31 January 2025 @ 09:30 – 17:00 – On 31 January at the Railway Museum, the joint SIGs Applied Data Science, Governing the Digital Society and Human-centered Artificial Intelligence will host their third joint national conference. This year the topic …

15 October 2024 @ 16:00 – 18:00 – On October 15, 2024, from 16:00 – 18:00 hours in the yellow lecture hall in the Hijmans van den Bergh building of the UMC Utrecht, the Data Science and Cohorts …

The focus area Applied Data Science (ADS) at Utrecht University (UU) again provides funding to finance research projects within the Special Interest Groups (SIGs) of Applied Data Science. The aim is to foster the application of data science techniques in research areas where they are not yet applied and to accelerate the development of data science techniques…

17 September 2024 @ 15:00 – 17:00 – On Tuesday 17 September from 15:00 to 17:00 hrs, Utrecht University’s Bottom-up Initiatives for Societal Change organizes their Methods Workshop on ‘Data Donation’ hosted by Laura Boeschoten and Niek de …

15 July 2024 – 19 July 2024 @ All Day – From Monday 15 July to Friday 19 July, Utrecht University’s Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences offers an Utrecht Summer School course on applied text mining. In this course, students …

Authors Julia Straatman and Lysa Ngouateu have published a (Dutch) blog post on the Data School website about Data School‘s visit to the yearly Computers, Privacy and Data Protection (CPDP) conference. This year, the conference took place in Brussels (Belgium) from 22-24 May. Data School moderated two panels and hosted an interactive workshop. Data School at CPDP 2024…

The research report that was originally published as ‘Spelen met vuur’ in October 2023 has now been translated from Dutch to English. Researchers from Utrecht University’s Faculty of Humanities and Data School investigated the dynamics between political debate in the Dutch House of Representatives (Tweede Kamer) and reactions, comments and framing on social media. Analyses…

07 October 2021 @ 10:00 – 16:00 – In this one-day course, intended for researchers and teachers in the humanities, you will learn the basics of statistical data analysis.

16 November 2020 @ 15:00 – 16:00 – Machine learning (ML) has witnessed tremendous successes in the last decade in classification, regression, and prediction areas. However, many ML models are used, and sometimes even designed, as black boxes. …