Starlight and MapObjects for Data Mining of Crime Information

Author: Bruce Rex
Organization: Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

PO Box 999
Richland, WA 99352
USA

Phone: (509)372-6055
Fax: (509)372-6397
db_rex@pnl.gov

Starlight is a unique new visual information analysis system that offers data mining functionality across disparate data sets of multimedia information. Coupled with the MapObjects spatial analytical, statistical, and mapping functionality, a new realm of information analysis and knowledge discovery is enabled. Crime data from Seattle's ArcInfo database is used to exemplify the interaction between these two powerful technologies in a real-world analytic setting.