D.C. Georgia Florida Texas California Illinois Trial Takes Information that Shows Up, Not Shows Off Information, by itself, is useless. It takes skill and craft to discern the patterns revealed by litigation data. Power is in knowing what information means. To gather information with computers is useless unless you have influence over the information you gather, the ability to discern what matters from what doesn't. That capacity is the byplay between your intellect and your information.
Data is always tasteless, colorless, odorless, and pointless.
Information does not care how it is used, it is only the use to which you put the information that matters. All information is ordinary except as an answer to a question - it isn't data collation but data interrogation that takes craft. The questions are the hard part of the information equation because there is not a single answer to any question put to information. Rather, there is a stream of answers to a stream of questions. You gain influence over information by discerning what patterns it reveals.