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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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Census population fixes #26

Closed brancengregory closed 3 years ago

brancengregory commented 3 years ago

Closes #21

rcgentzler commented 3 years ago

I appreciate the different options here and understand the desire to capture more nuance, but the results from this function will be hard to merge with data pulled from sources that don't distinguish between race and ethnicity. The racial categories in DOC and jail data include Hispanic, for instance, and we want to be able to easily match that with a population number for the county or state - we've used Hispanic of any race for that and non-Hispanic populations for each race. We should definitely develop some language that explains the limitations of the data we get and acknowledges the inadequacy of our current picture of race and ethnicity in public records.

brancengregory commented 3 years ago

Very good points, and thanks the explainer. I will give this some thought. I agree that such a document should exist.

brancengregory commented 3 years ago

In the meantime I can separate the county_demographics function into a branch of it's own, that way we can merge the county_population function if it looks good