Common Crawl Foundation | Preserving Humanity's Knowledge and Making it Accessible: Addressing Challenges of Public Web Data
Learn about Common Crawl's insights from a recent data product and informed solutions for the future of public web data.
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Learn about Common Crawl's insights from a recent data product and informed solutions for the future of public web data.
This session is specifically designed for full-time graduate students within one year of obtaining their PhD, as well as current postdoctoral scholars, fellows, and researchers.

This session is specifically designed for full-time graduate students within one year of obtaining their PhD, as well as current postdoctoral scholars, fellows, and researchers.
Save the Date. Artificial intelligence is transforming how researchers collect, analyze, and learn from data. As AI systems become increasingly integrated into scientific discovery, business decision-making, and policy analysis, they are reshaping both the questions researchers can ask and the methods they use to answer them.

Save the Date. Artificial intelligence is transforming how researchers collect, analyze, and learn from data. As AI systems become increasingly integrated into scientific discovery, business decision-making, and policy analysis, they are reshaping both the questions researchers can ask and the methods they use to answer them.
The rapid acceleration of AI comes with a profound wave of anxiety. Across every sector of society, people are facing unsettling questions about their worth and their place in a shifting world.

The rapid acceleration of AI comes with a profound wave of anxiety. Across every sector of society, people are facing unsettling questions about their worth and their place in a shifting world.
The Common Crawl Foundation is dedicated to preserving humanity's knowledge and making it accessible through its free public web dataset, a vital resource since 2008. As AI development accelerates, concerns have emerged regarding the accessibility and transparency of public web data, impacting open datasets in three key ways: robots.txt exclusions, legal demands, and "bot defenses." Two of these are not visible in public and are not very well understood. In this seminar, Common Crawl will present insights from a new data product that utilizes Common Crawl's crawl metadata to visually explore these three problems, advocating for greater transparency and informed solutions for the future of public web data.