Ed Rogers<p>Ariana Mendible is sharing a great talk, "Small Town Police Accountability: A Data Science Toolkit" here at <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/SciPy2023" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SciPy2023</span></a>. Her group has created a great package to help researchers parse the output of FOIA (Freedom Of Information Act) requests, using <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/OCR" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OCR</span></a>, <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/NLP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NLP</span></a>, and <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/Python" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Python</span></a>. The library, called SToPA, is available on GitHub: <a href="https://github.com/qsideinstitute/SToPA" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">github.com/qsideinstitute/SToP</span><span class="invisible">A</span></a><br>More on the talk here: <a href="https://cfp.scipy.org/2023/talk/AXPZZG/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">cfp.scipy.org/2023/talk/AXPZZG</span><span class="invisible">/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/SciPy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SciPy</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/Policing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Policing</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/CivicData" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CivicData</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/DataScience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DataScience</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/FOIA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FOIA</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/Police" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Police</span></a> <br><span class="h-card"><a href="https://chirp.social/@scipy2023" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>scipy2023</span></a></span></p>