Recidiviz / justice-counts-components

A set of React components powering a web app for exploring centralized, standardized metrics on the performance of justice systems across the United States
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Add validation/constraint for statewide incarceration rate calculation #100

Closed hobuobi closed 3 years ago

hobuobi commented 3 years ago

Currently, we do not place any constraint on the month over month values for the Statewide Incarceration Rate. This can result in the The proposed solution would be to create a floor for the % of the population (not % counties) represented in the calculation for any given month; data points below this floor would be omitted from the graph. The floor should be based on realistic numbers, and could be derived in a few ways (non-exhaustive):

hobuobi commented 3 years ago

Update: Chatted with @colincadams and I think we can set an arbitrary floor for this in the meantime (e.g. 10% population covered). We will do more research into the population coverage later and pick a more informed floor!

This ticket should now be actionable!

nasaownsky commented 3 years ago

Closed by #106