Chicago Data Night: Raul Castro Fernandez (UChicago)

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Monthly Chicago Data Night, cohosted by ChiData and DSI.

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Please join us for our monthly Chicago Data Night, cohosted by <a href="https://uchi-db.github.io/chidatasite/" title="https://uchi-db.github.io/chidatasite/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">ChiData</a> and <a href="https://datascience.uchicago.edu/" title="https://datascience.uchicago.edu/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">DSI</a>. Practitioners, academics, and aficionados within the Chicago area are all invited to be part of a community at the intersection of industry and academia, brought together by a mutual interest in data. Each month, guest speakers will cover a specific data-related topic.Hors d'oeuvres and drinks will be provided. Admission is free, and we strongly encourage an RSVP to attend.Abstract: On Data Ecology, Data Markets, the Value of Data, and Dataflow Governance. Data shapes our social, economic, cultural, and technological environments. Data is valuable, so people seek it, inducing data to flow. The resulting dataflows distribute data and thus value. For example, large Internet companies profit from accessing data from their users, and engineers of large language models seek large and diverse data sources to train powerful models. It is possible to judge the impact of data in an environment by analyzing how the dataflows in that environment impact the participating agents. My research hypothesizes that it is also possible to design (better) data environments by controlling what dataflows materialize; not only can we analyze environments but also synthesize them. In this talk, I present the research agenda on “data ecology,” which seeks to build the principles, theory, algorithms, and systems to design beneficial data environments. I will also present examples of data environments my group has designed, including data markets for machine learning, data-sharing, and data integration. I will conclude by discussing the impact of dataflows in data governance and how the ideas are interwoven with the concepts of trust, privacy, and the elusive notion of “data value.” As part of the technical discussion, I will complement the data market designs with the design of a data escrow system that permits controlling dataflows.Raul Castro Fernandez: Assistant Professor, Computer Science, University of Chicago. In my research, I ask what is the value of data and explore the potential of data markets to unlock that value. My group collaborates with economists, legal scholars, statisticians, and domain scientists. We build systems to share, discover, prepare, integrate, and process data. I have traditionally worked on distributed query processing systems and continue to do so. I have received a SIGMOD'23 Test-of-time-Award. I am an assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science and on the Committee of Data Science at The University of Chicago. Before UChicago, I did a postdoc at MIT with Sam Madden and Mike Stonebraker. And before that, I completed a PhD at Imperial College London with Peter Pietzuch.Meeting Location The Auditorium at 1871 Merchandise Mart, #1212 222 W Merchandise Mart Plaza Chicago, IL 60654Getting to 1871 in the MARTFor easy access, guests should enter through the Orleans entrance on the west side of the Merchandise Mart and take those elevators to the 12th floor. Additionally, any elevators in the Merchandise Mart that access the 12th floor will also work.<h4>Parking</h4>Reserve discounted parking steps from the <a href="http://spothero.com/chicago/merchandise-mart-parking?" title="http://spothero.com/chicago/merchandise-mart-parking?" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Merchandise Mart</a> with SpotHero. Download the SpotHero<a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/spothero-parking-deals/id499097243?mt=8" title="https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/spothero-parking-deals/id499097243?mt=8" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer"> iPhone</a>|<a href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.spothero.spothero&amp;hl=en" title="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.spothero.spothero&amp;hl=en" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Android</a> App or visit the<a href="http://spothero.com/chicago/merchandise-mart-parking" title="http://spothero.com/chicago/merchandise-mart-parking" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer"> SpotHero Website</a> to book your spot in advance! Use code 1871 for an extra $5 off!Parking ValidationThere is also discounted parking at the 210 N. Wells, 401 N. Wells, and 437 N. Orleans Self-Park Garages for 1871 tenants and guests.210 N. Wells Self-Park Instructions$8.00 – Monday – Friday: enter between 3:00pm – 11:59pm, out by 8:00am$14.00 – For up to 12 hours of parking anytime

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