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+# Robocalls in the US per month
+
+Data obtained from [RoboCallIndex](https://robocallindex.com/history/time). As
+it is not clear whether we can redistribute the data as part of this
+repository, we retrieve it locally instead.
+
+There is a potential changepoint in March 2018 when the Federal Appeals Court
+struck down FCC rules on Robocalls. Full history of the relevant legislation
+can be found at
+[https://epic.org/amicus/tcpa/aca-international/](https://epic.org/amicus/tcpa/aca-international/).
+
+![Plot of robocalls dataset](./robocalls.png)