Take it in Bits: Using R to Make Eviction Data Accessible to the Legal Aid Community
summary
Civil Court Data Initiative standardizes court records with R, SQL and AWS, linking RMarkdown with Amazon Athena and EC2 to auto-generate weekly eviction reports for 20 states; one clear finding is ~12% of Virginia renter households face eviction filings. The pipeline replaces ad hoc spreadsheets with automated memos produced every Monday, cuts analyst time, provokes targeted data requests, forces team growth, and increases legal aid access while keeping raw disaggregate data private for security and privacy.
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chapters (6)
- 0:00Civil court data initiative
- 3:16Court data standardization
- 6:31Data sharing challenges
- 10:23Automated data memos
- 13:55Improved data accessibility
- 17:03Recap and next steps
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