2021 Datathon Kickoff: Exploring Judicial Patterns

Join us for a 6-week datathon focused on exploring judicial patterns in Philadelphia courts! We have partnered with the Judge Accountability Table (JAT; https://judgeaccountabilitytable.org/about/) to help them explore, stratify, and visualize a complex dataset related to public court dockets for defendants in Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania. We will be working on a deidentified subset of these data in order to:

• better understand the judicial system through data
• hone our data science and R skills (there will be ways to contribute for people of all levels of experience with R)
• get our hands dirty and our heads spinning with rich and messy real-world data (spoiler alert: we will not be analyzing sepal.length and petal.width)
• work together, network, and make (new) friends in the data world!
• have fun nerding out together over data :)

The repository for the datathon can be found here:
https://github.com/rladiesPHL/2021_datathon

Approximate Agenda:

6:10 - 6:55: Introduction to R-Ladies Philly and our datathons; JAT presentation to contextualize the problem and the research needs; Q&A with JAT
6:55 - 7:00 Break
7:00 - 7:20 Logistics & Data Overview
7:20 - 8:00 Breakout into rooms, work kickoff

How to prepare:

• make sure you have Zoom version 5.3 or higher (required for breakout rooms!)
• install R & Rstudio (https://rstudio-education.github.io/hopr/starting.html)
• set up a GitHub account (https://github.com/join) and familiarize yourself with Git concepts (https://happygitwithr.com/index.html)
• join the R-Ladies Philly slack (https://bit.ly/join-rladies-slack-2020) and then join the #2021_datathon channel

See you there!