Sometimes profound implications become apparent from thinking through the implications of direct observations and sampling to determine the extent of the observed conditions. This is a story about the consequences of observing four Authorizations for Expenditures (“AFEs”) and a Daily Drilling Report (“DDR”) while in a meeting with an energy client talking about file share […]
The Grossman-Cormack article, “Evaluation of Machine-Learning Protocols for Technology-Assisted Review in Electronic Discovery,” has kicked off some useful discussions. Here are our comments on two blog posts about the article, one by Ralph Losey, the other by John Tredennick and Mark Noel: Losey: The Text Streetlight Ralph Losey made an interesting point in his July 6, […]
There has been ongoing debate in information governance and e-discovery circles on the significance of documents that do not contain searchable text, with evidence that half or more of the documents in some collections cannot be analyzed or managed because the tools used for those purposes require textual representations. How important is this limitation in […]
The Venus de Milo was once a block of solid marble until an ancient Greek sculptor negated some of the block leaving what is now one of the most famous statues in the world. Without the tools to remove the unwanted marble, Venus would still be hidden inside the solid block. In the document analysis […]
The Emperor has No Clothes – and PC Can’t See Image-Only Documents There are several parallels between predictive coding (AKA technology assisted review) and Hans Christian Andersons’ tale, “The Emperor’s New Clothes.” In the story, two weavers tell the emperor they will make him a suit of clothes that will be invisible to those people […]
Without the right tools, even basic information governance tasks can be difficult. The most glaring example is document classification which is the bedrock upon which virtually all information governance initiatives rest. If you can’t accurately classify an ever increasing volume of documents and correspondence, you can’t apply the correct retention schedules, you can’t specify which […]
Technology-Assisted Review (“TAR”) for e-discovery processing has received a fair amount of favorable publicity over the last several years, with extensive claims of statistically-sound measures of things like precision, recall, fallout, and f-measures. What may not be explicitly stated is that the “Technology” in TAR is limited to some type of textual analysis, i.e., TAR […]
Most of us have heard about the parable of the six blind men and the elephant – it may actually be the first recorded instance of faceted classification. Six blind men touched different parts of an elephant and each described a completely different thing based on their own perspective or “view” of the elephant: The one […]
Summary: Evidence that plaintiffs and their attorneys withheld information from Garlock Sealing Technologies, LLC, and filed inconsistent claims in other asbestos cases persuaded a bankruptcy court to cut mesothelioma plaintiffs requested estimated aggregate liability of Garlock by $1 billion. Without the use of BeyondRecognition’s BeyondRedaction technology, Garlock would not have been able to obtain as […]