Isotonic regression is a great tool to keep in your repertoire; it’s like weighted least-squ...
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. Â...
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Git Repository for Congressional Bill Statistics
 After a nice twitter conversation this morning, I finally got the impetus to release the source f...
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Summary of community detection algorithms in igraph 0.6
 Based on Launchpad traffic and mailing list responses, Gabor and Tamas will soon be releasing igr...
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Building Python pandas from development source
 I first heard about Python pandas from a friend at RenTech or AQR in the early summer of last yea...
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Grexit stage left: visualizing the online discussion around Greece’s possible Euro exit
 While Tsipras and his Syriza coalition have been busy in Greek parliament, the Internet has been ...
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Visualizing the #nonato Twitter hashtag – time series and top users
 The NATO summit is currently being held in Chicago, and, as is typical for NATO or G# summits, th...
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“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 CloudSear...
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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 complexi...
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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 h...
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