Category Archives: Big Data

SoDoToTAO Examples

Posted on December 10, 2022 by Skip Walter

Covid Deaths in U.S.:  1,109,679   Get Vaccinated! Stop the War in Ukraine! I am doing it again. OMG, I am doing it again. During my morning free writing, I realized that my SoDoToTAO process was at work exploring ChatGPT and GPT … Continue reading →

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Are our cars getting too smart to be safe?

Posted on November 18, 2022 by Skip Walter

A while ago I wrote about my Honda CR-V watching me. Last night, I got quite frightened when my CR-V decided to slam on the brakes while I was crossing railroad tracks in Seattle. Fortunately the car behind me didn’t … Continue reading →

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The Map is Not the Territory. Or is it?

Posted on August 25, 2020 by Skip Walter

Day 165 of Self Quarantine             Covid 19 Deaths in U.S.:  177,000 One of the profound early influences on my thinking was the statement in Alfred Korzybski‘s Science and Sanity “The Map is not the territory.” … Continue reading →

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Know Now

Posted on April 29, 2020 by Skip Walter

What if you could accurately predict, in fact even know, your quarterly results at the beginning of a quarter rather than at the end of a quarter? That is the question that Eric Robinson and I explored many times over … Continue reading →

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Why are there so few visual analytics applications?

Posted on April 8, 2020 by Skip Walter

I wish I knew. Robert Crawford asked “Why are there so few interactive visualization software application products in the legal space?  Attenex Patterns showed us the power of visual analytics to dramatically improve productivity in the legal market.  Yet, outside … Continue reading →

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Lifelet: Data Visualization to the Max

Posted on April 9, 2019 by Skip Walter

I attended the Institute for System Biology Future of Health Symposium 2019. If I use the scale of WUKID (Wisdom Understanding Knowledge Information and Data) I barely functioned somewhere between the data and information level.  I heard the words and I … Continue reading →

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What could an old fart possibly know about technology?

Posted on September 19, 2013 by Skip Walter

The day started with my wonderful son-in-law sending me a reminder of how ancient a technology mariner I am. He’d found this “What if?” answer from XKCD on “If all digital data were stored on punch cards, how big would … Continue reading →

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Daydreaming of Kindle Social Highlights

Posted on September 11, 2013 by Skip Walter

One of the joys of riding the ferry between Seattle and Bainbridge Island is bumping into the eclectic collection of friends and colleagues somewhat randomly. The other night I had the pleasure of sitting next to John Lange from Amazon. … Continue reading →

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Easy Productivity Boost – Multiple Monitors

Posted on February 9, 2012 by Skip Walter

Seeing this NY Times article, I was reminded of one of our key recommendations for boosting productivity in eDiscovery – make sure each lawyer reviewer has multiple monitors. From a capital investment standpoint, multiple monitors are very inexpensive and pay … Continue reading →

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Is the university experience wasted on the young?

Posted on February 3, 2012 by Skip Walter

Every now and again, the universe conspires to free up some time to do some face to face learning with terrific resources in the academic world.  After a whirlwind set of face to face meetings with professors at UW Seattle … Continue reading →

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