Regex is not necessarily the best intro to coding, but for a lawyer, it will animate much of what follows by quickly delivering value. At least in my practice, we'll commonly encounter terabyte-sized productions of data during litigation, and the search tools are just awful. For folks in litigation, the power of regex, once past the learning curve, will quickly provide value and might motivate them to dig deeper.
If anything, this list of topics is not law-specific enough. I'd suggest a tutorial on the format of doc production of load files, tesseract, and pdf-manipulation tools for those dealing with doc productions. And a tutorial on relational databases would be very useful for those lawyers drafting discovery requests trying to extract "documents" from ERP systems.
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Regex is not necessarily the best intro to coding, but for a lawyer, it will animate much of what follows by quickly delivering value. At least in my practice, we'll commonly encounter terabyte-sized productions of data during litigation, and the search tools are just awful. For folks in litigation, the power of regex, once past the learning curve, will quickly provide value and might motivate them to dig deeper.
If anything, this list of topics is not law-specific enough. I'd suggest a tutorial on the format of doc production of load files, tesseract, and pdf-manipulation tools for those dealing with doc productions. And a tutorial on relational databases would be very useful for those lawyers drafting discovery requests trying to extract "documents" from ERP systems.