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You are now here: datademocracy > ECBSpeech: why this webapp

Aims: see the link above (the main page explaining the datademocracy concept), i.e. to "democratize access to data".

Each "case" will contain a different "shape", or "source"- in some cases with data analysis and visualizations.

Whenever there will an interim database to "distill" information from the source, it will be on Github, to enable further reuses without the need to reprocess the source data (sources will be always acknowledged and data tranformations and formatting documented).

Case 1: ECB Speeches 1997-2019 (selection of those with an English title or content) Thanks to the release on 2019-10-25 of a first CSV file containing the speeches listed on the ECB website, this examples enables to search by tag cloud.

As this is just an experiment, it shows, for each keyword, which speaker delivered speeches containing that keyword and in which year.

The dataset used is an augmented version of the CSV dataset with European Central Bank (henceforth ECB); the reference file was the 1997-2019 dataset posted on ECB's website used, updated 2019-10-25 (and then 2020-01-31)

This application contains items published up to 4090 records : 177 blog posts 112 ECB Podcasts 578 interviews 288 press conferences 2935 speeches

items released between 1997-02-07 and 2025-07-14

latest ECB dataset update: 2025-07-01

data available also as word frequencies Kaggle dataset
from 2024-03-25, within a GitHub repository are available also the automated text transcripts of any audio provided within ECB items collected (if the audio is accessible)

New items since 2025-07-07 :

2025-07-08 Claudia Marchini, Alexander Popov: "Trading with dictators? A historical review of the EU’s business partners"
2025-07-09 Philip R. Lane: "The monetary agenda at the ECB"
2025-07-09 Stefania Secola: "Ask the ECB Forum: defence, tariffs and AI – insights from top experts"
2025-07-09 Sabine Mauderer, Livio Stracca: "Climate risks: no longer the tragedy of the horizon"
2025-07-10 Piero Cipollone: "Shifting payment landscape: what a digital euro will bring"
2025-07-11 Isabel Schnabel: "Interview with Econostream Media"
2025-07-11 Frank Elderson: "Banks have made good progress in managing climate and nature risks – and must continue"
2025-07-13 Miles Parker: "Has the heatwave been driving you nuts?"
2025-07-14 Piero Cipollone: "The digital euro: legal tender in the digital age"
2025-07-14 Ulrich Bindseil: "TARGET Services: the backbone of European financial markets"
, and provides for each item the link on ECB's website.

By clicking on a tag (e.g. "euro"), you will see the list of people, and years speeches are available for.

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