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… Read more ›
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Building an AWS CloudSearch domain for the Supreme Court
Tagged with: aws, cloud, cloudsearch, language, law, legal informatics
Posted in Law, Programming, Research
Posted in Law, Programming, Research
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… Read more ›
Tagged with: computational legal studies, data, language, law, legal informatics, python, visualization
Posted in Law, Programming, Research
Posted in Law, Programming, Research
Now in print: An Empirical Survey of the Population of U.S. Tax Court Written Decisions
When someone brings up the empirical study of legal citation, most people think of the work Landes & Posner and Epstein & Martin. If you’re really cool, you might even think of Dan and me, who have spent quite awhile analyzing and… Read more ›
Upcoming post series: Building a better legal search engine
Later this month, I’ll be giving a keynote at a meeting on Law and Computation at the University of Houston. As part of the talk, I’m putting together an example of how I think machine learning and structured data can… Read more ›
Pre-processing text: R/tm vs. python/NLTK
Let’s say that you want to take a set of documents and apply a computational linguistic technique. If your method is based on the bag-of-words model, you probably need to pre-process these documents first by segmenting, tokenizing, stripping, stopwording, and… Read more ›
