This package contains tools for cleaning (primarily) bureaucratic data like court records. These functions are designed to solve problems commonly encountered in the UVA Equity Center's data-cleaning/data-wrangling work, like extracting valid ZIP Codes from addresses, assigning quarters to month/day combinations, correcting spacing errors near punctuation ("SMITH ,JANE" → "SMITH, JANE"), and so on.
Authors:
Jacob Goldstein-Greenwood, Research Data Scientist, UVA Library Research Data Services
Michele Claibourn, Director of Equitable Analysis, The Equity Center at UVA