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Release: 0.1.0

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0.1.0 - 2026-10-22

  • Computed the Judicial Common Space score of every appointment of a federal
    judge who served since 1953 (the first year of Epstein et al.'s study),
    from the Federal Judicial Center's
    Biographical Directory, Voteview's DW-NOMINATE scores, the dates of
    senators' service, and the Martin-Quinn scores
  • Saved the scores in a spreadsheet with both of the center's numbers for
    each judge (nid and jid)
  • Checked the scores against the published JCS scores of circuit judges and
    justices and Christina Boyd's scores of district judges
  • Added the judicial-common-space command
  • Found the home states of circuit judges whose careers show none from their
    duty stations in Wikipedia's articles on the courts of appeals, and added
    the duty_station column
  • Added --use-published, which uses Epstein et al.'s or Boyd's score where
    it differs from the computed one by more than 0.05 (--published-threshold),
    and the computed_jcs and jcs_source columns
  • Explained every score that differs from the published ones by more than
    0.05 in the README
  • Removed private names from the modules' documentation
  • Added citations to Boyd, Epstein et al., and Giles et al. and a
    CITATION.cff