Making Public Safety Data Accessible in the Westside Atlanta Data Dashboard

• DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.1609.09756
• Publication Date: 2016-01-01
• Authors: Katie A. O’Connell; Yeji Lee; Firaz Peer; Shawn Staudaher; Alex Godwin; Mackenzie Madden; Ellen Zegura
• Keywords: Dashboard; Atlanta

Individual neighborhoods within large cities can benefit from independent analysis of public data in the context ongoing efforts to improve community. Yet existing tools for and visualization are often mismatched community needs, reasons including geographic granularity that does not correspond boundaries, siloed sets, inaccurate assumptions about literacy, limited user input design implementation phases. In Atlanta this need is being addressed through a Data Dashboard developed under auspices Westside Communities Alliance (WCA), partnership between Georgia Tech stakeholders. paper we present an interactive analytic tool safety WCA Dashboard. We describe human-centered approach understand needs users build accessible mapping analysis. The include variety overlays allow spatially correlate features built environment, such as vacant properties with criminal activity well crime prevention efforts. final stages developing first version tool, plans release fall 2016.