By Tisha Davis, Derek Ametam and Joe Wanzala 

This is the sixth installment in our series on dtSearch. In this installment, we’ll continue to explore how to actually search your discovery data and make the most of dtSearch’s powerful search capabilities. You can find the previous installments here: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4 and Part 5

In this installment, we will explore how to leverage dtSearch’s advanced Search features to further refine and expand your searches. These powerful options—such as fuzzy searching, synonym searching, stemming, phonic searching, and more—allow you to handle common real-world challenges like misspellings, OCR errors, varied terminology, and conceptual relationships.

By Tisha Davis, Derek Ametam and Joe Wanzala 

This is the fifth installment in our series on dtSearch. In the previous posts, we covered how to set up and configure an index. In this installment, we’ll begin exploring  how to actually search your discovery data and make the most of dtSearch’s powerful search capabilities.  You can find the previous installments here: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3 and Part 4.

dtSearch is built to help users rapidly and accurately find relevant information within massive datasets. It provides a versatile, layered set of search tools that can be used individually or combined for greater power and flexibility. Key components include Search requests, advanced Search features, Search within a Search (i.e. iterative or nested searching), Browse Words, and the User Thesaurus.

By Alex Roberts

Note: Here is a quickstart video that demonstrates how to set up a new dtSearch index and search it. Index set up is also described in the dtSearch Guide parts III and IV. Searching an index will be detailed in future posts.

Here is a brief 12-minute video that demonstrates how to set up a new dtSearch index and how to run searches within an index.

Licenses for dtSearch are available for CJA panel attorneys with current, active cases at no cost.  If you are interested in obtaining a license, please fill out a dtSearch request form, at: http://nlsblog.org/2014/03/25/dtsearch-desktop/.  

Note: like most litigation software programs, this program was developed for Windows-based operating systems and does not work with Macintosh operating systems.