khurchla / prison-population-forecaster

Translating the Prison Population Forecaster R script to javascript

Prison Population Forecaster Version 3

Data coverage

All states data is included in this model except the following:

• AR
• CT
• HI
• ID
• VT

Model and Data file organization

/data
	┣━ costs.js ━━━━┓
	┣━ counts.js 	┣━ all these are the result of the data transformations taking place in the /source folder
	┣━ race.js  ━━━━┛
	┗━ /source
		┣━ models/
		┃  	┗━ 2_model_v4.R
		┃  		┗━ Source model for model.js. This R script calculates the projected prison populations, race/ethnicity breakdown, and costs. 
		┣━ final_data_073118/
		┃  	┗━ Source data from research team. Contains the three source data files that are used in r2csv.R to create csvs.
		┣━ r2csv.R
		┃  	┗━ r script that transforms `final_data_073118/*` R data files into csvs. Run this file in the `/dada/source` directory. 
		┣━ reshape_data_counts.py
		┃  	┗━ Reshapes data from counts.csv into counts.json which is then changed to .js Run this file in the `/data/source` directory. 
		┣━ reshape_data_race.py
		┃  	┗━ Reshapes data from race.csv into race.json which is then changed to .js Run this file in the `/data/source` directory.
		┣━ race.csv
		┃  	┗━ intermediate race and ethnicity data file, a result of the `r2csv.R` script. Used in `reshape_data_race.py` to create `../race.js`, a json file with variable heading.
		┣━ counts.csv
		┃ 	┗━ intermediate counts data file, a result of the `r2csv.R` script. Used in `reshape_data_counts.py` to create `../counts.js`, a json file with variable heading.
		┗━ costs.csv
			┗━ intermediate costs data file, a result of the `r2csv.R` script. Transcripted to JSON notation through simple copy/paste/replace batch editing in text editor.