February 15th weekend e-discovery compendium: Ralph Losey takes “Minority Report” science to create smart data. Really smart data. – Electronic Discovery

February 15th weekend e-discovery compendium: Ralph Losey takes “Minority Report” science to create smart data. Really smart data.

This weekend:  

* The science of “Minority Report” meets the existing software and probability analysis of legal search methods.

* Endnotes: Glenn Greenwald is back; an excruciatingly gentle introduction to Bayesian reasoning; plus a video – your brain on Alfred Hitchcock.

Here is our weekend edition of the “Top 20 plus more” … a snapshot of some interesting eDiscovery issues, corporate risk developments and technology considerations from the past week. It is compiled by Rob Robinson who is an electronic discovery industry professional and author of the ComplexDiscovery blog.

Rob is a long-time member of and contributor to The Posse List and The Electronic Discovery Reading Room and he regularly compiles and curates information from online public domain resources and highlights key electronic discovery and corporate risk related stories, developments, and announcements. This is supplemented by the editorial staff of The Electronic Discovery Reading Room.

This week’s update is sponsored by TrustPoint International, a strong partner of The Posse List and the Electronic Discovery Reading Room.

 15 February 2014 - While talking about a new year’s next cool thing or development is a thoroughly enjoyable ritual … adored by e-discovery pundits … discussing what will not change provides valuable lessons for technology adoption strategy and disruptions.

One thing agreed by all: analytics will remain undemocratic. Yes, there are innovative data analysis and visualization technology players such as Tableau, QlikView, Alteryx, and Tibco (Spotfire) that have gained traction as “end user” friendly products. In the e-discovery area think the metric dashboards developed by Hitachi Data Systems, the arsenal of assessment reports and graphical data visualization charts developed by ZyLAB, and the data analytics and data visualization tools of Logikcull. However, despite significant efforts to “consumerize” e-discovery data analysis and move the power out of the ivory towers of vendors, 2014 will witness only incremental changes in this regard.

And that other big thing … predictive coding … remains “a project”. Companies and law firms are still talking about predictive coding as a “pilot” of new technology, not ready for “mainstream introduction”.

That attitude defeats the whole purpose, the potential of predictive analytics. To gain real advantage from the deluge of data, companies must engrain a “predictive” mindset into their DNA, rather than treating it as a silo “project”. Despite the pounding-on-the-table of such leading e-discovery lights as Jason Baron, predictive coding continues to be a tough sell.

Much of the business/industrial world “gets it”. Go to any event like an IBM analytics workshop or InformationWeek predictive analytics conference and what you hear is not “Big Data”. You hear “Smart Data”. Smart Data generally is information that has been enhanced by predictive analytics. It is Big Data’s second act.

In preparing for the Mobile World Congress next week I revisited my contacts at MIT Media Lab, MIT SENSEable City Lab, and other sources. One of the things MIT SENSEable City Lab is working on is an analytics study that leverages mobile phone data to analyze human mobility patterns in developing countries, especially in comparison to more industrialized countries. The analytics have already marked a number of factors that influence mobility, such as less infrastructural coverage and maturity, less economic resources and stability, and in some cases, more cultural and language-based diversity. As one of my contacts told me “there is so much good analytics out there that moving from “big” data to “smart” data should be and can be the goal of any industry.”

In the legal world nobody has given this more thought … obsessive thought … than Ralph Losey. Nobody believes more and works harder to achieve that predictive coding DNA mindset.

So his newest venture should come as no surprise: Presuit™. Quoting Ralph:

Predictive analytics has progressed to the point that Corporate Counsel could, given the right tools and knowledge, predict and prevent many of the law suits now hemorrhaging corporate America. Insurance companies could do the same thing, predict what claims will likely trigger litigation and take steps to avoid these costly disputes. It is all a matter of knowing how to obtain and use Smart Data to serve as an early warning system – Smart Data that will reveal emerging patterns of wrongful conduct before they ripen into litigation. I call this data analytics based program of litigation avoidance, Presuit™.

You got it. We are talking about the use of predictive coding type AI technologies to take corporate compliance to the next level. Yes, machine learning for legal compliance is a new tool, and Smart Data has never before been used to identify potential litigation. But it can be. It will be.

For all the details go to Ralph’s detailed description (click here).

Endnotes:

* He’s back!!!!! Glenn Greenwald is back reporting about the NSA, now with Pierre Omidyar’s news organization FirstLook and its introductory publication, The Intercept. Writing with national security reporter Jeremy Scahill, his first article covers how the NSA helps target individuals for assassination by drone.

Leaving aside the extensive political implications of the story, the article and the NSA source documents reveal additional information about how the agency’s programs work. From this and other articles, we can now piece together how the NSA tracks individuals in the real world through their actions in cyberspace. Its techniques to locate someone based on their electronic activities are straightforward, although they require an enormous capability to monitor data networks. One set of techniques involves the cell phone network, and the other the Internet.

Every cell-phone network knows the approximate location of all phones capable of receiving calls. This is necessary to make the system work; if the system doesn’t know what cell you’re in, it isn’t able to route calls to your phone. We already know that the NSA conducts physical surveillance on a massive scale using this technique.By triangulating location information from different cell phone towers, cell phone providers can geolocate phones more accurately. This is often done to direct emergency services to a particular person, such as someone who has made a 911 call. The NSA can get this data either by network eavesdropping with the cooperation of the carrier, or by intercepting communications between the cell phones and the towers.

A previously released Top Secret NSA document says this: “GSM Cell Towers can be used as a physical-geolocation point in relation to a GSM handset of interest.”This technique becomes even more powerful if you can employ a drone. Greenwald and Scahill write: “The agency also equips drones and other aircraft with devices known as ‘virtual base-tower transceivers’ — creating, in effect, a fake cell phone tower that can force a targeted person’s device to lock onto the NSA’s receiver without their knowledge.”  For the full piece click here.

It is as advertised: an excruciatingly gentle introduction that invokes all the human ways of grasping numbers, from natural frequencies to spatial visualization. To download click here.

But why do we get so emotionally engaged in this simple tale of a five-year-old boy who comes into possession of a real handgun that he mistakenly thinks a harmless toy? The answers are rooted in the mechanics of the human brain and this is all part of a study entitled “Neurocinematics: the Neuroscience of Film,” a presentation by Princeton University’s Neuroscience Institute.

Hitchcock was well ahead of the pack on this one. In a biography I just finished he said he conceived of his style of cinema as “doing experiments on the audience,” and called his movies “a sequence of stages designed to have an effect on your brain.” The brains of everyone sitting in the theater thus, theoretically, all become “resonant and aligned with the movie in a very powerful and complicated way.” Various types of neuroscience research bear this out, from measuring the skin temperature, perspiration, and blood flow in the brains of subjects as they watch Hitchcock’s young protagonist add more “toy” bullets to the “toy” gun he brandishes around the neighborhood.

I have a link to all the functional MRI machine data if you want it. For now just enjoy .. if you can:

By: Gregory P. Bufithis, Esq. / Chairman and Founder of  The Project Counsel Group

And now Rob Robinson’s e-discovery compendium: 

 eDiscovery Now for Legal Professionals

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Industry Conferences, Events and Meetings

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2014 eDiscovery Events

FEBRUARY

5th Annual Cloud Computing for DoD and Government
February 19-21, 2014
Washington, DC
Click here for more information.

MARCH

LegalTech Asia Summit
March 3, 2014
Hong Kong
Click here for more information.

E-Discovery Conference for the Small and Medium Case
March 14, 2014
University of Florida, Levin College of Law
Click here for more information.

2nd Annual New Zealand eDiscovery Conference
March 14, 2014
Auckland, New Zealand
Click here for more information.

Pharmaceutical & Medical Device Legal & Compliance Forum
March 24-25, 2014
Alexandria, VA
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ABA TECHSHOW
March 27-29, 2014
Chicago, IL
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APRIL

AIIM Conference 2014
April 1-3, 2014
Orlando, FL
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2nd Annual Consortium on Litigation, Information Law and E-Discovery
April 20, 2014
New York, Chicago, San Jose
Click here for more information.

ACEDS 2014 E-Discovery Conference & Exhibition
April 27-29, 2014
Hollywood, FL
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MAY

The 14th Annual Super Conference (Inside Counsel)
May 12-14, 2014
Chicago, IL
Click here for more information.

FOSE
May 13-15, 2014
Washington, DC
Click here for more information.

Access Data User’s Conference
May 13-16, 2014
Las Vegas, NV
Click here for more information.

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February 15th weekend e-discovery compendium: Ralph Losey takes “Minority Report” science to create smart data. Really smart data.
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