Mary Byrd, a sophomore in the College of Business, joined Dr. Ozguven’s lab as part of the Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program (UROP) during the 2017 fall and spring semesters. Dr. Ozguven is an ASAP researcher. Dr. Ozguven’s PhD students Mehmet Baran Ulak and Ayberk Kocatepe mentored her throughout her stay, and taught her the ArcGIS software. Her research topic was: “GIS-based Assessment and Comparison of Crash and Crime Hotspots in the City of Orlando with a Focus on Demographics and Socioeconomics”. She successfully presented her research at the UROP poster presentation session on March 28, 2017. The research objective was (a) to identify the high crash and high crime risk locations (hotspots) in the City of Orlando, and (b) to compare these hotspots with different demographics and socioeconomics with a case study application set in Orlando. For this purpose, six years of crime data and two years of crash data were collected from the City of  Orlando and Florida Department of Transportation, respectively. Based on this data, a three-step GIS-based spatial analysis was proposed to investigate crime and crash characteristics with respect to population demographics and socioeconomics data obtained from US Census. After inputting the crime and crash data into ArcGIS, Local Moran’s method is used to identify and compare the hotspots of both crimes and crashes. This information can be beneficial to citizens, police, and transportation agency personnel in the City of Orlando.