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Mapping Issue and Online Publics in Realtime
Mapping Issue and Online Publics in Realtime, hackathon 24 & 25 March 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…
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First Credit Research is hiring
First Credit Research is looking for a freelancer that can support us with maintaining and creating Tableau dashboards. First Credit Research analyzes the 100 largest economies in the world, including their financial markets and a wide range of influential factors such as social, demographic and political circumstances. You will be assisting our Tableau specialists in…
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Two Python workshops
Both workshops are currently full. You can mail to dataschool@uu.nl to get on a list for when someone drops out. Everybody’s talking about it, but few are actually doing it: Python. It is amongst the most handy programming languages out there. Data School has been able to find an absolute expert, Jan de Mooij, to…
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Publication: “Between two Hypes” Big Data and Landgrab
In an interdisciplinary effort, Alex Gekker and Mirko Tobias Schäfer from the Data School and professor Annelies Zoomers from International Development Studies have investigated how digital methods inform research in the geo sciences. looking at the phenomenon of the landgrab debate, the researchers show how the data from social media platforms and websites can enrich…
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Irene Westra wins Peter G. Swanborn award
Irene Westra, executive secretary at Data School, has been awarded the prestigious Peter G. Swanborn award for her BA thesis in sociology. Together with her co-author Elmira van den Broek, Irene investigated the impact of institutions on the organizational performance of open source communities. In their meticulously researched paper ‘The influence of institutions on organizational…