In this post, I will demonstrate loading my criminal activity data into ElasticSearch sot it can be explored, analyzed and visualized in Kibana. For instructions on installing and configuring the Elastic (formerly ELK) Stack, see my previous post. Although this post will specially reference the crime data from my PostgreSQL database, I will include additional…
This post will describe the implementation of the star schema using the “Crime” table from my Criminal Analysis project. The original table represents criminal incidents in Washington DC from 2009 through 2020 (October). The table also has 23 columns, 7 of which are spatial grouping categories. I’ll demonstrate how to decompose the table of data…
pgAdmin is the leading Open Source management tool for Postgres, the world’s most advanced Open Source database. pgAdmin 4 is designed to meet the needs of both novice and experienced Postgres users alike, providing a powerful graphical interface that simplifies the creation, maintenance and use of database objects. https://www.pgadmin.org/docs/pgadmin4/4.28/index.html This post will describe how to…
This post will describe how to install both the PostgreSQL database and the PostGIS geodatabase extension. If you have been following my Criminal Analysis: Data Storage posts then this will be a repeat of information. Installing and Setting up PostgreSQL On a Linux machine, getting PostgreSQL installed and running is pretty easy and straight forward….
In this post I will go over setting up a geospatial database using PostGIS, an extension to PostgreSQL. For information about setting up a PostgreSQL database please refer back to my previous Data Storage. Below is the project plan to ensure I load up all my downloaded map data. Installing and Setting up First you…
Now that we have collected our data, lets work on building a database to store our project data. For this project I have decided to use a PostgreSQL database. The image below provides some planning details to help us implement the database. Installing and Setting up On a Linux machine, getting PostgreSQL installed and running…
