In this exercise, all three tools will be used to obtain descriptive spatial statistics about crime data for the city of Denver.
Let's get prepared for obtaining spatial statistical information about a dataset using ArcGIS, as follows:
- In
ArcMap, open theC:GeospatialTrainingSpatialStatsDenverCrime.mxdfile. You should see a point feature class calledCrime, as shown in the following screenshot:
Point locations for all crimes for the city of Denver 2013
- The
Crimefeature class contains point locations for all crimes for the city of Denver in 2013. The first thing we need to do is isolate a type of crime for our analysis. Open the attribute table for the crime feature class.
- Use the
Select by Attributes...tool to select all records where theOFFENSE_CATEGORY_ID ='burglary'method, as shown in the following screenshot. This will select 25,743 burglaries from the dataset. These are burglaries within the city limits of Denver in 2013:
- Close the attribute...