"We created a searchable database with all 20,000 files from Epstein's Estate"

[orleans]

https://couriernewsroom.com/news/we-created-a-searchable-database-with-all-20000-files-from-epsteins-estate/

The 20,000 documents come in the form of poorly organized folders with unhelpful labels, screenshots of emails, and heavily redacted spreadsheets. Some of the files are devoid of context, such as a video in the NATIVES folder of a dog playing with plushies of Trump and Hillary Clinton, while others are broken up in confusing ways, like email chains split into several PDFs.

To make this massive data dump more accessible, COURIER has compiled the 20,000 documents from Epstein’s estate into an easily searchable repository via Google Pinpoint. Use the search tool here.

i tried it. found a phone interview with virginia giuffre (named virginia roberts below in the excerpt)

question

JS:
can you give me an estimate as to the number of friends for whom jeffery provided and paid for your services?
V: there was about, you know, i don't know, 8 guys possibly
JS:
and are you able to name those people for me?
Edwards adv. Epstein
telephone interview with virginia roberts
page 12 of 23
V: no, not at this stage. i just, some of these people are really influential in power and i don't want to start another shitstonn with a few of them. i'll tell you that there were some erotic messages given to, i'm just afraid to say it to you.
JS:
ok virginia.
V: it's like, geez, i don't know if i want to, i'm really scared of where this is gonna go.

https://journaliststudio.google.com/pinpoint/document-view?collection=092314e384a58618&utm_source=collection_share_link&p=1&docid=2bb50ba47fac5c8f_092314e384a58618_0&page=1&dapvm=2

[Henry203]

1. This is not really helpful

You need more to understand its content. I work in ediscovery and this is not useful.

[orleans]

2. useful to what end? what exactly would be an improvement in your opinion?

[Henry203]

3. Unless you are in the industry

You don”t understand. There is more to compiling information than just a search. The first change was predictive coding, then Cal, and now generative AI.

[orleans]

4. newsflash. none of that really matters to joe average who just wants to read some of those fucking emails nt

[Henry203]

6. The problem here

Is that you get half the story. What ediscovery software does is the data parses out the most important documents where the attorneys put together the entire story. It usually amounts to 30-50 key documents.
This is the problem with this general search. You want to put together the entire story with timelines.

[UTUSN]

5. K&R

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