Analyze Crime Data

Data mining and machine learning have become a vital part of crime detection and prevention. In this research, we use WEKA, an open source data mining software, to conduct a comparative study between the violent crime patterns from the Communities and Crime Unnormalized Dataset provided by the University of California-Irvine repository and actual crime statistical data for the state of Mississippi that has been provided by neighborhoodscout.com. We implemented the Linear Regression, Additive Regression, and Decision Stump algorithms using the same finite set of features, on the Communities and Crime Dataset. Overall, the linear regression algorithm performed the best among the three selected algorithms. The scope of this project is to prove how effective and accurate the machine learning algorithms used in data mining analysis can be at predicting violent crime patterns.