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Start of second group in data science for policy course at Ministry of IenW 06 September 2018On 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? 26 April 2018At 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 students 31 January 2018On Tuesday, January 30th, the first symposium of the Data Science Research Programme took place at the Sylvius Building.
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'Biologists also need to be a bit of a data analyst’ 16 January 2018Biologists 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 minute 11 January 2018Making 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 data 14 November 2017Governments 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 computing 09 November 2017On November 8, the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) named Wessel Kraaij as one of the 2017 Distinguished Members. ACM Distinguished Members h...
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Artificial intelligence to extend, not replace human capabilities 26 October 2017Computers are increasingly able to accomplish tasks that are difficult for human experts, such as diagnosing diseases or detecting credit card fraud. ...
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Leiden bachelor students analyse data EC soccer 04 September 2017Leiden bachelor students analyse data EC soccer Students are now familiar with something sports journalists already knew: summer holidays can be a ti...
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‘Behaviour comes to us in big data’ 15 August 2017Jurist Gineke Wiggers wants to predict the expected impact of legal articles. Carel Stolker, Rector of the University and, like Wiggers, a legal speci...
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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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Working with datasets that are larger than the entire university 30 May 2017Radio 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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Major Expansion Leiden Quantum Computing 08 May 2017The 18.8 million euro NWO Zwaartekracht grant for quantum software which Amsterdam, Delft and Leiden landed collectively, means for Leiden University ...
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Generating fake news automatically as a research project 28 March 2017By spreading fake news via TV spots and Twitter with the use of Social Bots, Pascal professor Heike Trautmann is investigating the characteristics of ...
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Big data on a small scale 03 March 2017Mirjam 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...