Data Driven Law
Data-Driven Legal Guidance Ed Walters Talks to Tom Hagy for the Emerging Litigation Podcast Interview SPEAKERS Tom Hagy, Host, Emerging Litigation Podcast Ed Walters, CEO & Founder, Fastcase (see complete bio at end of this document) PODCAST https://litigationconferences.com/data-driven-legal-guidance-with-ed-walters/ Tom Hagy Hello and welcome to the Emerging Litigation Podcast. I'm your host, Tom Hagy. Today we're going to talk about the weather, but only for a minute. Mostly we're going to talk about big data. I don't know how many of you are weather nerds, you know you're out there. But you may have the Weather Channel app on your phones. Those of you who do might have noticed a few years ago, it became an IBM Business. You might ask why? I'll tell you. Deep Thunder is the name of IBM's weather monitoring and forecasting system that combines Big Data, supercomputers and physics to create highly localized and accurate weather profiles and predictions for a given area. The launch of deep thunder came about after IBM first invested in the Weather Channel as part of a multibillion-dollar foray into the Internet of Things creating a division bearing that name, IBM and the weather channel. So their collaboration would help industries quote, operationalize their understanding of the impact of weather on business outcomes. That makes sense when you think about the economic [...]