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KIEM Project GOOD DATA. Investigating government open data projects
The Data School has recently received a KIEM grant from the NWO’s exact science program. The project proposed by Mirko Tobias Schäfer (UU, media and culture studies), Karin van Es (UvA, media studies) and Remko Helms (UU, computer science) develops a database for comparative analysis of open data projects. Governments are actively pushing the use…
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Workshop Natural Language Processing
The workshop is full! It is possible to e-mail dataschool@uu.nl to get on the list for when a participant is not able to come anymore. Wednesday the 17th of June Data School organizes a workshop Natural Language Processing. We are very pleased that the workshop will be hosted by Swen Mulderij, an expert in data-analysis…
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NSS Hackathon
Dear potential applicant, Students, data-analysts, journalists, and other interested individuals come together on March 24th and 25th for a two-day hackathon about the Nuclear Security Summit (NSS). During the hackathon we try to visualize and understand all the commotion around NSS with social media monitoring tools, data-analysis and datavisualization. The Data School invites you to…
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Power Diffusion in the Public Sphere Workshop
15 May 2014 // Drift 21 0.05 // Sweelinckzaal // Sponsored by ICON. While the emancipatory affect of social media is often over emphasized in a techno-populist fashion, the power diffusion to new communicators, new multipliers and a multipolar media economy is often neglected. In this workshop, we focus on the role of technology, power…
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Mapping Issue and Online Publics in Realtime
The Nuclear Security Summit will be the Netherlands most watched event in 2014. 58 political leaders convene in The Hague to discuss nuclear safety in an unstable world. We expect this high impact event to trend on social media as well as stimulating dissent and political opinion. In a hackathon, students of NMDC and the…