OzCrime

Most platforms that deal with crime data make the same mistake: they treat the statistics as the product. A figure on a chart doesn't communicate much on its own; it doesn't tell you what happened, where, or what it means for the suburb you're about to move into.

OzCrime was built around a different premise entirely. The statistics are there, kept current in real time; but they sit alongside the actual stories, the incidents that give those numbers their weight. That combination is what makes the platform useful rather than merely informative.

The technical work that made it possible centres on two things: a real-time data pipeline capable of ingesting and normalising at scale without losing fidelity; and an AI layer that does the connective tissue work, surfacing patterns, flagging what's shifting, and making the platform legible to someone who isn't a criminologist.