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Dashboard Week Day 2: Australia’s Feeling of Safety

This post was originally published on The Data School blog between 2018 and July 2025, before our program was renamed to MIP’s Analytics Career Accelerator. References throughout this article to “The Data School” or “DS” all refer to what is now MIP’s Analytics Career Accelerator. The program, its people, and its commitment to launching outstanding analytics careers remain the same – just under a new name.

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Hi Everyone, as part of Dashboard week we were given the option to choose a topic from Australian Crime Statistics. The Australian Bureau of Statistics has a huge amount of data to download on all types of Crime & Justice topics.

To start I downloaded all the data available on this topic and opened it in Alteryx. As most of these available files are already reports and not raw data, there’s a lot of data transformation to be done.

After getting all the data in a format to be able to work in PowerBI I started creating charts to mainly see the Women’s feeling of Safety alone after dark.

 

 

The general feeling of safety had increased positively over the years for most states for women, while the chances of women not walking alone due to being afraid had decreased.

The analysis shows that mostly women feel unsafe while walking or don’t even walk alone at dark. On the other hand the only Situation where Male feeling of safety increases considerably is when walking alone after dark.

 

Novy Pro – General feelings of safety in Australia

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