California vanity license plate applications with reasons for rejection

Summary

California license plates Warning: this dataset contains vulgar and offensive language (quite a lot of it). applications.csv is a CSV of 23,463 personalized license plate applications the California DMV received from 2015-2016. These do NOT represent all applications received by the DMV during that timeframe, only applications that were flagged for additional review by the Review Committee. The file includes the following columns: plate : the personalized license plate combination requested. : the personalized license plate combination requested. review_reason_code : Reason code for the application being reviewed (see below for codes). : Reason code for the application being reviewed (see below for codes). customer_meaning : Meaning of the plate provided by the applicant. : Meaning of the plate provided by the applicant. reviewer_comments : from DMV reviewers. : from DMV reviewers. status : Y means the plate was approved, N means it was denied. This data was parsed from a set of 458 Excel workbooks that the DMV prepared for someone else's public records request. I received the files as a consolation prize in response to my own related records request, which I was told would cost $2,000 to fulfill otherwise. Notes In plate combinations, a # character indicates a hand symbol, a $ character indicates the heart symbol, a + character indicates the plus symbol, and a & character indicates the star symbol. character indicates a hand symbol, a character indicates the heart symbol, a character indicates the plus symbol, and a character indicates the star symbol. Some records are missing reason codes, customer meanings, reviewer comments, and/or statuses. A reviewer comment of "No micro" indicates that a paper application was submitted but was unavailable in the DMV's imaging system. In a few cases the reason code is some other character or word besides Y or N , possibly a typo. or , possibly a typo. I tried to redact any records I found that seemed to include too much pers...