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krimelabb – heat maps
2014-07-03 John Daub 1 Comment

krimelabb, a fantastic website for analyzing crime data in the City of Austin, has added “heat maps” to their data visualization tools.

Jack Darby, the man behind krimelabb, shared a few tricks with me about using the website.

One of the best tricks? Use “99999″ as the zip code — that gives you city-wide data. The thing with the heat maps is they are relative to their data set, so when you view a heat map for a small area with little crime, the maps “look bad” because relative to that data set, an incident of 1 is pretty hot. So the heat maps work better in things like viewing crime city-wide — helps put things in better perspective.

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