Ruby: Visualizing United States Jail Data by Race and State.

JAIL DATA!

Data is from
National Archive of Criminal Justice Data
http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/icpsrweb/NACJD/studies/33722

Use the dataset’s cookbook file to make sense of specific headers
states are coded as number, create a hash for all numbers

Create a hash table for each race with the State as the Key. Then Parse the file, and populate each hash with the inmate count.

Export JSON in GoogleCharts Acceptable format

Here’s a Stacked Column Chart

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