Days Five and Six of a Predictive Coding Narrative: Deep into the weeds and a computer mind-meld moment

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An article by Ralph Losey, Esq. posted on the blog e-Discovery Team®.


The article is part 4 in a series that examines a predictive coding test project that the author initiated as a training session, which analyzed data from 699,082 emails and attachments from the Enron litigation.  The goal of the project was to locate evidence related to one specific issue, involuntary employee terminations. The article also cites the former portions of this series, "The first day of search is described in Day One of a Predictive Coding Narrative: Searching for Relevance in the Ashes of Enron. The second day is described in Day Two of a Predictive Coding Narrative: More Than A Random Stroll Down Memory Lane. The third and fourth days are described in Days Three and Four of a Predictive Coding Narrative: Where I find that the computer is free to disagree."  Links to each earlier article are provided by the author. 


The article provides tips on how to choose a responsible service provider, and also looks at specific steps taken during the test project that the article is based upon.  The article provides comments from predictive coding expert Joe White, and looks at some of the suggestions he provided to Mr. Losey regarding the test review, as it unfolded.  Mr. Losey provides specific information about each step he followed in the test process, and the continued iterations that took place as the computer continued to learn from the designations assigned to documents that were actually reviewed and tagged by the author. The article provides interesting insight into the abilities of the software involved in the predictive coding process, and the abilities available to enhance the accuracy of the ongoing review.