Data Science Project 2021/2022

Group F2

Extracting Modus Operandi from court documents

Steps taken in notebook:

• Import all needed libraries

Data Preparation:

• Extract all court convictions from rechtspraak.nl, regarding a search term. These convictions are then put in a DataFrame, with the ID, Text & Date as columns. This takes a very long time
• Load the vehicle file to extract the types and labels.
• Add ruler to pipeline
• Establish list of irrelevant entities & 'prefixes'
• Extract route from court conviction, put into dataframe
• Extract distict vehicles per court case

Similarity, Clustering & Plotting

• Create similarity scores for each document
• Create similarity dataframe
• Plot similarity in heatmap
• Plot clustering in scatterplot
• Plot vehicle count per year