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59 Law Libr. Lights 1 (2015-2016)

handle is hein.journals/lll59 and id is 1 raw text is: ;v I ihr- rin; S nr ip4x - /,- -hir Interview with Ed Walters, the CEO of Fastcase Amy Taylor Emerging Technologies Librarian, American University, Washington College of Law, Pence Law Library, amytaylor@wcl.american.edu Amy Taylor: The theme of this issue is Big Data/Small Data. How has the emergence of big/small data affected Fastcase? Ed Wa ters: Data analysis is how we got our start. Even in 1999 when we got started, we did things like integrate citation analysis into search results, so Big Data is baked into our company's DNA. We were ahead of our time then, but it seems like the legal market is really catching on to the idea of legal analytics. A few years ago, we used data analysis to create the first big data citator in Fastcase, called Bad Law Bot. The idea was to harvest negative treatment information from the 80 million citations in -aw Library Lights Volume 59, Numb( Interview with Ed Walters, 1 CEO of Fastcase Amy Taylor Editor's Column 4 Amy Taylor President's Column 5 Pamela Lipscomb Member Spotlight 8 Shannon Roddy Is Legal Research Dead 9 in the Age of Google? Scott Wales Tech Talk 11 Jill Smith 12015

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