Co-chairs: Peter Winker and Andreas Artemiou.

Description: This WG will investigate data generation and management. It will assist in the establishment of generalized models to be used after for inference. It will have strong connections with WG 5, as they will be the data producers. Different sub-groups of this WG will work in parallel to cover different kind of complex data and their inherent characteristics. Special attention will be paid to the case of text data.

Main tasks- To investigate natural data generation processes for complex data, the statistical effect of the text data preprocessing, Bayesian and non-Bayesian alternatives for topic modelling, EDA tools for complex data useful in economics.