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Cooperation between Data School and University of Helsinki
Data School will cooperate with the Helsinki Institute of Social Sciences and Humanities (HSSH). For the coming three years 2022-2023, Mirko Tobias Schäfer has been appointed a Visiting Professor to University of Helsinki. Mirko will cooperate closely with the groups of Minna Ruckenstein and Matti Nelimarkka. Mirko’s research interest revolves around datafication of citizens, government…
Read moreAntisemitisme in de Nederlandse online-sfeer in 2020
Download rapport Aanleiding Het CIDI registreert jaarlijks antisemitische incidenten in haar Monitor Antisemitische Incidenten. In deze monitor worden echter uitsluitend meldingen van antisemitisme behandeld die zich afspelen in de fysieke sfeer. In het coronajaar 2020 waren fysieke ontmoetingen en interacties behoorlijk beperkt. Terwijl de samenleving noodgedwongen overwegend online communiceerde, bleven uitingen van antisemitisme in de…
Read moreUtrecht University AI Lab Digital Humanities funding awarded to Data School for a co-financed PhD position with De Groene Amsterdammer
Principal investigator: Karin van Es (Data School) Co-applications: Mirko Tobias Schäfer and Joris Veerbeek (both Data School), Kees van Deemter (Information and Computing Sciences), Ayoub Bagheri (Methodology and Statistics), Beatrice de Graaf and Pim Huijnen (both History); PhD ‘Employing text classification models for journalistic inquiry on public debates‘ – Joris Veerbeek, MA Together with Dutch…
Read moreNew horizons
Starting March 1st, 2022, Data School (Data School) will become part of the Centre for Digital Humanities (CDH) at Utrecht University under the joint deanship of the Faculty of Science and the Faculty of Humanities. Investigating the implications of AI and datafication for our digital society requires concerted interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary efforts. Over the past…
Read moreGezocht: Junior Onderzoeker Datawerkplaats
Deadline reageren: 15 maart 2022 Startdatum: per 1 april 2022 of per 1 mei 2022 Contractduur: in overleg Gezocht Data School, onderdeel van Universiteit Utrecht, zoekt een junior onderzoeker voor 0,2 fte (1 dag in de week). Salaris is conform dat van een student-assistent. Ben jij goed in het schakelen tussen verschillende partijen? Vind je…
Read moreVacancy: knowledge and data engineer
For a project on Bias in Open Knowledge Graphs we are looking for a knowledge and data engineer. Job description The candidate will develop an application to automatically detect the different kinds of bias in Linked Open Data. This will be done through the utilization of machine learning and descriptive statistics. The application will support…
Read moreInsights into the Data School
This text is a translation of the original publication at the Weizenbaum Institute for the Network Society. In September 2021, Bennet Etsiwah, research associate in the research group “Data-driven Business Model Innovations” at the German Weizenbaum Institute, was a visiting researcher at the Data School (Data School). In the following report, he explains what this…
Read moreAre Knowledge Graph Embedding Models Biased, or Is it the Data That They Are Trained on?
Paper presentation by Wessel Radstok for 2nd Wikidata Workshop co-located with the 20th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2021) http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-2982/ Radstok, Wessel, Melisachew Wudage Chekol, and Mirko Tobias Schafer. Are Knowledge Graph Embedding Models Biased, or Is it the Data That They Are Trained on? In: Proceedings of the 2nd Wikidata Workshop (Wikidata 2021), 20th…
Read moreOA Book Call for Contributions
Making a Difference!Novel Research Methods in the Datafied Society Background: Schäfer and Lauriault are critical, theoretical and practice based scholars who do data work within and beyond the academy. While doing so they have experienced the tension between the expectations of traditional forms of scholarly funded research, and doing novel forms of socially relevant empirical…
Read moreCall for Participants | Online Data School Summer School 2021: ‘Exploring Culture Through Data’
Are you curious, eager to learn and would you like to have an enriching experience during your summer holidays? The Data School Summer School would make a great opportunity! We are more than happy to invite you to the Utrecht Data Summer School 2021. From Monday 19th of July until Friday 23st of July, we…
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