If you're like me, you love ipython notebook but often write R. RStudio's integrated RMarkdown is nice, but for some contexts like quick demos or basic training, a browser-based interface is unbeatable. What if we could get the best of both worlds - an ipython notebook for R? The answer is rNotebook, and if you
Last week, I shared that Dan Katz and I had finally published a draft of our paper, Measuring the Complexity of the Law: The U.S. Code. We'd previewed this research on Computational Legal Studies years ago. Since then, we've received great feedback and a number of questions. The most common question, even among legal professionals,
Back in March, I posted the slides to my talk at the Silicon Valley Reinvent Law event - Law's Future from Finance's Past. Last week, we posted the video online; you can watch below. Michael Bommarito - Law’s Future from Finance’s Past from ReInvent Law Channel on Vimeo.
Fellow Computational Legal Studies blogger and MSU law prof Dan Katz invited me to give an expert guest lecture for his e-Discovery seminar. This seminar, taught jointly with Professor Candeub, is an excellent example of MSU's strategic pivot to deliver practical, 21st-century skills to their students. The goal of the talk was to provide
In a typical Oracle database implementation, you'll want to baseline or benchmark your storage. The storage team will hand over, and you'll run a battery of tests using software like bonnie++ or ORION. You'll make sure that the results are in-line with requirements and expectations. What if you are implementing said database on
Did you find this post useful? Does your organization need Oracle services? We can help. Much of this morning went into investigating strange ADDM reports on a two-node Oracle RAC database. For some reason, there were statistically improbable differences between impact percentages that have persisted over a month; in this case, instance 2 would
Tonight, Eric and I will be presenting back-to-back talks at the AWS Michigan meetup (hosted by the Tech Brewery this time). Eric will be detailing a large Matlab HPC experiment we ran this summer to optimize parameters for a trading strategy; this one is a great AWS case study, as we crunch 10B inputs
Here's one purely for fun - a wordcloud built from the Supreme Court's opinion on Arizona et al. v United States. Word clouds, though certainly not the most scientific of visualization techniques, are often engaging and "fun" ways to lead into discussion on NLP or topic modeling. Arizona et al. v United States wordcloud
In our last post on cloud architectures, I covered a simple one-node Oracle Transportation Management instance on Amazon Web Services using EC2. This OTM cloud hosting configuration is well-suited to a development environment and is a very inexpensive option for teams that have on-staff database administration skills. For teams that do not have the
As I mentioned on Monday, I'll be starting a series of posts on Oracle Transportation Management (OTM) in the cloud. In the first stage of these posts, I'll be covering the set of feasible architectures given the infrastructure offerings at Amazon Web Services. And, as you might expect, we'll be starting with the simplest
