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Prison and jail facility information
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Ice data #35

Closed nmmarquez closed 3 years ago

nmmarquez commented 3 years ago

Good morning! Added in new ICE.Field.Office column to fac_data so we can help the website team with their new immigration map. Pulled this info from the ice web page and using shortcodes that are used internally in ICE documentation and were ok'd by Josh. Also took this chance to add in some more info about the sex designation of a facility as well as new population numbers from the ICE Detention FY 2021 YTD Report

Updated this new column the README and added the column in the demo google sheet with a data validation process that limits the entries to valid ICE ERO abbreviations.

This PR will need to also have changes to barstools accompanying it, coming shortly.

nmmarquez commented 3 years ago

Works for me, thanks! Out of curiosity, is there a reason you read the csv locally instead of calling read_fac_info()? Don't think it mattered here, but I think the latter might generally be good practice (thinking of the case where you don't pull the latest version from master before making updates, and then you commit a version that undoes the most recent changes).

yup yup good point, I just branched from master but will do this in the future

Also noticed that one ICE facility (ICE HOWARD R YOUNG CORRECTIONAL INSTITUTION) didn't have an office, is there a reason for this? Would that affect anything about how it would show up on the website, etc.?

This facility doesnt have a field office associated with it and isnt mentioned in any of the fiscal reports. I talked with the immigration team and they verified it was a valid facility and different from teh other Howard facility.

And just a small thing: these are 2021 population values, right? Technically we say the Population.Feb20 data is from Feb 2020, so we might want to include a note or something somewhere saying that population data for immigration facilities is from 2021.

These numbers are from first quarter fiscal year 2021 so its supposed to be an estimate of the average daily population between October 1st to December 31st 2020. And yeah I can add a note about this in the data readme similar to HIFLD numbers