{"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. 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