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Crime Analytics & Predictions Labs for Wilfrid Laurier University

A hands-on lab that enables law enforcement officers to understand how to work with data to observe analytical and predictive outcomes.

Working with these labs, the students will:

  1. Start with preprocessed data that is ready for analytics and predictions.
  2. Understand the available data sets, their schema, and their typical usages.
  3. Learn how multiple data sets, like Crime and Weather data, can be stitched together to give better insights and crime predictions.
  4. Visualize the data in intuitive dashboards.
  5. See correlations, insights, and predictions on these dashboards.