Imagine your company five to ten years down the road: what does it look like? Do you see a well-run ...
Course material for Complex Systems 530 – Computer Modeling for Complex Systems
This term, I’m teaching Complex Systems 530 – Computer Modeling for Complex Systems a...
Predicting the Supreme Court
One of the more exciting and public projects we’ve been working on lately has finally come ...
Advanced approximate sentence matching in Python
In our last post, we went over a range of options to perform approximate sentence matching in Python...
Fuzzy match sentences in Python
Let’s imagine you have a sentence of interest. You’d like to find all occurrences of t...
Isotonic Regressions in scikit-learn
Isotonic regression is a great tool to keep in your repertoire; it’s like weighted least-squ...
Featured in Wired: Measuring the Complexity of the Law
Thanks to Sam Arbesman (@arbesman) for featuring Dan and my paper, Measuring the Complexity of the L...
Is there tax in the cloud?
Do you contract for IaaS, PaaS, or SaaS services like Amazon Web Services or SalesForce? Do you pr...
Monitoring AWS VPC tunnels
While many Amazon Web Services resources with “state” have CloudWatch sensors available,...
Automating Oracle ORION I/O testing
Oracle ORION is a powerful tool for evaluating realistic OLTP and DSS/DW I/O performance. ORION sh...