Monthly Archives: April 2012

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 service provider like myself, and rest assured that you’ll soon have a powerful, web-based user

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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 CloudSearch domain for Supreme Court decisions.  This walkthrough described the steps of creating a domain, configuring access policies and indexing, populating the index,

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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 show it than to put together a simple AWS CloudSearch tutorial using Supreme Court decisions

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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 complexity.  Imagine you want to understand the empirical distribution of Flesch-Kincaid reading level for Congressional bills and how this distribution is related to

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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 hoping to build forward momentum on the project.  The goal was to build a simple, sortable and searchable interface to explore and

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