data wrangling

Occupy Wall Street and the expanding global impact of social networking technologies have reminded us that we all have a right to participate actively in the process of making laws and in controlling the impact these laws have on us. This session will report on the ground-breaking work that BLIP clinicians are doing, using the well-known coder-hackathon model to assemble people and groups via social networking tools to bring together law schools, their faculty, students and staff in a more inclusive legislative process.

From government regulations to donor lists to a directory of every single lawyer in the country, very large corpuses of data and the ability to create, manage and access them have become a necessity. This session will cover tools and infrastructure being used to store and use large compilations of data, including normalization, access, retention, and integrity maintenance.