Scanmark LTD is using the Google Data Studio Beta software to create visualization dashboards for subject matter experts. Below is a sample dashboard for IRS Documents. The graphic is fully interactive — click on the Release Week Button in the upper left hand corner and watch the various displays change.
BCA Decision Visualizations Revealed
Scanmark LTD has published the first in a series of visualizations of Board of Contract Appeal decisions, with information indicating whether the contracting party was successful in the decision. The interactive graphic also provides information on the judge issuing the decision.
Scanmark Introducing Data Analytics for US Government Contract Appeals
Scanmark LTD will be releasing a new analytics product that provides access to raw administrative court data. The service, GovContractCrunch, will allow users to review decisions from the Armed Services Board of Contract Appeals, the Civilian Board of Contract Appeals and other admin agencies including the GAO. In addition, the service will use language APIs to discern case outcomes and track tendencies among judges and agencies. The service is scheduled to be released the first of October.
Scanmark LTD Rolling out New Virtual Record Room Application
Scanmark LTD is rolling out a new virtual record room application that may be used by state and local officials to digitize existing paper records. The application combines browsing and search capabilities to allow users to move to digital access more seamlessly. The application also provides image enhancements that improves the readability of historical documents.
US Tax Court Taxpayer Analytics
Presented below is information on likelihood of success by taxpayers in US Tax Court cases based on case type and Tax Court Judge.
Written Determination Analytics
Below are new analytics for written determinations showing the percentages of taxpayer success by week.
Rapidminer Adopted for use by Scanmark
Rapidminer, a well known data analytics platform, has been adopted by Scanmark LTD for use in legal predictive analytics. The application provides numerous plug-ins that allow users to leverage the power of big data tools such as Hadoop and R and present results in a variety of graphical formats.
IRS Written Determinations Analytics
Scanmark LTD provides weekly metrics on IRS written determinations showing pro-taxpayer and pro-government rulings and providing metrics that cover the language used in the rulings and the precedents cited therein. The rulings themselves may be viewed at taxweek.us.
The interactive chart below captures the latest IRS rulings. To select another week, click on the Release Week drop down list and select. The chart show metrics for pro-taxpayer language, pro-government language, precedents cited and whether the taxpayer was successful in the written determination.
US Tax Court Case Analytics
Scanmark LTD is now producing case metrics and outcomes, based on its proprietary linguistic analytics on US Tax Court opinions. Opinions can be viewed at taxweek.us. Case metrics may be viewed based on the decision type and the judge that issued the opinion. The metrics track the amount of pro-taxpayer vs. pro-government language contained in the decision. The study also extracts precedents cited in the decision.
Based on these metrics, the study also determines whether the taxpayer achieves a successful result in the decision.
Scanmark Developing Virtual File Room – Records Room for Digital Access
Scanmark LTD is developing a new virtual file room product for use by the legal, medical and law enforcement industries. The product will allow end users the ability to review documents in a convenient browser-based application and avoid the time consuming task of retrieving paper documents. This, in turn, will allow providers of information to free up space currently being devoted to storing and displaying paper documents.