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Leiden researchers at hackathon data visualization in the House of Representatives 05 April 2019
On March 20, 2019, a special meeting took place in the House of Representatives: a hackathon. The aim was to find solutions for better accessibility o...
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Data Science in Digital Health in Uganda 08 March 2019
On 27 February, 2019, Kampala International University (KIU) was the venue of the conference ‘Digital Health and Development in Data Science in Uganda...
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Data science and visualisation by the government 08 March 2019
On 20 February 2019, a special meeting on data science took place in the House of Representatives. The aim of the meeting was to start a dialogue with...
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How biased information on the internet can influence research 06 March 2019
The internet is a good place to rapidly collect large amounts of data. But if you don’t watch out you’ll collect very biased, one-sided data. These we...
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United Nations Fellowship awarded to Statistics PhD Kevin Duisters 22 February 2019
United Nations Global Pulse, an initiative of the UN Secretary-General on big data and AI, recently launched the Data Fellows program. Kevin Duisters,...
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Millions of people like and share junk news on Facebook 29 January 2019
Junk news sites with unknown names such as Trendnieuws and Viraal Vandaag reach millions of Dutch people thanks to their Facebook pages. Messages from...
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Interactive models: Matthijs van Leeuwen receives NWO TOP grant 18 January 2019
Matthijs van Leeuwen of the Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science develops methods to make computer models interactive. With interactive model...
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Can we measure the privacy component of online advertising? 16 January 2019
On 29 January 2019, Robbert J. van Eijk will defend his Ph.D thesis, in which he investigates the online advertisements that seem to follow you.
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New strategy LDE Centre for BOLD Cities 07 January 2019
The Leiden-Delft-Erasmus Centre for BOLD Cities uses multidisciplinary big data research to help find solutions for urban problems. ‘BOLD’ stands for ...
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Algorithm Data Science student designs best ship in less time 14 November 2018
Partly thanks to Roy de Winter, ship design and engineering company C-Job Naval Architects now develops optimal ships in a short time. The master's st...
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Wessel Kraaij jointly wins the Mark Everingham prize for TRECVid 14 September 2018
The 2018 IEEE Computer Society PAMI Mark Everingham Prize has been awarded jointly to Wessel Kraaij, Alan Smeaton, Paul Over and George Awad for the “...
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Investigating the impact of nanoparticles on the environment 06 September 2018
On Tuesday 4 September, Martina Vijver delivered the scientific lecture during the academic opening of the Faculty of Science. Martina is professor in...
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Start of second group in data science for policy course at Ministry of IenW 06 September 2018
On Wednesday, 5 September 2018, the second group of employees of the Ministry of Infrastructure and Water Management (IenW) started the managerial tra...
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Carolien Rieffe starts LDE research on autism in high school students 10 July 2018
The Leiden University psychologist Carolien Rieffe will investigate how to create an social climate at high schools, to make young people with autism ...
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First session of new series of grants matchmaking events well visited 05 July 2018
Over 100 participants joined the first grant matchmaking and working session on the call for the Dutch National Research Agenda, on 25 June in the PLN...