The Big Data for Justice Summer Institute is an innovative four-week program designed to develop student’s abilities to critique, analyze, visualize and map big data using Tableau, GIS methods, and other digital technologies. The course emphasizes project-based learning and consists of a series of skill-building workshops and educational seminars as well as fieldwork and lab/studio time focused on issues around criminal justice in Los Angeles. Students will collaborate with community partners to conduct analyses consistent with current on-the-ground advocacy work using data on arrests and bookings by the Los Angeles Police Department and Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department. In order to illustrate and document their work, students will develop an online digital portfolio. Students teams will generate final reports to community partners that visualize data in the form of graphs, charts, maps, and other types of figures as well as a robust write-up explaining the results of the analyses.