Is the Tax Code the longest Title?
Last week, I shared that Dan Katz and I had finally published a draft of our paper, Measuring the Complexity of the Law:
Measuring the Complexity of the Law: The U.S. Code
Four years ago, Dan Katz and I began working on a project to measure the complexity of the law. Its genesis
Plotting average read and write operation size by ASM disk for Oracle
Throughput, throughput, throughput - for many databases, this is the performance measure of importance. When you are working with a fixed
Git Repository for Congressional Bill Statistics
After a nice twitter conversation this morning, I finally got the impetus to release the source for my Congressional
Connecting R to an Oracle database with RJDBC
In many circumstances, you might want to connect R directly to a database to store and retrieve data. If the
Retrieving the VIX term structure in R
Much of my time lately has gone into analyzing and trading products in the volatility complex. As a result,
Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning for e-Discovery – Slides from guest lecture at MSU College of Law
Fellow Computational Legal Studies blogger and MSU law prof Dan Katz invited me to give an expert guest lecture
Charting Twitter time series data with tweet and unique user counts
Let's say you've used my Python script to automate the download of a hashtag or search phrase from Twitter (in a Unicode safe way, unlike within
eDiscovery Consulting in the Cloud: Searching an Outlook mailbox and attachments
You may have noticed that I keep talking about eDiscovery consulting and legal search in the cloud. I've covered searching the Supreme Court with
Down with the static
After six years of static HTML, it finally became apparent that this site needed a real CMS. Please excuse the construction while we settle in
Generating AWS CloudSearch SDF for Emails
In my last post on CloudSearch and eDiscovery, I described something like “Google” for eDiscovery emails. FedEx or DropBox your data to an eDiscovery
“Google” for subpoenaed emails: AWS CloudSearch for eDiscovery
In the last post on AWS CloudSearch, I provided a tutorial on the creation of a simple CloudSearch domain for Supreme Court decisions. This walkthrough
Building an AWS CloudSearch domain for the Supreme Court
It should be pretty clear by now that two things I'm very interested in are cloud computing and legal informatics. What better way to