Plotting Oracle RMAN backup durations with R
How long does your Oracle RMAN backup take to complete? How does this vary over time? Are there patterns by week,
Revisiting text processing with R and Python
Back in 2011, I covered the relative performance difference of the most popular libraries for text processing in R and Python.
Law’s Future from Finance’s Past: Recorded Talk from Reinvent Law Silicon Valley
Back in March, I posted the slides to my talk at the Silicon Valley Reinvent Law event - Law's Future from Finance's
Oracle ORION I/O benchmark results for AWS EC2 hi1.4xlarge instance type
In a typical Oracle database implementation, you'll want to baseline or benchmark your storage. The storage team will hand
Debugging parameter mismatch across RAC database instances with R, dba_hist, and gv$parameter
Did you find this post useful? Does your organization need Oracle services? We can help. Much of this morning
Legal Informatics with AWS CloudSearch – Slides for tonight’s AWS Michigan meetup
Tonight, Eric and I will be presenting back-to-back talks at the AWS Michigan meetup (hosted by the Tech Brewery
Wordcloud of the Healthcare/ACA (NFIB v. Sebelius) Opinion
Here's a wordcloud of the NFIB et al. v. Sebelius et al. opinion. Very interesting coalitions formation. Healthcare/ACA wordcloud
Visualization of Reading Level Frequency by Congressional Bill Stage
Here's a fun example of how you might use my data on Congressional bill length and complexity. Imagine you want to understand the empirical
Updates to data and statistics on Congressional bill complexity
When I put together my original post on the length and complexity of Congressional bills, I was hoping to build forward momentum on the
Installing AWS Cloud Search Command Line Tools
In case you're too lazy to dig into the full CloudSearch developer guide, here's a quick summary of how to install the CloudSearch API
Updated Michigan Compiled Laws (MCL) XML
Last August, I released an XML copy of the Michigan Compiled Laws (MCL). As an example of what could be done with the structured
Statistics on the length and linguistic complexity of bills
Where would you go to find out what the longest bill of the 112th Congress was by number of sections (H. R. 1473)? How
Hash collision attacks hose Oracle Transportation Management
Ars had a great write-up a few weeks ago about the huge hash resource starvation attack that was uncovered awhile back (when I say awhile back,