Data and source code for crime prediction based on POI locations (Manchester, Liverpool, Bournemouth, Wakefield)

This is a collection of datasets and source code used for a crime prediction study based on POI locations.[1] Crime data from data.police.uk for the following UK police forces:-- Greater Manchester Police,-- Merseyside Police,-- Dorset Police,-- West Yorkshire Police.Time span: October 2016--September 2019.License: https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/Format: CVS (zipped).Files: GreaterManchesterPolice.zip MerseysidePolice.zip Dorset Police.zip West Yorkshire Police.zip [2] Data extracts from OpenStreetMap made available by Geofabrik.de forthe following UK counties:-- Greater Manchester,-- Merseyside,-- Dorset,-- West Yorkshire.Data layers: pois, pois_a, transport, transport_a.Downloaded on: November 14, 2019.License: Open Database License 1.0.Format: shapefile (zipped).Files: greater-manchester-latest-free.shp.zip merseyside-latest-free.shp.zip dorset-latest-free.shp.zip west-yorkshire-latest-free.shp.zip[3] UK administrative boundary data from ordnancesurvey.co.uk.Downloaded on: September 23, 2019.License: Open Government License.Note: Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2018Format: shapefile (zipped)File: district_borough_unitary_region.shp.zip[4] Administrative boundary data for the following UK urban areas:-- Manchester (Manchester District),-- Liverpool (Liverpool District),-- Bournemouth (Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole District),-- Wakefield (Wakefield District).Obtained by extracting the corresponding districts from dataset [3] listed above.Format: RDS.File: adm-man-liv-bou-wak.RDS.[5] Crime data aggregated to 300x300m grid for the following UK urban areas:-- Manchester (Manchester District),-- Liverpool (Liverpool District),-- Bournemouth (Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole District),-- Wakefield (Wakefield District).Obtained by geographical aggregation of crime data [1] listed above, limited to the corresponding district boundaries from [3].Format: RDS.File: crime-grid-man-liv-bou-wak.RDS.[6] POI data aggregated to 300x300m grid for the following UK urban areas:-- Manchester (Manchester District),-- Liverpool (Liverpool District),-- Wakefield (Wakefield District),-- Bournemouth (Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole District).Obtained by geographical aggregation of POI data [2] listed above, limited to the corresponding district boundaries from [3].Format: RDS.File: poi-grid-man-liv-bou-wak.RDS.[7] R functions for data preparation.File: crime-poi-functions-data.R.[8] R functions for model creation and evaluation.File: crime-poi-functions-model.R.[9] R script for data preparation.File: crime-poi-data.R.[10] R script for model creation and evaluation.File: crime-poi-model.R.The code assumes that:-- source code files are placed in the current working directory,-- original unprocessed data files [1-3] are placed in the data subdirectory of the current working directory,-- the RDS subdirectory exists in the current working directory (this is where RDS files are saved),-- the Plots subdirectory exists in the current working directory (this is where plot files are saved).The provided RDS files [4-6] may be optionally placed in the RDS subdirectory to avoid repeating the time-consuming data preparation process -- they will be used if available or re-created from the original data otherwise (but the latter may take several hours).