Title
Mirante: A visualization tool for analyzing urban crimes
Date Issued
01 November 2020
Access level
metadata only access
Resource Type
conference paper
Author(s)
Garcia-Zanabria G.
Silveira J.
Nery M.
Adorno S.
Nonato L.G.
Universidad de Saõ Paulo
Fundación Getulio Vargas
Publisher(s)
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Abstract
Visualization assisted crime analysis tools used by public security agencies are usually designed to explore large urban areas, relying on grid-based heatmaps to reveal spatial crime distribution in whole districts, regions, and neighborhoods. Therefore, those tools can hardly identify micro-scale patterns closely related to crime opportunity, whose understanding is fundamental to the planning of preventive actions. Enabling a combined analysis of spatial patterns and their evolution over time is another challenge faced by most crime analysis tools. In this paper, we present Mirante, a crime mapping visualization system that allows spatiotemporal analysis of crime patterns in a street-level scale. In contrast to conventional tools, Mirante builds upon street-level heatmaps and other visualization resources that enable spatial and temporal pattern analysis, uncovering fine-scale crime hotspots, seasonality, and dynamics over time. Mirante has been developed in close collaboration with domain experts, following rigid requirements as scalability and versatile to be implemented in large and medium-sized cities. We demonstrate the usefulness of Mirante throughout case studies run by domain experts using real data sets from cities with different characteristics. With the help of Mirante, the experts were capable of diagnosing how crime evolves in specific regions of the cities while still being able to raise hypotheses about why certain types of crime show up.
Start page
148
End page
155
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Geografía económica y cultural
Subjects
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85099567021
Source
Proceedings
Resource of which it is part
Proceedings
ISBN of the container
978-172819274-1
Conference
33rd SIBGRAPI Conference on Graphics, Patterns and Images, SIBGRAPI 2020
Sponsor(s)
ACKNOWLEDGMENT This work was supported by CNPq-Brazil (#303552/2017-4 and #312483/2018-0), CAPES-Brazil (#10242771), São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP)-Brazil ( #2013/07375-0, #2019/10560-0, #2017/05416-1, and #2019/04434-1), Núcleo de Estudo da Violência (NEV-USP),and Getulio Vargas Foundation. The views expressed are those of the authors and do not reflect the official policy or position of the FAPESP.
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