Improving Crime Count Forecasts Using Twitter and Taxi Data

09/08/2020
by   Lara Vomfell, et al.
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Crime prediction is crucial to criminal justice decision makers and efforts to prevent crime. The paper evaluates the explanatory and predictive value of human activity patterns derived from taxi trip, Twitter and Foursquare data. Analysis of a six-month period of crime data for New York City shows that these data sources improve predictive accuracy for property crime by 19 using only demographic data. This effect is strongest when the novel features are used together, yielding new insights into crime prediction. Notably and in line with social disorganization theory, the novel features cannot improve predictions for violent crimes.

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