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Moves on the Street: Classifying Crime Hotspots Using Aggregated Anonymized Data on People Dynamics

This paper highlights the potential societal benefits derived from big data applications with a focus on citizen safety and crime prevention. Authors detail a case study tackling the problem of crime hotspot classification, that is, the classification of which areas in a city are more likely to witness crimes based on past data. In the proposed approach demographic information is used along with human mobility characteristics as derived from anonymized and aggregated mobile network data.

Moves on the Street: Classifying Crime Hotspots Using Aggregated Anonymized Data on People Dynamics

Author(s): 
Andrey Bogomolov, Bruno Lepri, Jacopo Staiano, Emmanuel Letouzé, Nuria Oliver, Alex "Sandy" Pentland, Fabio Pianesi

September 2015

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