Class 10
InformationVisualization + DataViz in R
Legal Analytics
Professor Daniel Martin Katz
Professor Michael J Bommarito II
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The Art + Science of
Data Visualization
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AdSZJzb-aX8
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some thought leaders
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aaron koblin
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4v4XxlfVk3o
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dPv8psZsvIU
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nathan yau
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j8g4_ee27Tk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FbYnkg6wYSI
https://flowingdata.com/
http://www.amazon.com/Nathan-Yau/e/B004S83IUE
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manuel lima
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PWMFgS6w3BY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_mO0Fx1G7o
http://www.visualcomplexity.com/vc/
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g9Y4SxgfGCg
edward tufte
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Th_1azZA2OY
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Information Visualization
Can Be Powerful
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=usdJgEwMinM
DataVisualization Can Be Powerful
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Zg-C8AAIGg
DataVisualization Can Be Powerful
Data Visualization
as a
Complexity Reduction Device
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Complexity Simplicity
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Think about the task faced
by the intelligence
community ...
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mountains of
information to process
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how are those
intelligence analysts aided?
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Information
Visualization
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TheVisual Cortex is a
very powerful CPU ...
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We are very good
pattern detectors ...
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We need a mix of
analytics and viz ...
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because there are significant
efficiency gains to be obtained
from applications of sophisticated
data visualization techniques
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For example in law,
the Next Generation of
EDiscovery Software is
fairly viz intensive ...
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but this is only
the beginning ...
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including an even more
enriched notion of
time dynamics ...
http://computationallegalstudies.com/2014/01/
network-analysis-and-the-law-3d-hi-def-
visualization-of-the-time-evolving-citation-
network-of-the-united-states-supreme-court/
http://computationallegalstudies.com/2010/01/
the-time-evolving-structure-of-the-gawaher-
islamic-forum-as-experienced-by-umar-farouk-
abdulmutallab-the-christmas-day-bomber/
Menu of
Visualization Options
http://www.visual-literacy.org/periodic_table/periodic_table.html
http://www.visualizing.org/stories/taxonomy-data-visualization
http://homes.cs.washington.edu/~jheer/files/zoo/
Information
Visualization in Law
3D HDVisualization of Supreme Court Citation Network
Campaign Contributions and
Legislative Ecosystems
The United States Code American Federal Judiciary
http://computationallegalstudies.com/
https://patellis.wordpress.com/2014/05/06/decoding-advocacy-an-introduction-to-informatic-analyses-of-oral-argument/
http://www.openlawlab.com/project-topics/illustrated-law-visualizations/
http://www.abajournal.com/magazine/article/visual_law_services_are_worth_a_thousand_words--and_big_money
https://vimeo.com/72056031
http://www.theguardian.com/world/interactive/2013/jan/15/gun-laws-united-states
http://www.theguardian.com/world/interactive/2013/jan/15/gun-laws-united-states
http://cs.anu.edu.au/people/Michael.Curtotti/papers/visualizationfinal.pdf
Lets Work Through
A Basic Example Using R
https://gist.github.com/dsparks/3852720
Some More Complex
Implementions in R
time series plots
http://www.r-bloggers.com/quantitative-finance-applications-in-r-3-plotting-xts-time-series/
spatial visualization
http://www.r-bloggers.com/spatial-data-
visualization-with-r-2/ http://www.r-bloggers.com/k-means-redistricting/
radial / tree map
http://www.r-bloggers.com/plugging-hierarchical-data-from-r-into-d3/
http://flowingdata.com/2010/02/11/an-easy-way-to-make-a-treemap/
heatmaps
http://flowingdata.com/2010/01/21/how-to-
make-a-heatmap-a-quick-and-easy-solution/
small multiples
http://blog.dominodatalab.com/visualizing-homeownership-in-the-us-using-small-multiples-and-r/
Some Useful Books
https://www.packtpub.com/big-data-and-
business-intelligence/r-data-visualization-
cookbook
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0636920023135.do?sortby=publicationDate
Legal Analytics
Class 10 - Information Visualization + DataViz in R
daniel martin katz
blog | ComputationalLegalStudies
corp | LexPredict
michael j bommarito
twitter | @computational
blog | ComputationalLegalStudies
corp | LexPredict
twitter | @mjbommar
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site | danielmartinkatz.com site | bommaritollc.com

Legal Analytics Course - Class 10 - Information Visualization + DataViz in R - Professors Daniel Martin Katz + Michael J Bommarito