is incorrect. So the numbers will not be identical to those you see in published reports. If this were a production application we would spend more time getting the data perfect.
SuperVIEW applications are designed to be easy enough to be used as to not require instructions. Metadata and useful information are provided within the application itself.
Simply follow the URL, choose a view and make selections and see the results change.
Browser Support:
This application is best viewed in Chrome or Firefox 3.5. Support for IE and other browsers will be provided in due course. IE6 is not supported.
Flash is required.