This interactive visualization created using Tableau presents information about decades of crime data across the United States. This interactive dashboard provides options to either view Property crimes or Violent crimes. In addition, this dashboard provides flexibility to the users in interacting the data. This dashboard consists of 3 charts:
- A heat map with different shades of violet indicating the severity of the crime rate in each state.
- A line chart indicating the different crime rates across time starting in the 1960s to 2012 for each state.
- A scatterplot of crime rates versus state population.
Things I liked:
- All 3 charts are interconnected and when one particular state or line graph is selected all the chart shows information about that state.
- The crime rate versus population chart gives the users a deeper understanding where users can identify states which have low population but high crime rates.
- In the line graph, users can select one state and hover over the others to give an indication of difference.
Things that can be improved:
- Holistically the first graph provides a lot of insights into the data without having to filter different states. But the line graph is on a whole quite clumsy and doesn’t convey information without filtering.
Reference: https://public.tableau.com/en-us/s/gallery/50-years-crime-us