Scott Barnes pinged me about a really cool rich internet application that is being used on Oakland Crimespotting. The app lets you look at crime data in the city of Oakland and filter out by date and type of crime. There are a few nice features which I think make it stand out.

The first is the way it displays (and lets you manipulate the date). It doesn’t use a calendar, but lays ot the days in chronological order and then graphs it according to the number of incidents. It’s an easy to then click on the most (or least) crime filled day and see the data. You can also move the slider to select multiple days. The other cool thing is that when you hover over a specific type of crime (either on the map or in the key) it will grey out the map except for those types of crime. It makes it easy to focus on a specific crime without removing other data.

Kind of a fun thing to play with on a Friday.

[tags]Oakland, Flash, RIA[/tags]