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vavoida

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About vavoida

@vavoida co-founder @getarchify net/tech/opendata/economics/politics

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    Comment #16435900

    We will see.

  2. comment
    Comment #16435881

    we, the OKFDE, have no partnership with Bertelsmann our partner, algorithmwatch, has - independently from this project - funding from Bertelsmann Stiftung again the data is first d…

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    Comment #16400153

    As stated before, we are not only asking for SCHUFA but also arvato data, see blogpost https://okfn.de/blog/2018/02/openschufa-english/#update

  4. comment
    Comment #16393115

    http://openschufa.de will be place for updates will take a couple of weeks, project will run for months to come

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    Comment #16393099

    You are welcome!

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    Comment #16392668

    We are trying to convince them. Here are the live stats from the requests https://selbstauskunft.net/statistiken Skewed demographics are on the radar (we know we are in bubble). EU…

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    Comment #16392633

    wrt algo - afaik the biggest credit rating agency in Germany is "just" using a logistic regression. details will follow.

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    Comment #16392394

    The data and credit scores are sent from the credit score agencies to each person directly (via snail-mail). After that they can decide to upload their "anonymized" data or not. In…

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    Comment #16392166

    see this information https://www.settle-in-berlin.com/what-is-schufa/

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    Comment #16392122

    btw. we are requestion infoscore aka Bertelsmann - data see stats https://okfn.de/blog/2018/02/openschufa-english/#update

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    Comment #16392075

    1. date is not open yet, first people have to request the data (will take probalby 4-6 weeks until they get the credit scores) 2. see below https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=163…

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    Comment #16391951

    just raw images would cause major privacy & data protection issues

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    Comment #16391885

    a. is disclosed by our partner algorithmwatch b. the funding is not for this project c. see https://twitter.com/OpenSchufa/status/964408780162150400 "Die SCHUFA ist die bekannteste…

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    Comment #16391830

    FYI in case you speak German, this project is currently all over the news in Germany, causing quite a stir. TV http://www.tagesschau.de/inland/schufa-101.html https://www1.wdr.de/m…

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    Comment #16039895

    yes, there are better explanations for the Double Irish Dutch Sandwich http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2012/04/28/business/Doubl... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EFKGmmm-j5M

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    Comment #14177943

    nice service, I like the idea of the automatic pgp-key-lookup-service

  17. comment
    Comment #13712437

    nice projects in 1st round https://prototypefund.de/projects/

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    Comment #12201171

    talking about funding 100.000 Euro funding available (total €5.5 million) for opendata startups & SMEs https://opendataincubator.eu/apply deadline by 30.08.2016

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    Comment #7503711

    also check http://www.savetheinternet.eu/ 2 days in Europe before the vote

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    Startups for #netneutrality

    also only 2 days to go in Europe see http://www.savetheinternet.eu/

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    Comment #7227813

    kudos - great team!

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    Comment #7071883

    metacontent (message content) & metadata -> smiley face, slide 2 interesting definition of metacontent

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    Leafly.com - VC backed Marijuana Dispensary & Strain Reviews.

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