My Favourite Tipples from a Legal Information Professional
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By Jackie Fishleigh

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My Favourite Tipples are shared by Jackie Fishleigh, library and information manager at law firm Payne Hicks Beach. She highlights favourite online resources including some from the legal field and others for budget calculations.

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I'm library and information manager at law firm Payne Hicks Beach. Firstly I've chosen my top legal websites, in reverse order, for added excitement (!):

• Wildy bookshop website: If you're looking for a legal textbook then this is the cyber place to go. Wildy, who have been selling books since 1830, have over 7,800 titles in stock. It is a very easy to use and up to date website.
  
  
• Bailii (British and Irish Legal Information Institute): Bailii (pronounced bay-lee) was established in 2001 as a registered charity to provide free online access to quality legal information. Its 90 databases cover both legislation and cases. It has a feed of all judgments of the Court of Appeal and is a great quick way of finding recent, unreported cases, as well as transcripts of cases.
  
  
• Supreme Court live: This is where the sharpest legal brains in the country chew over and dissect the most important and complex cases in the land. Justice must be seen to be done and so the court live-streams judgments in real time through its website.
  
  An iPlayer–type on demand service was launched in May and the footage can be viewed via a link on the case's page on the court's website.

I've also chosen two websites which aren't from the legal sphere.

• Percentage Calculator and Crazy Squirrel Finance: I find these useful for budget calculations! The red squirrel is rather cute.

On a personal note, I like to look at the Evening Standard website in my free time.

• London Evening Standard: This website means I can keep up with what is happening in this, the greatest city in the world! Lots of great photos and interviews - and especially good for breaking news.

An article in FreePint which I found particularly interesting: 

• I've found Chris Wall's big data case study, published in May 2015, very interesting. This focuses on Carterwood, a small but rapidly expanding chartered surveying practice which specialises in later life healthcare.
  
  Although the quantity of data-mining involved is tiny in comparison to, say, the amount used by pharmaceutical companies to develop new drugs, the way Carterwood uses publicly available and purchasable data sources to generate new insights is impressive. Outputs from geocoding, planning research and demographics are dropped into a complex Excel template.
  
  The article aims to illustrate that big data projects do not have to be on the scale of the Large Hadron Collider! Having given presentations on big data at both the Perfect Information and Ark Conferences last year, I know that audiences like real life examples to understand how big data works and so that they can see in practice that it is not just a lot of  jargon and hype! Chris Wall's article is a very useful addition to the existing literature in this field. 

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