bailfund

To fetch dockets in backgrounded batches:

./spawn_batches.sh <start> <end> <batchsize> <year> ./batches.sh

For example:

./spawn_batches.sh 0 10 1000 2018 ./batches.sh

Will extract the first 10,000 dockets (by docket number) from 2018 by spawning 10 parallel background processes.

To fetch court summaries in backgrounded batches:

./spawn_batches.sh <start> <end> <batchsize> <year> ./batches_summaries.sh

Extraction

Using anaconda:

conda env create -f environment.yml
source activate bailfund
jupyter notebook

Visit http://localhost:8888/ and open extract docket.ipynb