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Data analyst shows correlations between transit, encampments and concentrated incidents in Farmers Branch
Summary
A spatial analysis presented to the Farmers Branch council mapped police incident data and found visual correlations between transit stops, homeless encampments and concentrations of assaults and robberies; the presenter proposed exploring microtransit routing and additional local analysis.
Alan Gwynn, a data analyst working with city incident data, told the council the city’s geocoded police records reveal spatial concentrations that merit further study.
Gwynn explained his method: ‘‘I take addresses where you have incident data, turn it into latitude and longitude because when you do that, then all of a sudden you can populate it on a map and you can include all sorts of other things.’’ Using five years of Dallas data and Farmers Branch incident records, he overlaid DART stations, bus lines, homeless encampments and…
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