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ADVANCED CONFIGURATION

Analyze a docket

Configure rulemakings manually to generate Unity Catalog Delta tables, date windows, and custom ingestion parameters. For broad topic monitoring, use the Watchlist or the Discovered Rulemakings panel.

System Active Execution TierDatabricks Jobs mode

Docket registration

Quick Autofill from Known Dockets
Estimated runtime~35 min

Stage 2 sequentially fetches one detail page per comment from regulations.gov, capped at ~1000 req/hour by api.data.gov. Bottleneck stage: parsing.

setu
~4 min
inge
~2 min
pars
~23 min
embe
under 1 min
clus
~4 min
expo
~2 min

Orchestration Settings (Databricks Cloud)

Databricks Jobs Mode ActiveProduction-safe. Submits docket analysis pipelines directly to your serverless hosted Databricks instance.

Tip: Submit Analysis Job sends a pipeline trigger command directly to your hosted Databricks instance and navigates to the tracking dashboard to monitor progress.

configs/dockets.yaml snippet

- docket_id: "EPA-HQ-OAR-2021-0317"
  source: "regulations_gov"
  topic_id: "oil_and_gas"
  agency_id: "EPA"
  title: "EPA Standards of Performance for New, Reconstructed, and Modified Sources: Oil and Natural Gas Sector Climate Review"
  date_window:
    start_date: null
    end_date: null
  ingestion_mode: "full"
  expected_scale: 396
  processing_status: "configured_awaiting_run"
  notes: "Exact normalized-text hash baseline found 7 duplicate clusters across 16 comments from 396 parsed rows."

Pipeline commands

.uv-test-venv\Scripts\python.exe scripts\run_ingestion.py --docket-id EPA-HQ-OAR-2021-0317
.uv-test-venv\Scripts\python.exe scripts\run_embedding.py --docket-id EPA-HQ-OAR-2021-0317 --backend databricks
.uv-test-venv\Scripts\python.exe scripts\run_clustering.py --docket-id EPA-HQ-OAR-2021-0317 --clustering-mode vector_search

For production-scale runs, use the Databricks workflow task order from the end-to-end runbook: load sample tables, embed, cluster, export dashboard data.

Coverage policy

Analyzed

Appears in primary browsing with semantic clusters and validation receipts.

Baseline only

Appears with exact-hash metrics and an explicit semantic clustering next step.

Ingestion ready

Appears as a workflow or template, never as a zero-result dashboard.

Template topics

Telecom & Net NeutralityClimate / Oil & Gas / MethaneFinance & Consumer ProtectionAI & Technology RegulationPrivacy & Consumer Protection

Supported agencies

FCCEPACFPBFTCSEC

Tip: clicking a chip pre-fills the form by finding a known docket for that agency or topic (e.g./legacy/analyze?agency=SECautofills the SEC digital-asset-custody docket).