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Matt Ashby
ROLE CRIMINOLOGISTMENTIONS 1LAST SEEN AUGUST 21, 2026
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Matt Ashby is an associate professor at the Jill Dando Institute of Security and Crime Science at University College London. He researches how police can use data to reduce crime and is best known for creating the Crime Open Database, a dataset of harmonized open crime data from large US cities, along with the associated crimedata R package. He also maintains the CrimPapers journal-alerts service and the sfhotspot R package for analyzing geographic crime hotspots.
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mention·Our World in Data·AUGUST 21, 2026
“Criminologist Matt Ashby and colleagues created a new dataset that aims to make crime data more comparable across borders.”
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