Hi, I've spent the day scraping information from Appeal Court judgements, in an attempt to find a metric for judges' performance.
For your interest and amusement[*], here's a snapshot of how far I've got with it: http://www.duffdevices.org/ratemyjudge/ Has anyone else looked at this area? The most painful part is extracting the data from paragraphs of English text; are there any tips/techniques for approaching this, other than "don't" of course? Thanks Nick [*] Fair warning: if you click through to read the judgments themselves, they describe the offences in some detail, so have a cleansing LOLcat to hand before going in.
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