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jeffrey-kissel / blacklivesmatter

Creating infographics to in hopes to better disseminate data reporting the history of Black Americans
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Download and commit all the data to this repo #4

Closed jeffrey-kissel closed 4 years ago

jeffrey-kissel commented 4 years ago

Grabbed and committed 2018 from

https://www.bjs.gov/content/pub/sheets/p18.zip

Now lives in

https://github.com/jeffrey-kissel/blacklivesmatter/tree/master/prisons/data/bjsrawdata/p2018

jeffrey-kissel commented 4 years ago

Grabbed and committed 2008 from

https://www.bjs.gov/content/pub/sheets/p08.zip

Now lives in

https://github.com/jeffrey-kissel/blacklivesmatter/tree/master/prisons/data/bjsrawdata/p2008

jeffrey-kissel commented 4 years ago

Grabbed and committed 1998 from

https://www.bjs.gov/content/pub/sheets/p98.zip

Now lives in

https://github.com/jeffrey-kissel/blacklivesmatter/tree/master/prisons/data/bjsrawdata/p1998

jeffrey-kissel commented 4 years ago

It looks like the BJS website only started publishing the data in the table in the reports in 1998. Will probably have to (ugh) transcribe the earlier reports. But -- willing to do it, if shows a bigger picture. Closing this issue, and will open a separate one for transcribing the data.