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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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Posted in Programming, Research

Two new papers on SSRN: Measuring EU integration through sovereign debt & Exploring relationships between headnotes in the Supreme Court

  What do you do with that unfinished paper?  You know, the one that’s 50% there but you don’t have the time to finish.  Or maybe it’s the one that’s 80% there, but you don’t want to deal with the inevitable two

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Posted in Finance, Law, Research

Deaths per TWh (terawatt-hour) by Energy Type

The chart says it all, with nuclear winning by two orders of magnitude (via ManyEyes).   

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Posted in Finance, Society, Technology

A quick look at #march11 / #saudi tweets

Well, so much for that #march11 #Saudi day of rage.  Whether it was really the "tempest in a teacup" that  Prince Al-Waleed suggested on CNBC (video below, transcript here) or not, the oil complex and Saudi markets seem to have shrugged

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Posted in Finance, Programming

Marginal Revolution on ideological economist blindspots

Having spent more time than I’d like to recall in rooms with economists, political scientists, and law professors of various stripes and names, this Marginal Revolution post really formalized many of my feelings about current academic research agendae.  That said,

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