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Data Science in Digital Health in UgandaOn 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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How biased information on the internet can influence researchThe 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 DuistersUnited 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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‘Privacy is shifting from Big Brother to Kafka’On the Day of Privacy, 28 January, the European Commission is calling on citizens to make sure they protect their personal data. But how do you do tha...
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Interactive models: Matthijs van Leeuwen receives NWO TOP grantMatthijs 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?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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Investigating the impact of nanoparticles on the environmentOn 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 IenWOn 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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How can we connect data science and law?At the Hague University of Applied Sciences, a stakeholder meeting took place on 4 April in the context of peace and justice in a digital world. The m...
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Symposium with first cohort of Data Science PhD studentsOn Tuesday, January 30th, the first symposium of the Data Science Research Programme took place at the Sylvius Building.
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Aske Plaat and Catholijn Jonker at BNR De Nieuwe WereldIn the BNR Newsradioprogram De Nieuwe Wereld, professors Aske Plaat (Data Science) and Catholijn Jonker (Explainable AI) of the computer science insti...
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'Biologists also need to be a bit of a data analyst’Biologists today have to be able to work with big data. Data analysis skills should be taught from the start of the degree programme, or - even better...
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Magnifying the minuteMaking all those things we normally cannot see visible is the challenge that fascinates Fons Verbeek, Leiden's new Professor of Computational Bio-Imag...
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Making policy with big dataGovernments have increasing amounts of data at their disposal. How can big data be used in policymaking? And are governments ready to deal with all th...
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Wessel Kraaij recognized as Distinguished Member of the ACM for outstanding contributions to computingOn November 8, the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) named Wessel Kraaij as one of the 2017 Distinguished Members. ACM Distinguished Members h...