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Data Analysis
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Data Privacy + Cybersecurity Insider
Social media analytics firm raises $130 million
Dataminr, a venture backed data analytics firm that analyzes Twitter posts and other public sources to provide real time information to news sources, investment banks and the government, recently announced…
Dewey B Strategic
The 2014-15 Start Stop Survey Results: The Products. Out with the Old. In With the Innovative: Lex Machina Best New Product. Fastcase/HeinOnline Best Innovation
By Jean O'Grady
In December I offered readers the opportunity to respond to a survey on products and processes that they started/stopped in 2014 or planned to stop or start in 2015. This…
Health Industry Washington Watch
Ways & Means Committee Schedules March 24 Hearing on Use of Data Analysis to Stop Medicare Fraud
On March 24, the House Ways and Means Subcommittee on Oversight is holding a hearing on CMS’s use of the Fraud Prevention System (FPS) to identify and stop Medicare fraud. Government…
Appellate and Supreme Court
LXBN Leaders: The Illinois Supreme Court Review Gives Appellate Lawyers a New Set of Tools
The Illinois Supreme Court Review launched about a month ago with one goal in mind: use data analysis to evolve the toolbox available to appellate lawyers. As Sedgwick partner and…
The Right Coast
Text Mining the State of the Union | RealClearPolitics
This graph represents the output of a text mining program called Wordfish, which compares and contrasts the frequency with which different terms occur in documents in order to place the…
Illinois Supreme Court Review
Testing Conventional Wisdom with Data Analytics
By Kirk Jenkins
Appellate lawyers are to a considerable degree in the business of anticipating the views and inclinations of appellate judges and justices. At every phase of litigation, whether it be selecting…
Dewey B Strategic
The 10 Most Popular Dewey B Strategic Posts in 2014
By Jean O'Grady
2014 was the first year since 2007 in which the legal press began consistently publishing optimistic news about the legal market. Law school enrollments are still shrinking. Large law firms…
PropertyProf Blog
Map of the Day: What America Wanted for Christmas
The New York Times worked with Google to uncover the popular gift ideas in various cities across the United States. Rather than centering on our long-term desires, the algorithm highlighted…
Iowa Healthcare Law Blog
CMS Establishes a new Office of Enterprise Data Analytics (OEDA)
By Jeanine Freeman, J.D., Brick Gentry P.C.
CMS announced in November the formation of a new Office of Enterprise Data Analytics (OEDA) and named Niall Brennan as the OEDA’s chief data officer. The OEDA’s overarching goal is to harness…
Covington Digital Health
CMS Designates Chief Data Officer to Lead New Data and Analytics Office
By Covington Digital Health Team
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced in late November that it has designated the agency’s first “Chief Data Officer” to lead a new Office of Enterprise Data and Analytics…