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The impact of using social media data in crime rate calculations: shifting hot spots and changing sp...

The impact of using social media data in crime rate calculations: shifting hot spots and changing sp...

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The impact of using social media data in crime rate calculations: shifting hot spots and changing spatial patterns

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The impact of using social media data in crime rate calculations: shifting hot spots and changing spatial patterns

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Taylor & Francis

Journal title

Cartography and geographic information science, 2015-03, Vol.42 (2), p.112-121

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English

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Taylor & Francis

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Contents

Crime rate is a statistic used to summarize the risk of criminal events. However, research has shown that choosing the appropriate denominator is non-trivial. Different crime types exhibit different spatial opportunities and so does the population at risk. The residential population is the most commonly used population at risk, but is unlikely to b...

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The impact of using social media data in crime rate calculations: shifting hot spots and changing spatial patterns

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TN_cdi_crossref_primary_10_1080_15230406_2014_905756

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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/TN_cdi_crossref_primary_10_1080_15230406_2014_905756

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1523-0406

E-ISSN

1545-0465

DOI

10.1080/15230406.2014.905756

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