Month: March 2025

In this week’s session, we explored spatial homogeneity by comparing uniform randomness to Poisson randomness.

In a Uniform Random Pattern, each point has an equal chance of being placed anywhere in the area, and the points are evenly distributed across . Where as in Poisson Random Pattern it is more complex, and the distribution of points may vary across, but it still follows certain statistical rules.

Questions :

• How does economic development correlate with conflict intensity?
• Which sectors of society (students, farmers, workers, political groups) are leading the protests?
• Are there seasonal trends in the occurrence of events? Do certain times of the year have more incidents?

 

In this class, we were introduced to a new dataset, the Armed Conflict Location and Event Data (ACLED), focusing on the regions of India and the USA. I am currently going through this dataset.

Here are some questions:

• Which Indian states or cities have the highest concentration of protests?

• What are the key reasons behind protests recorded in the dataset?

• Which states or regions in India have the highest number of violent events recorded?

• Have violent incidents increased or decreased over the past decade?

 

This week, our team of four successfully completed the Project 1. The project was executed as planned, and all objectives were achieved within the timeline.

 

In our recent class, we discussed the Mahnoor Project.

Our team also discussed the report in detail. We have already started working on the next phase of the project, which involves tackling the following question:

1)identifying regions with similar patterns of police cases based on socio-economic and environmental factors
2)Analyzing how these factors influence cases over time (seasonality in crimes related to temperature)
3)Analyzing how age factors correlate with cases(most affect age groups)
4)identifying per capita income correlate for crime
5)Most cases by a Police station or police .

We have made considerable progress and are currently halfway through.