News
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Data analysis is really helping the Dutch national women’s football team 10 July 2017
The European Football Championship for Women, in the Netherlands this summer, is the background for a large and innovative data research project. The ...
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Leiden University hosts world championship computer chess 08 July 2017
At the annual World Computer Chess Championship, chess computers from all over the world compete with each other. This year, Leiden University hosted ...
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Prof. Jaap van den Herik successfully delivers 75th PhD 30 June 2017
On June 27th, eLaw PhD candidate Mr. Daniel Dimov successfully defended his PhD thesis. This was not only a very special event for the candidate, but ...
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Working with datasets that are larger than the entire university 30 May 2017
Radio telescope LOFAR maps the sky. It produces incredibly detailed images of the universe - and vast amounts of data. Huub Röttgering, director of th...
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Thousands of images of frozen bacteria 28 March 2017
How do bacteria sense and adapt to their environment? Ariane Briegel, Professor of Ultrastructural Biology, is intrigued by this question. Using new t...
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Alumni mentors answer student’s questions 23 March 2017
Students get free advice of Leiden alumni about their career, applying for a job, social networking and more. The Mentor Network is an online platform...
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Eritrean regime trades its own nationals in a billion-dollar trafficking business 09 March 2017
The human trafficking of Eritrean refugees is a booming business, where money is made with smuggling people, but also using violence, hostage situatio...
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Big data on a small scale 03 March 2017
Mirjam van Reisen favours big data built up from local inputs in developing countries and suitable for local use. The new Professor of Computing for S...
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Big data cannot do without statistics 28 February 2017
Data science and statistics are closely linked, says Spinoza laureate and Stochastics professor Aad van der Vaart. We talk with him about the big data...
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Sharing personal health data 21 February 2017
Comparing individual health data with group data allows doctors to give personalised advice and patients to learn from one another's experiences. Wess...
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Designing a smart city together 31 January 2017
How can we make clever use of new technologies to improve quality of life in cities? The answer is in the NL Smart City Strategy, which Mark Rutte off...
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Jaap van den Herik in Advisory Board WODC 31 January 2017
As of January 2017, LCDS-director Jaap van den Herik has been appointed member of the Advisory Board of WODC.
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Unexpected data are good for business 26 January 2017
Data play an important role in any organization. More and more data are available about products, about production processes and about customers. At t...
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From scarcity to abundance: big data in archaeology 17 January 2017
New digital methods and a data explosion are radically changing archaeological research. Karsten Lambers, Associate Professor of Archaeological Comput...
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Sifting through data the smart way 11 January 2017
We produce more data than ever before, and researchers gather more and more information. That data contains a wealth of insights and new possibilities...