Sourcing Hackathon 1 – 02

On a well-known academic website, I saw a long PDF file that had a very interesting section related to blockchain and its repercussions in the online educative sphere. I believe that the authors were Polish.

What was the title?

Password is the last word of that title.

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The task requires the use of Boolean operators and also some creativity. Simple googling “filetype:PDF AND Blockchain AND Education AND Poland” won’t lead you to the answer.

Let’s look further into the task. For instance, the reference to online education seems important and the online education sphere is mostly represented by Online courses. Let’s try to add that to our search query. “filetype:PDF AND Blockchain AND Education AND “Online courses” AND Poland” This will get closer to success with the right article, “The Impact of the Digital World on Management and Marketing”, in the seventh place in the Google search output.

However, you would still need to spend time excluding the previous articles by reading them and finding the irrelevant ones. What would you do here? You could have either assumed the name of the well-known academic site (1) or made an assumption that Polish authors writing about Blockchain (a new disrupting technology) came from the leading schools in Economics in the country (2).

(1) If you are well aware of the academic sites, you could have added them to the search query: “filetype:PDF AND Blockchain AND Education AND “Online courses” AND Poland AND (Researchgate OR Academia OR Mendeley OR JSTOR)”. Thus, you will get “The Impact of the Digital World on Management and Marketing” as the first result in the search output.

(2) According to QS World University Rankings, Warsaw School of Economics and University of Warsaw are the best ones in the country. Using “filetype:PDF AND Blockchain AND Education AND “Online courses” AND Poland AND “University of Warsaw” AND “Warsaw School of Economics” ” would output only one result which is the needed article, “The Impact of the Digital World on Management and Marketing”.

Correct answer: The Impact of the Digital World on Management and Marketing

And the password is: Marketing

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