2026-05-18
Joining EPA ECHO to HIFLD prison data when the spatial join fails
A fuzzy-join walkthrough for the open issue UCLA's Carceral Ecologies lab is sitting on: matching ~7,000 carceral facilities across federal datasets that share no clean key, no consistent industry code, and a lat/long column full of zipcode centroids.
entity-resolutiongoldenmatchpublic-recordsepa-echocarceral-datapython