Etiqueta: data
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3rd Data EConomy Workshop
And finally, the 3rd edition of the Data EConomy workshop took place on September 5th, co-located with the prestigious VLDB Conference. I had the honour of co chairing the half-day event with Prof. George Konstantinidis, and we enjoyed a great time at the Queen Elizabeth II Centre (QEII Centre) in London. Prof. Paul Groth gave…
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Bachelor Theses on the Data Economy
Yesterday, two bachelor students successfully defended their theses on the monitoring of the emergent data economy. Congratulations! Miguel Eleno García developed and implemented web scraping tools to monitor data markets. He updated my previous work on measuring the price of data in commercial data marketplaces, and built new scrapers to download information about data products…
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Talk@Weizenbaum Institute
Back to Madrid after attending the workshop «Data Solutionism in Servicing the Public. The Changing Interplay between Tech Companies and Public Entities» at the Weizenbaum Institute in the wonderful city of Berlin. We had a lovely multidisciplinary journey to how technology is shaping society. The workshop included talks about different topics: Finally, I gave a…
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Our Interpretable Data Pricing Tool@DEC’25
I’m thrilled to share that I finally had the chance to distill the essence of our data pricing tool into a research paper. Our work, titled «An Interpretable Market-based Data Price Prediction Tool», has been accepted for presentation at the Data Economy Workshop DEC’25, co-located with the prestigious VLDB Conference. See a demo of the…
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Pricing Tool@BDVA
I’m thrilled to present a live demo of the data pricing tool at Big Data Value Association Activity Group 66 meeting next Wednesday 30 April 2025. This meeting will focus on the Economic, business and sustainability aspects of Data and AI and on the recently published AI Continent Action Plan and European Data Union. Many…
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My reads last Easter
I am writing to share with you the books I read last Easter: ‘La Era de la Revancha‘ (‘the Age of Revenge’), by Andrea Rizzi, and ‘Nexus‘ by Yuval Noah Harari. Albeit seemingly unrelated, they both address the profound socio-economic transformation we are living due to the technology revolution from different non-technical perspectives. Andrea Rizzi…
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What’s the data economy, and why should I care?
It was a pleasure giving my talk «What Is the Data Economy, and Why Should I Care?» at the Institute for Research in Technology (IIT) of Univ. Pontificia de Comillas. I intended to raise awareness on this interesting topic. After introducing some basic concepts of the data economy, I pointed to exciting opportunities at the…
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CAMELIA – AI Ethics in Action
2025 starts with good news! We have been awarded an internal innovation project to educate engineering students in the field of AI Ethics using hands-on practical use cases. CAMELIA (CAsos prácticos sobre el Marco Ético y Legal de la Inteligencia Artificial, which translates to Practical Cases on the Ethical and Legal Framework for Artificial Intelligence),…
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What’s the price of my data?
The first prototype of my data pricing tool is ready! Are you a data owner willing to know the value of your assets? Are you a data consumer sizing a sourcing operation? The data pricing tool estimates the market price of a data asset based on its metadata. It’s user-friendly and simple: 1) Just type…
Santiago Andrés Azcoitia 