As other judges followed suit, issuing their own opinions endorsing or approving predictive coding, the trend led law firm Gibson Dunn, in its annual e-discovery update, to declare 2012 «
the year of predictive coding.»
Not exact matches
Another signal pointing to momentum is the emergence
of predictive coding pundits and experts in Australia — which were all but non-existent a
year ago.
More than half cited
predictive coding as the key technological shift that could alter the balance
of reasonableness and proportionality in the coming
years.
Despite the advances expected with
predictive coding, emerging challenges such as increasing data volumes, complex data types such as from social media and the cloud, as well as increasing international discovery demands provided such a counterweight that 47 %
of counsel expect e-discovery costs to increase over the next few
years.
This indicates that
predictive coding continues to gain interest within the industry, considering that in the previous
year's survey 55 %
of respondents said they were considering the use
of predictive coding.
Two
years ago, it was big news in the world
of e-discovery when U.S. Magistrate Judge Andrew J. Peck issued the first judicial opinion expressly approving the use
of predictive coding.
Within the last two
years, federal and state courts around the country have issued decisions endorsing the use
of predictive coding and accepting it as the norm.
Even
predictive coding — a relative newcomer compared to, say, using online data hosting platforms or keyword search terms — has been used for a number
of years now.
There was a big focus in the last
year on
predictive coding solutions, social media, mobile devices, and the upcoming Federal Rules
of Civil Procedure (FCRP) amendments.
D4 has performed analytics on hundreds
of cases using all features
of the platform including Near - duplication, Email Threading, Themes, and
Predictive Coding during the many
years of experience consulting and implementing Equivio solutions.
The company's
predictive data analytics engine processes thousands
of data elements spanning 40
years of historical data and one billion residential real estate transactions, indexing and standardizing data to forecast home price valuations and market trends for three million residential blocks, 18,000 zip
codes, and 381 U.S. metropolitan areas.
San Francisco - based HouseCanary's
predictive data analytics engine processes thousands
of data elements spanning 40
years of historical data and one billion residential real estate transactions, indexing and standardizing data to forecast home price valuations and market trends for three million residential blocks, 18,000 zip
codes, and 381 U.S. Metropolitan Statistical Areas (MSAs).