{"id":1369,"date":"2013-07-11T12:48:05","date_gmt":"2013-07-11T12:48:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/garysieling.com\/blog\/?p=1369"},"modified":"2013-07-11T12:48:05","modified_gmt":"2013-07-11T12:48:05","slug":"visualizing-six-million-documents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.garysieling.com\/blog\/visualizing-six-million-documents\/","title":{"rendered":"Visualizing Six Million Files and Folders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Each year there are nearly <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uscourts.gov\/Viewer.aspx?doc=\/uscourts\/Statistics\/FederalJudicialCaseloadStatistics\/2012\/tables\/C00Mar12.pdf\">300,000<\/a> of these in Federal Federal Civil Court, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uscourts.gov\/Viewer.aspx?doc=\/uscourts\/Statistics\/FederalJudicialCaseloadStatistics\/2012\/tables\/F00Mar12.pdf\">1.3-1.6 million<\/a> in Federal Bankruptcy Court, but this pales in comparison to state courts, which accept just over <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bjs.gov\/index.cfm?ty=tp&amp;tid=30\">100 million cases each year<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Even a small extract of these takes up a fair amount of space:<br \/>\n<img alt='' class='alignnone size-full' src='http:\/\/garysieling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/img_51dea8ee52778.png' \/><\/p>\n<p>This is what a court docket looks like &#8211;<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-1373\" alt=\"level4\" src=\"http:\/\/garysieling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/level4-578x218.png\" width=\"578\" height=\"218\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This includes an actual document (PDF or html), xml metadata, although this varies case by case.<\/p>\n<p>Divided up into groups of a half dozen, these feel manageable:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-1372\" alt=\"level3\" src=\"http:\/\/garysieling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/level3-578x216.png\" width=\"578\" height=\"216\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Each of these is in one of 256 folders contains group of a half-dozen like the above listing:<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-1371\" alt=\"level2\" src=\"http:\/\/garysieling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/level2-578x281.png\" width=\"578\" height=\"281\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Each of these 256 folders is contained within another group of 256 folders:<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-1370\" alt=\"level1\" src=\"http:\/\/garysieling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/level1-578x303.png\" width=\"578\" height=\"303\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And that&#8217;s just for ~500k cases. Imagine how much paper is sitting out there in the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Each year there are nearly 300,000 of these in Federal Federal Civil Court, 1.3-1.6 million in Federal Bankruptcy Court, but this pales in comparison to state courts, which accept just over 100 million cases each year. Even a small extract of these takes up a fair amount of space: This is what a court docket &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.garysieling.com\/blog\/visualizing-six-million-documents\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Visualizing Six Million Files and Folders&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[153,421,535],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.garysieling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1369"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.garysieling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.garysieling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garysieling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garysieling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1369"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.garysieling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1369\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.garysieling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garysieling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garysieling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}