MoDAT 2014 - Designing the Market of Data - for Practical Data Sharing via Educational and Innovative Communications (MoDAT)

This is a FULL DAY workshop about how to create and design the market of data, where data are reasonably dealt with -- sold, opened, or shared based on negotiation. Since last year, we have been aiming at realizing a social environment where each person on earth feels free to share one’s own and others’ data, with learning latent values of data, without fearing the loss of business opportunities.
Since the first MoDAT in ICDM2013, we have been observing effects of communication in experimental markets of data. Among other effects, humans’ thoughts for and by sharing/combining data turned out to be innovative in that born ideas tend to lead to novel and productive proposals in real businesses. Also, the effect was educative in that participants tend to learn methods and techniques for analyzing latent dynamics behind data. Reflecting such observations, this year we shall extend discussions in MoDAT to understand and design an environment for educational and innovative communications. And, in the market of data, a data scientist is expected to learn techniques for data mining from others who have been working on data from different domains. Analogies based on similarities between data are expected to accelerate such learning, and such the analogy may be aided by visualized correlations among features of data and among success/failure cases of analyses.
Here we call for anyone interested in designing a marketplace where people communicate to share data, knowledge, or experiences, and (re)use them. People in the market may also learn that interdisciplinary communication with data triggers participants’ innovations, or that the social responsibility of data provider is more important than the reward for selling data. Relevant topics are (not restricted to):
Innovators Marketplace(R) on Data Jackets, an approach toward MoDAT, has been also introduced as an educational summer program in The University of Tokyo as well as the concluding session of MoDAT 2013.