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openjusticeok / ojodb

OJO's R package for opening the black box of our justice system
https://openjusticeok.github.io/ojodb/
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Draft fee function revision #131

Closed brancengregory closed 5 months ago

brancengregory commented 1 year ago

@andrewjbe Could you give me a little info on these functions and what you know of their methodology and limitations? It looks like it has been over a year so no worries if you don't remember, just gathering as much info as possible.

andrewjbe commented 1 year ago

IIRC, the ojo_fee_filter() and ojo_pay_filter() functions were used to filter out common things that Ryan didn't want us to look at for fines and fees (mainly incarceration costs, bond forfeiture, common data entry errors, and stuff like that). The ojo_fee_translate() thing was an attempt at making a big lookup table that would have clean minute descriptions for all the common codes / etc.

We should probably have functions like this, but I think it would be good if we got everyone together to talk over exactly what they should look like methodologically, etc. instead of just going with what Ryan did.