Author: Swaminathan Ramesh Sashi

1. Introduction

Data visualization is a useful tool to analyze exploratory data and display the results. This article attempts to explain a few data visualization exercises which aim to analyze a composite dataset consisting of 911-phone records as well as the subsequent police report filings.

2. Analysis

2.1 Software used

Tableau 9.2 and Excel.

2.2 Dataset

The dataset consists of the following variables derived from the website of UW Madison Police Department:
Incident number (a unique id), incident date, incident time, location, zip codes, significance, incident description, and incident type. The dataset includes data from the years 2012-2015.… Read more