USING MACHINE LEARNING ALGORITHM TO ANALYZE CRIME DATA

Student: Sarah Oluwaferanmi Olusola
Supervisor: Dr Bosede Faluyi
HOD: Dr Bosede Faluyi
Department of Computer Science
Sciences
Federal Polytechnic, Ado-Ekiti, Ekiti State

Abstract

Thisresearchprojectinvestigatestheapplicationofmachinelearningalgorithmsto analyzecrimedataforpredictivepurposes.Theprojectexploresvariousmachine learning techniques,including decision trees,supportvectormachines,and neural networks,toidentifypatternsandtrendsincrimedatathatcanbeusedtopredictfuture crime occurrences. The project also examines the impact of different data preprocessingandfeatureengineeringtechniquesontheperformanceofmachine learningmodels.Additionally,theprojectexplorestheethicalconsiderationsassociated withtheuseofmachinelearningforcrimeprediction,suchasthepotentialforbiasand discrimination.The findingsofthisresearch projectdemonstrate the potentialof machinelearningalgorithmstoprovidevaluableinsightsintocrimepatternsandtrends, whichcanbeusedtoinform crimepreventionandinterventionstrategies.However,itis importanttoacknowledgeandaddresstheethicalconcernsassociatedwiththeuseof machinelearninginthisdomain. Keywords:Machinelearning,crimeanalysis,crimeprediction,predictivemodeling,data mining,ethicalconsiderations

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