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The Great SCOTUS Data Wrangle, Part 4: Background and Chronological Variables
Who’s ready to delve deeper into the Supreme Court Database?
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The Great SCOTUS Data Wrangle, Part 3: Case Identifiers and Names
Welcome back for more data wrangling! Last time I looked over the remaining features I’m interested in using from the Supreme Court Database for an upcoming project. We outlined a general approach to the remaining preprocessing work before us and used
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The Great SCOTUS Data Wrangle, Part 2: Missing Values from on High
Happy Belated New Year! I’m back, vaccinated, and eager to drudge through old Supreme Court opinions!
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The Great SCOTUS Data Wrangle, Part 1: A First Look at the Supreme Court Database
In an upcoming post, I’ll be answering a question posed on the Opening Arguments podcast to their mathematician/data-oriented listeners about voting behavior on the U.S. Supreme Court. (If you’re unfamiliar with OA, check it out! It’s a phenomenal resource for laypeople interested in the law.) I’ll save the details for the follow-up post, but the question requires knowing the voting record of SCOTUS justices or, at very least, the distribution of majority and minority votes in all SCOTUS rulings from the last fifty years.