Academic Research Programs from YouTube and Google

Outside researchers bring valuable insights and expertise when conducting studies related to Google products, including Maps, Play, Search, Shopping and YouTube particularly when it comes to Trust & Safety challenges. This workshop has three main purposes:

1. Weʼll aim to demonstrate the current ways in which academics and think tanks can leverage existing Google and YouTube data;
2. Weʼll shed light on the topics and products that researchers have already requested data to explore;
3. Weʼll facilitate a conversation to better understand the needs of researchers in academia, and discuss how we can address those while simultaneously adhering to regulatory requirements and protecting user data privacy and security.

The workshop will also feature a discussion centered on end-to-end data needs (e.g., what are the types of data researchers are most interested in, what formats do they need that data in, what additional information do academics need in the form of documentation to make sense of raw data).

Facilitated by Brent Besson and Angela McKay, Google