This is the fifth of seven informal video talks on document review and predictive coding. The first video explained why this is important to the future of the Law. The second talked about step one, ESI Communications. The third about step two, Multimodal Search Review. The fourth about step three, Random Baseline (my personal favorite with an 1,100 word introduction).
This video talks about the fourth, fifth and sixth steps of the e-Discovery Team’s eight-step work flow. These are the iterated predictive coding steps proper. Step four is AI Predictive Rank, five is Document Review, and six is Hybrid Active Training. Here we get into the core of the predictive coding process proper. As you will see, it’s relatively easy.
As this video explains, it has all become almost simple with Mr. EDR and its improved interfaces and smart algorithms. The whole machine training process has become easier over the last few years as we have tinkered with and refined the methods. (Tinkering is the original and still only true meaning of hacking. See: HackerLaw.org) At this point of the predictive coding lifecycle it is, for example, easier to learn how to do predictive coding than to learn how to do a trial – bench or jury. Interestingly,the most effective instruction method is similar – second chair apprenticeship, watch and learn. It is the way complex legal practices have always been taught. My team can teach it to any smart tech lawyer by having them second chair a couple of projects.
It is interesting to note that medicine uses the same method to teach surgeons how to do complex robotic surgery, with a da Vinci surgical system, or the like. Whenever a master surgeon operates with robotics, there are always several doctors watching and assisting, more than are needed. In this photo they are the ones around the patient. The master surgeon who is actually controlling the tiny knifes in the patient is the guy on the far left sitting down with his head in the machine. He is looking at a magnified video picture of what is happening inside the patient’s body and moving the tiny knives around with a joystick.
The hybrid human/robot system augments the human surgeon’s abilities. The surgeon has his hands on the wheel at all times. The other doctors may watch dozens, and if they are younger, maybe even hundreds of surgeries before they are allowed to take control of the joy stick and do the hard stuff. The predictive coding steps four, five and six are far easier than this, besides, if you screw up, nobody dies.
For details on all eight steps see Predictive Coding 3.0. More information on document review and predictive coding can be found in the fifty-six articles published here.
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In after production QC I noticed one fact error at the 6:07 point in the video. I said that my Borg experiment review took me up to thirty rounds of training. In fact, it took exactly fifty rounds of training. Borg Challenge: Report of my experimental review of 699,082 Enron documents using a semi-automated monomodal methodology (a five-part written and video series comparing two different kinds of predictive coding search methods). I still cannot believe I spent fifty hours, and fifty rounds, on that predictive coding experiment. As you can see it took quite a toll of me physically to slog through that.
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