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- Approximately 10 people are shot on an average day in Chicago.
- The 2017 crime rate in Chicago, IL was 508 City Data crime index, which is 1.8 times greater than the U.S. average.
- Chicago was higher than in 95.3% U.S. cities. The 2017 Chicago crime rate is about the same compared to 2016. The number of homicides stood at 653 - a decrease of 112 compared to 2016.
- The Chicago metro area saw its poverty rate drop to 12.4% in 2016 from 13.3% the year before, according to American Community Survey data released by the U.S. Census Bureau.
- Meanwhile, median household income increased 3.2% in the Chicago metro area to $66,020.
- Collected socioeconomic parameters such as unemployment rates, salary rates to compare them with crime rates in Chicago.
- Scraped the data from Chicago Police Department Website and Chicago Data Portal using python and merged data into an SQL database.
- Created a multilayer geo-map that will toggle between unemployment, poverty rates and crime statistics for the city of Chicago.
- Created interactive plotly bar and bubble charts.
- http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/data/ct-shooting-victims-map-charts-htmlstory.html http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/ct-chicago-homicides-data-tracker-htmlstory.html
- http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/ct-homicide-victims-2017-htmlstory.html
- Python, API, HTML/CSS, JavaScript, postgres, GoogleMaps, Sql, Geomaps, Heroku, ETL