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Fuzzy match sentences in Python

By bcllc|2014-06-12T18:26:24-04:00June 12th, 2014|Categories: Consulting, Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, Programming, Research|Tags: fuzzy, fuzzy match, machine learning, natural language, nlp, nltk, python, sentence, text mining|

Let's imagine you have a sentence of interest. You'd like to find all occurrences of this sentence within a corpus of text.

Isotonic Regressions in scikit-learn

By bcllc|2014-06-08T22:30:37-04:00June 8th, 2014|Categories: Consulting, Machine Learning, Programming, Research|Tags: data, isotonic, machine learning, monotonic, predictive analytics, python, scikit-learn, sklearn, smooth|

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

Featured in Wired: Measuring the Complexity of the Law

By bcllc|2014-06-03T20:50:06-04:00June 3rd, 2014|Categories: Consulting, Law, Research, Society|Tags: complexity, dataset, law, legal complexity|

Thanks to Sam Arbesman (@arbesman) for featuring Dan and my paper, Measuring the Complexity of the Law: The United States Code, on his

Automating Oracle ORION I/O testing

bcllc2013-10-29T07:00:19-04:00October 29th, 2013|0 Comments

Oracle ORION is a powerful tool for evaluating realistic OLTP and DSS/DW I/O performance. ORION should be a part of

AWS EC2 hs1.8xlarge Oracle ORION benchmark results

bcllc2013-10-28T19:33:07-04:00October 28th, 2013|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

ipython notebook for R: Quickstart for Ubuntu

bcllc2013-10-27T15:04:46-04:00October 27th, 2013|0 Comments

If you're like me, you love ipython notebook but often write R. RStudio's integrated RMarkdown is nice, but for some

Is the Tax Code the longest Title?

bcllc2013-08-19T08:52:29-04:00August 19th, 2013|0 Comments

Last week, I shared that Dan Katz and I had finally published a draft of our paper, Measuring the Complexity of

Slides from ReInvent Law Silicon Valley Talk

By bcllc|2013-03-08T17:13:28-05:00March 8th, 2013|Categories: Consulting, Finance, Law|Tags: computational legal studies, finance, law, legal informatics|

Live from ReInvent Law Silicon Valley, where I gave an Ignite-style talk drawing analogy to law's future from finance's past. Slides embedded below and video

Automating Oracle Database deployment with Amazon Web Services, fabric, and boto – SEMOP Talk, Feb 12, 2013

By bcllc|2013-02-12T17:02:23-05:00February 12th, 2013|Categories: Cloud, Consulting, Programming|Tags: automated deployment, aws, boto, devops, ec2, fabric, oracle|

I'll be giving a talk tonight on automated Oracle database deployment at the SouthEast Michigan Oracle Professionals (SEMOP) Meetup Group. While I'll be following up on this

Git Repository for Congressional Bill Statistics

By bcllc|2012-12-22T12:00:12-05:00December 22nd, 2012|Categories: Law, Programming, Research|Tags: data, law, legal informatics, nlp, python|

After a nice twitter conversation this morning, I finally got the impetus to release the source for my Congressional Bill Statistics data. You

Connecting R to an Oracle database with RJDBC

By bcllc|2012-11-22T11:00:36-05:00November 22nd, 2012|Categories: Consulting, Programming|Tags: database, oracle, r|

In many circumstances, you might want to connect R directly to a database to store and retrieve data. If the source database is an Oracle

Retrieving the VIX term structure in R

By bcllc|2012-11-05T07:22:44-05:00November 5th, 2012|Categories: Consulting, Programming|Tags: r, trading, volatility|

Much of my time lately has gone into analyzing and trading products in the volatility complex. As a result, I regularly watch the VIX

Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning for e-Discovery – Slides from guest lecture at MSU College of Law

By bcllc|2012-10-31T09:37:55-04:00October 31st, 2012|Categories: Consulting, Law, Technology|Tags: eDiscovery, lecture, machine learning, ml, natural language processing, nlp, predictive coding|

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