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Our weekend edition of the “Top 20 … plus more” … a snapshot of some interesting e-discovery blog/web site posts, vendor news/views on a wide range of electronic discovery related issues, and other tech developments from the past week. It is compiled by e-discovery/social media professional Rob Robinson who is Vice President of Marketing for Orange Legal Technologies, a company that is a long-time member and sponsor of The Posse List and The Electronic Discovery Reading Room.
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November 16th weekend “Top 20 + more” e-discovery compendium > Spotlight: How Big Data, cloud computing, Amazon and poll quants won the U.S. election
November 16th, 2012 
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Posted in Analytics, Big Data, Weekly "Top 20 ... plus more" E-Discovery Articles 
Tags: Amazon RDS, Amazon Web Services, Andrew Beaujon, app servers, Ars Techina, auxiliary analyses, AWS, Bayesian prediction (the branch of logic, Big Data, Big Orca, Daniel Honan, data analysis, data scientists, Databases, discovery, Drew Linzer, DynamoDB, e-discovery, EBS Provisioned IOPS, EC2, EC2 Cluster Compute, ediscovery, Elastic Load Balancing, Elastic MapReduce, ElastiCache, EMC, ESI, Georgetown University Law School summit "Law Firm Evolution: Brave New World or Business as Usual?", Greenplum, Harper Reed, Huffington Post, IDC, JP Schneider, LA Times, LegalTech 2012, Leo Zhadanovsky, Leveldb, load balancer, Miles Ward, model checking, modeling, narwhals, Nate Silver, neuroinformatics, neuroscientist, Obama, Orange Legal Technologies, predictive coding, probabilities, RDS, Reena SenGupta of RSG, Rob Robinson, Romney, Route 53, sabermetric analysis, Sam Wang, SES, SNS, SQS, statistical analysis, statistics, Technology Assisted Review, Technology Assisted Review (TAR), The Ediscovery Reading Room, The OneO® Discovery Platform from Orange Legal Technologies, The Posse List, The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail-but Some Don’t, validation, Vertica, Virtualization, visualization, VPC, Weekly "Top 20 ... plus more", Who won the election? Big Data and the poll quants, Wired Magazine, “Big Data and the US Presidential Campaign” 
No Comments »The Data Vampire Diaries: Data Value
August 6th, 2012 posselist 
6 August 2012 - There are many barometers for value: the Kelly Blue Book for cars, the discounted cash flow method for stocks, and the currency exchange for money. For data however, conducting a valuation can be much more complex and there is no one method. For example, a single smoking gun email in litigation could be incriminatory or exculpatory in “bet the company” litigation. Organizations, particularly in retrospect, would value this email as priceless. However, in periods…
Is the Legal Industry Keeping up with Technology?
February 29th, 2012 posselist 
29 February 2012 – “Technology is changing the way we manage client information and data in the legal industry.” That was a quote Joe Kanka, Vice President of Corporate Development for eTERA Consulting, provided for a company news release waaaaaaaayback in June of 2005. The Paleolithic Period in legal technology.
As Joe writes, there there has been an evolution in how we manage client information since the paper days. The evolution continues as we use the technology that…
Posted in Analytics, Electronic Discovery 101: Where to Start, Project Management, Technology assisted-review and predictive coding Tags: Da Silva Moore v. Publicis Group et al., e-discovery, ediscovery, eTERA Consulting, Is the Legal Industry Keeping up with Technology?, Joe Kanka, predictive coding No Comments »Information Asymmetry
March 7th, 2011 posselist 
7 March 2011 — Analytics are big news lately, for better or worse. At least if you rely on corporate marketing and journalism trend pieces for “news.”
IBM’s Watson has garnered a lot of attention over the last month for beating human Jeopardy champions. Ken Jennings even famously welcomed our new “computer overlords” in his “Final Jeopardy” response. Now the New York Times turns its focus to e-discovery as a force automating human labor and expertise (in…
Electronic Discovery Sampling is a Natural Next Step
March 6th, 2011 posselist 
When confronted with an almost impossible data analysis problem, a tried and true technique to solve it has been the use of sampling. The mathematical analysis behind sampling is something that has been studied for quite a number of years. Also, sampling has also been put into practice for well over seventy years, in many fields from predicting results of elections and assessing quality of electric bulbs. Why not do the same for certifying your ESI productions,…