Research

Predicting the Supreme Court

Author: Michael BommaritoOn: Jul 27Categories: Consulting, Law, Machine Learning, Research No Comments

One of the more exciting and public projects we’ve been working on lately has finally come to light – our Supreme Court prediction project with Dan Katz and Josh Blackman. This project is exactly what you’d expect – a framework...

Fuzzy match sentences in Python

Author: Michael BommaritoOn: Jun 12Categories: Consulting, Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, Programming, Research 1 Comment

Let’s imagine you have a sentence of interest. You’d like to find all occurrences of this sentence within a corpus of text. How would you go about this? The most obvious answer is to look for exact matches of the sentence. You’d search...

Isotonic Regressions in scikit-learn

Author: Michael BommaritoOn: Jun 08Categories: Consulting, Machine Learning, Programming, Research 1 Comment

Isotonic regression is a great tool to keep in your repertoire; it’s like weighted least-squares with a monotonicity constraint. Why is this so useful, you ask? Take a look at the example relationship below. (You can follow along with the...

Featured in Wired: Measuring the Complexity of the Law

Author: Michael BommaritoOn: Jun 03Categories: Consulting, Law, Research, Society No Comments

Thanks to Sam Arbesman (@arbesman) for featuring Dan and my paper, Measuring the Complexity of the Law: The United States Code, on his excellent Wired Science blog, the Social Dimension. You can read the article here, and, as a reminder, all of the code...

AWS EC2 hs1.8xlarge Oracle ORION benchmark results

Author: Michael BommaritoOn: Oct 28Categories: Cloud, Consulting, Infrastructure, Programming, Research 1 Comment

Benchmarking I/O with Oracle ORION is an important part of planning, baselining, and performance-tuning Oracle environments. I’ve previously provided ORION results for the hi1.4xlarge SSD-backed instance class, and based on some recent work, I...

Measuring the Complexity of the Law: The U.S. Code

Author: Michael BommaritoOn: Aug 13Categories: Law, Research, Society No Comments

Four years ago, Dan Katz and I began working on a project to measure the complexity of the law. Its genesis was, in every sense, an accident; in order to properly identify citations to the IRC in our VTR empirical review of U.S. Tax Court decisions,...

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Research

Predicting the Supreme Court

Fuzzy match sentences in Python

Isotonic Regressions in scikit-learn

Featured in Wired: Measuring the Complexity of the Law

Measuring the Complexity of the Law: The U.S. Code

Git Repository for Congressional Bill Statistics

Grexit stage left: visualizing the online discussion around Greece’s possible Euro exit

Charting Twitter time series data with tweet and unique user counts