The Data: The Swiss Federal Supreme Court Dataset (SCD) is the largest open-access dataset on Swiss judgments, with 31 variables documenting all 120,368 Federal Supreme Court judgments between 2007 and 2023. 🔥 It is available in its fifth edition already, and now also includes the raw text of all judgments.

With this challenge, we want to explore new ways to enable anyone to interact with this rich data, even if they have zero prior programming knowledge.

At last year's Open Legal Lab, we designed and released the SCD Viewer, a Shiny webapp which lets users interact with the data on Swiss Federal Supreme Court judgments and run simple analyses themselves.

Can we go further this year? What new and exciting ways to interact with this data will we come up with?

• ✨ Automatic monthly recap of the latest jurisprudence?
• ⚡️ Dashboard that highlights interesting new trends in the data?
• 💫 Upgrade the SCD Viewer to be 10x better and 100x faster?
• 🌟 Something else entirely? It's up to you!

🎯 Goal of the challenge

Enable new ways to interact with the Federal Supreme Court jurisprudence documented in the SCD.

🚀 Roadmap

• [x] Collect data
• [ ] Define user journey
• [ ] Create and deploy product
• [ ] Prepare presentation