Racial Bonds

A statistical analysis of pre-trial detention and bail bond practices in Connecticut. Completed as part of the 2020 Ethics4NextGen AI Hackathon.

View our final submission here: williecostello.com/racialbonds

Repository contents:

• data_cleaning.ipynb documents our data cleaning and feature engineering process
• data_exploring.ipynb presents our exploratory data analysis, with visualizations
• data_viz.ipynb includes code for exporting visualizations for final submission
• /webpage includes full code for webpage, adapted from HTML5UP

The dataset for our analysis is the State of Connecticut's "Accused Pre-Trial Inmates in Correctional Facilities". This dataset is updated nightly; the data for our analysis was downloaded on September 19, 2020.