Predicting Terrorist Attacks and Analyzing Crime Incidents in Nigeria Using Machine Learning

Challenge Background

According to Wikipedia, Nigeria is considered to be a country with a high level of crime, ranking 17th among the least peaceful countries in the world, and during the first half of 2022, almost 6,000 people were killed by jihadists, kidnappers, bandits, or the Nigerian army.

Being able to tackle the rate of crime in the country is a big plus to the security of the nation. The ability of the security agency to have a clear understanding of the distribution of different crimes committed and also able to anticipate/predict possible crime outbursts will go a long way to tackling the security challenges of the nation.

The Problem

The problem this project is targeted to solve is to help the security agencies to mitigate the rate of crime committed in the country by giving the security agencies reasonable insight into the distribution of crime committed in Nigeria, and also enable them to anticipate possible crime and location of the crime, in order to be able to make adequate security checks and take the necessary security measures.

Goal of the Project

The major goals of this project are:

• Analyze the crimes committed in Nigeria.
• Build a predictive model to predict the type of crime to be committed in a given time and location.

Project Timeline

What you'll learn

The learning outcomes in this project are data collection, data analysis, predictive supervised machine learning model building, and model deployment.