Explaining COMPAS Recidivism Racial Bias

This dataset used in this project is from: https://www.kaggle.com/datasets/danofer/compass?select=cox-violent-parsed_filt.csv

Dataset

Main File

This file contains preprocessing, Random Forest, SHAP and Anchors.

• notebook.ipynb

Exploration Files

The following subsections contain names and links to the files that correlate to them.

There are a lot of files from exploring the data and working with the different models and methods, but the main file is:

• notebook.ipynb.

Exploratory Data Analysis

• EDA.ipynb
• [data analysis.ipynb](data analysis.ipynb)

Random Forest

• OLD_random_forest.py
• RFvsBaseline.ipynb

Anchors

• initial-anchors-notebook-python-3-10.ipynb
• anchors_final.ipynb

Dataset Features

The features that we will include are:

• is_recid (target)
• age
• sex
• race
• juv_fel_count
• juv_misd_count
• juv_other_count
• c_charge_degree
• priors_count

Contributers

• Lara Oriol Cabrera
• Jonas Dauksa
• Eduard Levinschi
• Christos Manaras
• Sarah Swinnen