NY Prison Population: Part II

[snajmabadi]

Datasets:

• https://data.ny.gov/Public-Safety/Inmates-Under-Custody-Beginning-2008/55zc-sp6m
• https://catalog.data.gov/dataset/jail-population-by-county-beginning-1997

I intend to expand on my project from two weeks ago about NY's prison inmate population, particularly focusing on if there is a difference between the most serious crime men are in prison for versus women. I'll also take a look at which counties indict the most prisoners in comparison to where most jails and prisons are located (represented on a map, probably). Finally, I'd like to take more of a look at change over time (or the last 8 years at least) and see if there have been any marked changes in that time regarding how many men/women are in prison, which counties indict the most, and the most serious charge most of those men/women are in for. I may combine this last idea with the data in the second dataset, which contains records of jail population by county since 1977.

Possible headlines could include:

"x county indicts the most prisoners; y county houses the most" "most men in New York prisons are there for x; women for y"

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[playfairbot]

Hi there, I'm the Playfair Bot! Would you mind posting the appropriate checklist in the main body of your issue? You might have posted it as the first comment, but it turns out it works way better in the actual body of the issue. Thanks! :pray:

[kbennion]

This dataset is so interesting! I really liked looking at your previous visualizations, especially the one divided by gender. For your jail/imprisoned population comparison, have you considered doing two y-axes? One as overall jail numbers, the other as a percentage of the whole. Then you can include both lines on the same graph.

example:

[snajmabadi]

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[mercye]

it would be interesting to see the scatter plot point, scaled according to population -- so that it was easier to understand why a county might be sending 100 people to prison or no people to prison

[playfairbot]

Closing since pull request #229 has been accepted