In case you're too lazy to dig into the full CloudSearch developer guide, here's a quick summary of how to install the CloudSearch API command line tools on Linux: Ensure that you have a JRE/JDK installed. Most distros will ship with something like OpenJDK, which is fine. If you'd like, grab the "Oracle" JDK
Where would you go to find out what the longest bill of the 112th Congress was by number of sections (H. R. 1473)? How about by number of unique words (H.R. 3671)? What about by Flesch-Kincaid reading level (S. 475)? Head on over to this table of bills, updated daily for the 112th
If you've ever worked under the hood with OTM, you'll know that there's some pretty serious normalization. As I recently explained, deleting a single order can involve traversing over a hundred tables. So, what does this network of table relationships look like? After some quick SQL and a few minutes in Gephi, we get
Did you find this post useful? Does your organization need Oracle services? We can help. Working with Oracle databases can be daunting to developers and analysts who lack a deep understanding of relational models and SQL. One excellent example of a mystifying pitfall is the dreaded ORA-02292: integrity constraint error. This error often
In redis, every object is either a binary-safe string or collection thereof. Even if you're storing numbers from your client library or using the INCR/DECR counter within redis, the actual values are stored in memory as strings. In some cases, this may be fine; however, if you are storing many numbers, whole or decimal,
Part of blogging for myself is making notes about process that may or may not garner a wide audience. The first of these notes will cover the process to build, configure, and benchmark redis that I've put together. Building redis The first step is to obtain and build redis. Since I regularly use
Dan and I recently released a new legal informatics project with a few colleagues. The project, which we've named the Legal Language Explorer, provides an interface similar to Google Ngrams Viewer for the U.S. Supreme Court. Unlike Google's viewer, however, the Legal Language Explorer also allows users to drill-down into case-level information for each n-gram.
Last night, I posted a copy of the Michigan Compiled Law (MCL) as an improved and structured XML document. As an example of what can be easily done with freely available, structured, machine-readable law, I've produced a single HTML file containing the entire MCL with table of contents, internal hyperlinks, and indentation. You can either
A few weeks ago, Ari Hershowitz posted on Quroa calling for a Californa code hackathon. Since Ari was drumming up support for software developers to build state-level tools, I thought I'd see what data the Michigan government had to offer. However, Michigan, unlike California, does not provide any bulk access to its Code. Access to Michigan
igraph is my preferred library for graph manipulation. The core library is written in C and is easy to extend, there are bindings to Python and R, and Gabor and Tamas are really nice and helpful guys. That said, I've always noticed that one stumbling block for users has been building the Python bindings with
