# Retro Funding: Experts vs Data, reflections from two large scale experiments - Bangkok 2024

- Channel: [Funding the Commons](https://streameth.org/funding_the_commons)
- Date: 2025-10-07
- Duration: 19:36
- Watch: https://streameth.org/watch/yt-y4ROZ5yeCSM
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4ROZ5yeCSM

## Description

Retro Funding: Experts vs Data, reflections from two large scale experiments: Two experimental approaches—metrics-based and expert-driven—offered contrasting insights into optimizing funding allocations. Balancing data efficiency with qualitative human judgment emerged as a key challenge for improving retroactive funding methods.

Speaker: Jonas Seiferth (Optimism)

This session was part of the 11th edition of Funding the Commons, held in Bangkok. 

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