Abstract:
Crimes and criminalities are rampant in various communities across the globe, to the extent that no community is free of at least one of criminal act. In Nigeria like other part of the world, the activities like that of Fulani herdsmen have been leading to many criminal acts, claiming the lives of many innocent Nigerians. This study aims at monitoring crime belt via data visualization using Folium data visualization tool that has ability to superimpose text data on the Chloroplet map. It was used to place the types of crime and the date of the crime on the map as it’s been provided in the dataset at each location where the criminal act of Fulani attacks can be monitored. The result was a simple and precise details of the dataset that shows important information and tells the stories of the dataset in a better way. The results were also clustered and the crime areas were evident in a good perspective and less congestion manner using Folium data visualization tools.
Keywords: Chloroplet map, Crime Data, Data mining, Data science, Data visualization, Folium, Security, Visualization Techniques, Visualization Tools
