I wrote a blog post about the connections between the South Carolina legislature and the state circuit court system. I'm not a writer but I was able to dig up some history and connect judges to election candidates via campaign contributions that I scraped from the state's ethic commission. I also FINALLY got to use a Sankey diagram. This one depicts the flow of political campaign contributions from judges and their families to political campaigns in SC.
https://blog.shutdown.network/sc-judiciary-legislature-power/

#scpol #southcarolina #sccourts

Got to a good stopping point for tonight on this topic modeling project. Here's a wordcloud of the most popular words in South Carolina Supreme Court opinions since 1997. I'll share the dataset in the near future! #sccourts #southcarolina #courts #ml #python