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// Sponsored by NYU's Center for Urban Science & Progress //
Earlier this fall, NYC announced a decades-long plan for a progressive & engaging program around the citys data strategy. It is a reminder that opening data requires sustained effort, & is an indispensable resource for legal hackers.
In legal contexts, the difficulties of accessing case law, opinions, statutes, & other legal instruments digitally & en masse are all too familiar. The Case Law Access Project (CAP) is an oasis in this data desert. Created by the Library Innovation Lab at Harvard in 2018, CAP enables a leap forward for open legal data research: it exposes a mega 6.7 million US state decisions & 1.7 million federal decisions in a semi-structured format.
In this interactive session well:
1. Discuss open data in law & policy contexts,
2. Take a tour of existing experiments within the CAP dataset & review local datasets
3. Explore fundamentals of wrangling text data & natural language processing
4. Identify inquiries that we would like to ask of the data, & aim to answer those inquiries
5. Generate learnings to share with NYC Open Data
Please bring a charged laptop to fully participate.
Relevant links:
http://www.open-data.nyc/
https://case.law/about/
https://cusp.nyu.edu/
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