Malik et al.: Predictive Visual Analytics for Community Policing and Law Enforcement

Abish Malik , Ross Maciejewski , Sherry Towers , Sean McCullough, and David Ebert are scheduled to present a paper entitled Proactive Spatiotemporal Resource Allocation and Predictive Visual Analytics for Community Policing and Law Enforcement , at IEEE VIS 2014, being held 9-14 November in Paris.

A video preview of the paper has been posted at: http://ift.tt/10SPUoP

Here is the abstract:

In this paper, we present a visual analytics approach that provides decision makers with a proactive and predictive environment in order to assist them in making effective resource allocation and deployment decisions. The challenges involved with such predictive analytics processes include end-users’ understanding, and the application of the underlying statistical algorithms at the right spatiotemporal granularity levels so that good prediction estimates can be established. In our approach, we provide analysts with a suite of natural scale templates and methods that enable them to focus and drill down to appropriate geospatial and temporal resolution levels. Our forecasting technique is based on the Seasonal Trend decomposition based on Loess (STL) method, which we apply in a spatiotemporal visual analytics context to provide analysts with predicted levels of future activity. We also present a novel kernel density estimation technique we have developed, in which the prediction process is influenced by the spatial correlation of recent incidents at nearby locations. We demonstrate our techniques by applying our methodology to Criminal, Traffic and Civil (CTC) incident datasets.

Filed under: Applications, Articles and papers, Methodology, Research findings Tagged: Abish Malik, David S. Ebert, IEEE VIS, IEEE VIS 2014, Predictive analytics, Predictive law enforcement, Predictive policing, Quantitative legal prediction, Ross Maciejewski, Sean McCullough, Sherry Towers, Statistical methods in legal informatics, Visual analytics, Visual predictive analytics, Visualization of legal information



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