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The think tank RAND reports “CAST is quite impressive. Because no known program offers the capabilities in CAST, crime analysts may find this geospatial software tool a valuable addition to their toolkit.” It has been used in top universities, including Harvard, MIT, etc.

Software Highlights

Cross-PlatformsMac OS X, Windows XP/Vista/7, Ubuntu

Less dependenciesFree installation software

Plugins framework integratedFunction/module level code reuseEasy to extend GUI design

Exploratory Data Analysis

Robbery Incidents, Heatmap, PercentileMap

Robbery Incidents, Heatmap and LISA Cluster Map

Dynamic Density Maps

Dynamic Cluster Maps

Calendar Map

Dynamic Calendar Map

Dynamic Trend Map

LISA Markov Maps

Acknowledgments

This project was supported by Award No. 2009-SQ-B9-K101 awarded by the National Institute of Justice, Office of Justice Programs, U.S. Department of Justice. The opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this publication are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect those of the Department of Justice.