Cracking City Crime with Big Data: A Fresh Look

City safety is super important for planning and growing cities. In the past, we only used basic details about people to study city crimes. This wasn't enough to understand the complex and changing nature of crimes. Today, big data is changing the game. We can gather and mix a lot of detailed info from cities, phones, and public services. This data includes clues about crimes and lots of other helpful insights about the environment and society. Big data opens up new ways to learn about city crimes. Plus, criminology theories help us understand why people commit crimes and the intricate patterns of crime in cities. These theories can help us link the data we have to what we want to know about city crimes. They also guide us in creating computer models to study crimes. Let's explore some key crime theories, understand how we analyze city crime data, review recent computer algorithms for various crime tasks, and discuss exciting research areas that could revolutionize how we study city crimes.