Events
Harvard Data Science Review Special Issue "Democratizing Data: Discovering Data Use For Research And Policy"
View the recordings and the presentation slides from the Harvard Data Science Review's Democratizing Data webinar.
Day 1 Sessions | May 21, 2024
From the Editors
A Panoramic View of the Special Issue [WATCH ON YOUTUBE]
- Xiao-Li Meng, Department of Statistics, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Harvard University; Harvard Data Science Review, Harvard Data Science Initiative, Harvard University
The Vision of Democratizing Data [PRESENTATION SLIDES] [WATCH ON YOUTUBE]
- Nancy Potok, New York University
The New Importance of Data for Evidence Building
The View From Four Statistical Agencies [WATCH ON YOUTUBE]
- Spiro Stefanou, Economic Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture
- Joe Parsons, National Agricultural Statistics Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture
The Importance of Philanthropic Foundations in Democratizing Data [WATCH ON YOUTUBE]
- Jonathan Sotsky, Overdeck Family Foundation
- Daniel Goroff, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
- Stu Feldman, Schmidt Sciences
The Value of Data
An Invisible Hand for Creating Value From Data [PRESENTATION SLIDES] [WATCH ON YOUTUBE]
- Julia Lane, New York University
- Alfred Spector, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
A Mapping Lens for Estimating Data Value [PRESENTATION SLIDES] [WATCH ON YOUTUBE]
- Abhishek Nagaraj, University of California Berkeley; National Bureau of Economic Research
Scale, Publishing, and Open Data [WATCH ON YOUTUBE]
- Ian Mulvany, BMJ Publishing Group Ltd
Search Methods
Discovering Data Sets Through Machine Learning: An Ensemble Approach to Uncovering the Prevalence of Government-Funded Data Sets [PRESENTATION SLIDES] [WATCH ON YOUTUBE]
- Ryan Hausen, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Johns Hopkins University
Discovering Datasets on the Web Scale: Challenges and Recommendations for Google Dataset Search [PRESENTATION SLIDES] [WATCH ON YOUTUBE]
- Tarfah Alrashed, Google Research
Day 2 Sessions | May 22, 2024
Discovery Methods
Discovering Data Sets in Unstructured Corpora: Discovering Use and Identifying New Opportunities [PRESENTATION SLIDES] [WATCH ON YOUTUBE]
- Nick Pallotta, National Agricultural Statistics Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture
- Adel Alaeddini, School of Data Science, The University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA)
Searching for How Data Have Been Used: Intuitive Labels for Data Search and Discovery [PRESENTATION SLIDES] [WATCH ON YOUTUBE]
- Emilda Rivers, National Science Foundation
Practical Implementation
Turning Visions Into Reality: Lessons Learned From Building a Search and Discovery Platform [PRESENTATION SLIDES] [WATCH ON YOUTUBE]
- Attila Emecz, Elsevier
A Practical Use Case: Lesson Learned From Social Science Research Data Centers [PRESENTATION SLIDES] [WATCH ON YOUTUBE]
- Stefan Bender, Deutsche Bundesbank
- Christian Hirsch, Deutsche Bundesbank
Creating Engagements: Bringing the User Into Data Democratization [PRESENTATION SLIDES] [WATCH ON YOUTUBE]
- Lauren Chenarides, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, Colorado State University
Building Collaborative Communities
On Democratizing Data: Diminishing Disparity and Increasing Scientific Productivity [PRESENTATION SLIDES] [WATCH ON YOUTUBE]
- Ophir Frieder, Georgetown University Medical Center, Georgetown University
The Future of Data in Research Publishing: From Nice to Have to Need to Have? [PRESENTATION SLIDES] [WATCH ON YOUTUBE]
- Christine L. Borgman, University of California Los Angeles
Building Trust: Data Metrics as a Focal Point for Responsible Data Stewardship [PRESENTATION SLIDES] [WATCH ON YOUTUBE]
- Daniella Lowenberg, Office of the President, University of California
- Iratxe Puebla, DataCite
Enabling Responsible Artificial Intelligence Research and Development Through the Democratization of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure [PRESENTATION SLIDES] [WATCH ON YOUTUBE]
- Manish Parashar, Scientific Computing and Imaging (SCI) Institute, University of Utah