The Toronto Police Service (TPS) is undergoing continuous improvement efforts to enhance confidence and strengthen ties with our society by providing access to open data for public safety in Toronto. The Service would like students to research and develop correlation models for the Homicides and Assault data* available on the Toronto Police Service’s Public Safety Data Portal (PSDP) and a comparable city’s open data portal in Canada or US, in order to conduct:

The Service would like students to explore and derive insights from the Major Crime Indicators (MCI) dataset in conjunction with at least one other open data set of their choice, for instance 311, City of Toronto, or other open dataset they find interesting and relevant. Ideally, students would:

1) Derive insights and patterns, especially regarding potential relationships between variables, such as demographics, unemployment rates, period of the day and year, other crimes and socio-economic trends, and the comparison of tendencies between cities

2) Build predictive analytics models

3) Perform hot-spot mapping

4) Deliver a final report and/or presentation of findings and recommendations

Potential Open Datasets:

https://data.cityofchicago.org/Public-Safety/Crimes-2001-to-present/ijzp-q8t2

https://data.cityofnewyork.us/Public-Safety/NYC-crime/qb7u-rbmr

https://www.toronto.ca/city-government/data-research-maps/open-data/