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

