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Using statistics to prevent the loss of blood donors10 September 2019The Sanquin blood bank gathers data on every donation. Around 720,000 donations are made every year. ‘That generates a mountain of highly valuable dat...
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Chinese whispers in the name of science at Lowlands18 July 2019As long as we humans have existed, we have told each other stories. But how does a story change each time it is told? Which elements stick and which o...
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Tim van Erven makes computers even smarter15 July 2019In high school, Tim van Erven read about an artificially intelligent algorithm that could solve mazes. From that moment on, he was sold: ‘There’s some...
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Detecting and comparing sign languages28 June 2019For his PhD project, computer scientist Manolis Fragkiadakis is developing a tool that can compare videos of sign language corpora. This would make it...
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Data Science certificates awarded to employees of Ministry IenW26 June 2019On Monday, June 24th, 24 employees of the Ministry of Infrastructure and Water Management (IenW) received their certificates for completing Data Scien...
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A digital eye for archaeologists25 June 2019Wouter Verschoof-van der Vaart is refining an artificial intelligence system that can detect and classify archaeological objects on digital images. Su...
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Building a bridge between data science and the social and behavioural sciences25 June 2019What is the best living environment for dementia patients? To answer this question, Daniela Gawehns is using data mining methods to search through dif...
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The patient forum as a goldmine25 June 2019Patients with certain diseases discuss their experiences and support one another on specialised internet forums. With the right data-science methods, ...
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Searching for 27 million patterns in 6,000 tax treaties24 June 2019PhD candidate Manon Wintgens is using an algorithm to trawl through thousands of international tax treaties. She hopes to detect a system in the dizzy...
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Leiden researchers at hackathon data visualization in the House of Representatives05 April 2019On 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 Uganda08 March 2019On 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 research06 March 2019The 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 Duisters22 February 2019United 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’28 January 2019On 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 grant18 January 2019Matthijs van Leeuwen of the Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science develops methods to make computer models interactive. With interactive model...