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Using R to make Freedom of Information requests

Posted on April 22, 2017 By Rob
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Like other departments the Ministry of Justice publishes spending data worth more than £25,000. It does this both for itself and for its executive agencies like the National Offender Management Service (NOMS) which runs the prison system. It does this monthly. A typical spreadsheet looks like this in R: dec <- read.csv(“noms-spend-december-2016.csv”) str(dec) ‘data.frame’: 14006 obs. … Read More “Using R to make Freedom of Information requests” »

Overcrowding in prison

Posted on January 6, 2017January 8, 2017 By Rob
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It’s been a rocky few months for the prison system in England and Wales. In December there was a riot at HMP Birmingham that lasted around 12 hours. Authorities had to send in Tornado teams to restore order. The bill for getting the prison back to normal, including moving inmates to other prisons and replacing locks, … Read More “Overcrowding in prison” »

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