Two weeks ago, I posted a pair of very rough working papers. The second of these, Exploring Relationships between Legal Concepts in the United States Supreme Court, opens up a number of interesting "historical data mining" techniques. I thought I'd go over an example of this today to demonstrate the usefulness of the approach. First,
I've uploaded the slides for my talk today at the University of Houston Computational Law Conference. The purpose of the talk, in my own words, is: ... [to] present the set of frames through which I view the relationship between law and computation: "law as computation," "computation on law," and "law and computation." By distinguishing
What do you do with that unfinished paper? You know, the one that's 50% there but you don't have the time to finish. Or maybe it's the one that's 80% there, but you don't want to deal with the inevitable two years of revise-and-resubmit. This problem gets even harder when you decide to leave academia. I
When someone brings up the empirical study of legal citation, most people think of the work Landes & Posner and Epstein & Martin. If you're really cool, you might even think of Dan and me, who have spent quite awhile analyzing and visualizing Supreme Court citations like those in the 3D 1080p animation below: These studies, including
As I mentioned last week, I'm excited to give a keynote in two weeks on Law and Computation at the University of Houston Law Center alongside Stephen Wolfram, Carl Malamud, Seth Chandler, and my buddy Dan from CLS. The first part in my blog series leading up to this talk will focus on indexing and searching
Oops. Looks like the #anon member in charge of developing the BoA leak site may have outed himself through the Facebook App ID. Pull up the source from bankofamericasuck.com and you'll find this: <script> window.fbAsyncInit = function() { FB.init({appId: '174193262621648', status: true, cookie: true, xfbml: true}); }; (function()
Thanks to Sam Arbesman yesterday for pointing out that Kevin Kelly thinks the blog Dan and I run, Compuational Legal Studies, is a "signpost of the future." We were probably a few years early with some of our ideas and methods, but hey, an innovator's born to innovate, right?
I wondered yesterday whether one of the Algeria/Yemen hashtags would dominate. In order to bring some numbers to the discussion, I grabbed all public tweets on #feb12 and #fev12 through this afternoon. You can see the results below: First off, note that all timestamps are UTC. Second, based on the scale, it's pretty clear that
Here's another econophysics paper from H. Eugene Stanley and crew: D. Wang, B. Podobnik, D. Horvatić, H. E. Stanley. Quantifying and Modeling Long-Range Cross-Correlations in Multiple Time Series with Applications to World Stock Indices. In my opinion, the primary contribution of the paper isn't really their method. The "global factor model" seems like the same
