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Data Analysis
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CrimProf Blog
Fan on Structural Reform Bargaining and Police Regulation by Data-Driven Surveillance
Mary D. Fan (University of Washington - School of Law) has posted Panopticism for Police: Structural Reform Bargaining and Police Regulation by Data-Driven Surveillance (Washington Law Review, Vol. 87, p. 93,…
Sentencing Law and Policy
Notable FPD fact sheet says “TRAC Analysis of Variations in Sentencing Misses the Mark”
Main March 7, 2012Notable FPD fact sheet says "TRAC Analysis of Variations in Sentencing Misses the Mark"The afternoon I received an effective brief "Fact Sheet" produced by some federal public…
Sentencing Law and Policy
Trying to unpack the new federal sentencing data from TRAC
Main March 5, 2012Trying to unpack the new federal sentencing data from TRACAs reported in prior posts here and here, the folks at the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (aka TRAC)…
Environmental Law Prof Blog
Environmental law and spatial analysis
A few years ago, I participated in a retreat for a large interdisciplinary research project involving lots of economists and environmental scientists. As they talked about their work, I was…
The Legal Whiteboard
Why a whiteboard?
[Posted by Andy Morriss]I need to return the favor and talk about why I let Bill talk me into this project. First, a key way to improve a class was…
Sentencing Law and Policy
US Sentencing Commission releases fourth quarter of FY 2011 federal sentencing data
Main December 5, 2011US Sentencing Commission releases fourth quarter of FY 2011 federal sentencing dataThe US Sentencing Commission has some fresh new federal sentencing data just up on its website.…
Internet, IT & e-Discovery
Google Buys Zagat – New Source of Data and Spread for Social Media!
By Peter Vogel
Google paid an estimated $100-200 million to expand its reach by purchasing Zagat Survey that potentially increases Google’s Social Media power. Pew Research recently report that 92% of adults on the…
Inside Privacy
SocialGuide Releases Social Media-Based Television Ratings
New York start-up SocialGuide has launched from beta and released its first television ratings report this week, based on information mined and filtered from more than 10.5 million social media comments by…
Data Counsel
Harnessing “Big Data” to Create Value
In the wake of the recent breaches at Epsilon and Sony and the scrutiny Apple and Google are facing for their geolocation data tracking practices, there has been little media…
The Right Coast
Psychoanalyze tweeters Tom Smith
This is interesting. Plug in a person's twitter handle and get a report on their psychological profile based on a statistical analysis of the words they use. I ran Glenn…