Predicting Safety of U.S. Cities

Project Details

Term: 

2010

Students: 

Elyas Akram, Min Chen, Phuong Le, Bavan Vargese, Fan Zhang

University: 

UMD

Presentation: 

Report: 

Do certain socio-economic factors influence the violent crime rates of cities in the United States, and hence can be used to predict the safety of these cities? The goal of this project is to classify U.S. cities as “safe” or “unsafe” based on expected violent crime rates.

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