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Analysing diseases through interactive visual interfaces 07 December 2020Alzheimer’s disease and cancer are two examples of diseases that are related to malfunctioning cellular patterns. The examination of cell tissue, howe...
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Green Light from the Advisory Board Legal Technologies program 27 November 2020Technological developments are rapidly advancing. The Leiden Legal Technologies Program was on the agenda of the Advisory Committee at their second me...
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Sport Data Center appointed as Certified Partner of Sportinnovator 12 October 2020The Sport Data Center, a consortium of universities of which Leiden University is leader, is recognised as a Certified Partner of Sportinnovator. This...
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Young Star Maite Boden broadens her horizon 25 September 2020At the beginning of 2020, Maite Boden became the first student ever to receive the Young Star award. She received the award for her contribution to re...
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Data science at the Netherlands Tax and Customs Administration 24 July 2020How can data science improve tax administration? Mark Pijnenburg, a senior data scientist at the Netherlands Tax and Customs Administration, decided t...
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How Zero shot learning changes the world 03 July 2020On June 22, the week of data literacy started. The week was organized by PublicNL in close collaboration with LCDS. The essence was: How do we deal wi...
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Governments working with one hand tied when it comes to data on vulnerable groups 03 July 2020A new discussion paper published in Policy Sciences by two Leiden researchers claims that governments are working with one hand tied when it comes to ...
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First Advisory Board meeting Legal Technologies programme 03 July 2020In The Hague, the Leiden Centre of Data Science (LCDS) in close collaboration with the Centre for Professional Learning (CPL) is developing a Legal Te...
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Digital infrastructure for research into the social network of the full Dutch population 05 June 2020An interdisciplinary consortium consisting of Leiden University, the University of Amsterdam (UvA) and Statistics Netherlands (CBS), receives €1 mill...
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Archaeology thanks to computer-based research 04 February 2020A mix of data research, artificial intelligence and archaeology led to lively discussions on 31 January. On that day the unique event 'AI & Data Scien...
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Searching explanations for mysterious structures in protoplanetary disks 12 December 2019In the discs of dust and gasses around young stars, mysterious structures occur. Together with professor Ewine van Dishoeck, PhD student Paolo Cazzole...
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Master's students Data Science present solutions to central government and the House of Representatives 20 November 2019On 1 November 2019, international Master's students Data Science from Leiden University presented the elaboration of their data concepts to senior off...
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GO FAIR Implementation Network Africa launched in Leiden 26 September 2019On 22 August, the GO-FAIR IN Africa was launched: an implementation network under the GO FAIR efforts to train, build and change the next generation o...
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Using statistics to prevent the loss of blood donors 10 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 Lowlands 18 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...