This course has been developed with Elena Simperl, Professor of Computer Science in ECS, and Dr Luis Daniel Ibáñez. Elena served as programme and general chair to major Semantic Web and Linked Data events, including the European Semantic Web Conference and the International Semantic Web Conference. She is project director for Data Pitch, a Europe-wide data accelerator, and leads ODINE, an EU-funded incubator for open data businesses. Elena is also the programme leader for our MSc in Data Science.