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California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo

2013

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Geographic Information Systems Analysis Of Crime In San Luis Obispo For 2012, Eric Delorme Jun 2013

Geographic Information Systems Analysis Of Crime In San Luis Obispo For 2012, Eric Delorme

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The research and final project that I plan to do will be composed of a few different parts. I will be taking crime report data from the city of San Luis Obispo and analyzing it with GIS software. The data will be from the most recent reported calendar year. I will be looking at the data spatially so that I can compare the areas of the city in which crime is most prevalent. I will be creating multiple maps which will be looking individually at different types of crime, such as violent crimes, burglary and theft, assault and battery, sex …