Crime Visualization of San Francisco

Post by dzuc » Thu, Jul 29, 2010, 1:40 PM UTC

bkrausz wrote: post #10

ericd wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Good point. It currently needs to be precomputed as images, so it's hard to make it customizable, but it probably makes sense to make a category of unsavory crimes. I would assume that most people dislike living near the same types of crime.

How are you precomputing the images? I thought GMaps provided a way to input data and get a heatmap, but apparently I'm mistaken.

Post by hugh3 » Thu, Jul 29, 2010, 3:29 PM UTC

stretchwithme wrote: post #55

that is excellent. There's a 20 block area that is the reddest zone in the city and my guess is that's the Tenderloin. I wonder what impact an intense cleaning would have on the crime rate there. And enforcement of simple things like public urination laws. And maybe some decent bathrooms. I recall the kind of things New York did to restore a sense of order. Malcolm Gladwell talked about them in the Tipping Point. Sur…

Post by stretchwithme » Fri, Jul 30, 2010, 8:40 AM UTC

hugh3 wrote: post #63

stretchwithme wrote: post #55

that is excellent. There's a 20 block area that is the reddest zone in the city and my guess is that's the Tenderloin. I wonder what impact an intense cleaning would have on the crime rate there. And enforcement of simple things like public urination laws. And maybe some decent bathrooms. I recall the kind of things New York did to restore a sense of order. Malcolm Gladwell talked about them in the Tipping Point. Sur…

Most definitely, but you'll never get a Rudy Giuliani figure elected as mayor of San Francisco, at least not in the foreseeable future. My prediction: sometime in the next 30 years the tech industry will have drifted elsewhere, and San Franscisco will be the new Detroit. Right now it's a mixture of the sublime and the awful, but the sublime can always pack up and move to Portland/Austin/Seattle.