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Lobel’s Equality Machine, and the yin-yang of AI
I enjoyed reading «The Equality Machine» by Orly Lobel. The book elaborates on the opportunity of «harnessing digital technology for a brighter, more inclusive future» that digitalisation and artificial intelligence offer to improve our world and to overcome historical biases and discrimination against women, races, or specific social collectives. Orly casts fresh optimistic messages, for…
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Try Before You Buy to bootstrap data markets
Bootstrapping data intermediation service providers (DISP) is far from straightforward. This is because of the chicken-and-egg problem stemming from Arrow’s information paradox. On the one hand, buyers have trouble deciding whether acquiring a dataset makes sense before they have tested it on their ML model. On the other hand, sharing a dataset in advance means…
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Happy 2024!
Back to work and fully charged after some restoring holidays enjoying family and friends in my hometown, Cuenca, Spain. Welcome 2024. I wish you all a meaningful, healthy, prosperous, and very happy new year.
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DMs & DGA: a Business Perspective
A pleasure working with Alba Ribera Martínez on this text about Data Marketplaces and the Data Governance Act: A Business Model Perspective, which was published in Kluwer Competition Law Blog. The Data Governance Act sets up a harmonised framework for the development of trustworthy data intermediation services in the Union to enable a competitive environment…
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A Retrospective Look at the Future of the Data Economy
Once my doctoral thesis has been finalised, it is worth reflecting on where the data economy is heading to and what future works may be worth developing based on the findings and conclusions of my PhD. During the defense, I was asked several specific questions about this, and I am leaving here some thoughts on…
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A successful thesis defense involves many people
Enrolling in a Computer Science PhD means riding a roller coaster of hard work, disappointment and joy, of illusion and delusion, of designing, coding, analysing, writing, presenting… Doing it after more than 20 years’ experience in the industry may be described by many people as a pure act of insanity. Starting it three months before…
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Extended Report – A Survey of DMs and their business models
An extended version of our survey of data marketplaces is out! Data is becoming an indispensable production factor for the modern economy, matching or exceeding in importance traditional factors such as land, infrastructure, labor and capital. As part of this, a wide range of applications in different sectors require huge amounts of information to feed…
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Towards a Human-Centric Data Economy
Spurred by widespread adoption of artificial intelligence and machine learning, “data” is becoming a key production factor, comparable in importance to capital, land, or labour in an increasingly digital economy. In spite of an ever-growing demand for third-party data in the B2B market, firms are generally reluctant to share their information. This is due to…
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About the Value of Personal Data
“Data” is becoming a key production factor, comparable in importance to capital, land, or labour in an increasingly digital economy. Due to the unique characteristics of “data” as an economic good, data markets are underperforming, concentrated and geographically imbalanced, which undermines the immense potential of machine learning and artificial intelligence.Aiming to unlock this potential, several…
Santiago Andrés Azcoitia 