Crime in Los Angeles

This dashboard uses the following datasets:
- Crime Data from 2020 to Present
  - created and uploaded by the LAPD
  - retrieved on August 19, 2024 from data.gov
  - hosted by data.lacity.org
- Arrest Data from 2020 to Present
  - created and uploaded by the LAPD
  - retrieved on August 27, 2024 from data.gov
  - hosted by data.lacity.org
- Below Poverty (census tract)
  - created and uploaded by Shannon Julius
  - retrieved on August 21, 2024 from geohub.lacity.org
  - hosted by geohub.lacity.org
The Crime Data and Arrest Data datasets were processed using pandas and GeoPandas to obtain aggregated statistics for each census tract in the City of Los Angeles.
The census tract boundaries were extracted from the Below Poverty dataset.
The maps and graphs were created using Plotly’s Python library.
The dashboard itself was created using Shiny for Python and Quarto.