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Monthly Archives: May 2009
Visualizing Job Losses from 2007-2009
For those of you who may have missed it, here is this visualization of geographic density of job losses around the country. As a person living in Michigan, it is fairly sobering. Click above to see the full movie starting … Continue reading
An Exchange in Need of Empirics and an Analytical or Computational Model
On a recent flight, I read Jeffrey Toobin’s New Yorker Article on Chief Justice Roberts entitled “No More Mr. Nice Guy”. The exchange quoted above is drawn from this article. While I believe it is appropriate to engage empirical data where … Continue reading
Data.gov is Now Online
Important thing worth noting … data.gov went online during our break …. From the front page “The purpose of Data.gov is to increase public access to high value, machine readable datasets generated by the Executive Branch of the Federal Government. Although the … Continue reading
Marginal Returns and the Mechanics of a Computational Legal Study
As noted earlier, we imposed a break over the Memorial Day Weekend and hope to return to a regular posting schedule this week. For the first post of the week, we want to reach out to readers exclusively socialized in … Continue reading
Measuring the Centrality of Federal Judges
Above are some graph statistics from our paper Hustle and Flow: A Social Network Analysis of the American Federal Judiciary. The paper measures the aggregated window of 1995-2005. These, of course, are not the only measures of centrality but they are … Continue reading
Various Explanations for the Financial Crisis-(From Information Aesthetics)
While the explanations might be imperfect in some respects, we are following the lead of Information Aesthetics and linking you to some videos potentially useful for explaining the financial crisis to a lay audience. Click above and it will lead you … Continue reading
Death Penalty Around the World — (From Flowing Data)
Blogging is going to be light from here through Memorial Day …. but we will back to a more typical posting cycle in late May. In the meantime, we thought we would briefly highlight an interesting visual we saw over … Continue reading
Syllabus–Modeling Law as a Complex Adaptive System
Several months ago, I put together this syllabus for use in a future seminar course Law as a Complex System. A number of my friends and colleagues noted that if were to actually use this syllabus in a course, it … Continue reading
Data on the Law Clerkship Tournament: Take 2
Highlighting underlying data Derek Stafford and I collected for our article Hustle and Flow: A Social Network Analysis of the American Federal Judiciary — here is some additional information on the law clerk tournament. In the original post, we highlighted both Circuit and District Court … Continue reading
The Bailout Breakdown from the Associated Press
Datavisualization.ch/ recently highlighted this interactive “Bailout Breakdown” offered by the Associated Press….. “Bailout Breakdown from Associated Press is an interactive applet that lets the user analyze the recipients and amounts of the $700 Billion bailout plan from the American government. The data … Continue reading
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Classifying the US Patent Hierarchy
The United States Patent and Trademark Office patent classification scheme organizes 3 million patents into about 160,000 distinct patent classes. This visualization by Katy Börner, Elisha Hardy, Bruce W. Herr II, Todd M. Holloway, & W. Bradford Paley considers the organizational … Continue reading
The Real Estate Roller Coaster — Visualizing the Speculative Bubble
We are working hard to produce more original content for the site. In the meantime, we want to share some of our favorite projects and papers. Many of you have probably seen this visualization of housing prices–including the run up … Continue reading
