Blog
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Data protection – are we really paradoxical?
By Nico Ebert (ZHAW) translated from the original German language version published at Inside IT A common narrative in practice sounds something like this: “people claim data protection is ...
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The Psychology of Cookie Banners from a Data Privacy Perspective
By Nico Ebert (ZHAW) cross-posted from the author’s blog Many Internet users inside and outside the European Union are very familiar with cookie banners: they pop up on websites, they are often ...
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(Neural) Networking at ANNPR 2020: International perspectives on artificial neural networks in pattern recognition at ZHAW
By Bettina Mack (ZHAW) ANNPR, the “International Workshop on Artificial Neural Networks in Pattern Recognition” is a biennial academic conference where researchers come together to discuss the most ...
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Social Media Monitoring for Arts Management on the example of the Lake of Constance (Bodensee) region
By Fernando Benites, Lara Leuschen, Diana Betzler and Mark Cieliebak cross-posted from the SpinningBytes blog Introduction We concluded an compelling interdisciplinary project on the ...
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Too much and too irrelevant: What do users really want to know about privacy?
By Nico Ebert (ZHAW) cross-posted from WINsights blog Each of us is confronted with countless privacy notices every day and agrees to the practices described. Most likely we do not even notice ...
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Algorithmic Fairness – Algorithms and Social Justice
By Christoph Heitz (ZHAW) translated from original German language version published at Inside IT Can a prisoner be released early, or released on bail? A judge who decides this should also ...
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Twistbytes Approach to Hierarchical Classification shared Task at GermEval 2019
by Fernando Benites (ZHAW and SpinningBytes) cross-posted from github We explain here, step by step, how to reproduce results of the approach and discuss parts of the paper. The approach was ...
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Twist Bytes @Vardial 2018
by Fernando Benites (ZHAW and SpinningBytes) cross-posted from the SpinningBytes blog schwiiz ja* This year, the SpinningBytes team participated in the VarDial competition, where we achieved ...
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The Rise of Natural Language Interfaces to Databases
Kurt Stockinger was invited to contribute a blog to ACM SIGMOD – the leading world-wide community of database research. The blog discusses recent technological advances of natural language ...
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What is the value of data privacy?
By Nico Ebert (ZHAW) The original version of this post was published in German on Privacy Bits and English on vetri.global In a lecture for the Fair Data Forum, I dealt with the question “What ...
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ZHAW Datalab organizes Data Science Event in Silicon Valley
By Kurt Stockinger (ZHAW) As part of “Zürich meets San Francisco – A Festival Of Two Cities”, the ZHAW Datalab co-organized the event Data Science and Beyond: Technical, Economic and Societal ...
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PhD Network in Data Science: Website launched
The aim of the PhD Network in Data Science is to offer students with a master degree (including degrees from an university of applied sciences) the opportunity to obtain a PhD in cooperation between a ...
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Book Review: Paul D. Ellis, The Essential Guide to Effect Sizes
Reviewed by Thoralf Mildenberger (ZHAW) Paul. D. Ellis, The Essential Guide to Effect Sizes. Statistical Power, Meta-Analysis and the Interpretation of Research Results. Cambridge University Press, ...
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Study on “Quantified Self” Published: Links to Book and Summary
By Kurt Stockinger (ZHAW) The final results of an interdisciplinary study funded by „TA Swiss“ on „Quantified Self“ with participation of the Datalab have been published. The study was performed by ...
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PhD Network in Data Science
By Dirk Wilhelm (ZHAW) Reposted from https://blog.zhaw.ch/industrie4null/2018/01/10/phd-network-in-data-science/ Studierende können nun an der ZHAW in Kooperation mit der Universität Zürich oder der ...
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Artificial Intelligence in Industry and Finance
2nd European COST Conference on Mathematics for Industry in Switzerland September 7, 2017 Zurich University of Applied Sciences, Technikumstr. 71, 8400 Winterthur By Jörg Osterrieder (ZHAW) Below ...
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R: Reduce() Part 2 – some pitfalls using Reduce
By Matthias Templ (ZHAW), Thoralf Mildenberger (ZHAW) By way of example, functionality of Reduce() is shown in in https://blog.zhaw.ch/datascience/r-reduce-applys-lesser-known-brother/ . It’s great to ...
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R: Reduce() – apply’s lesser known brother
By Thoralf Mildenberger (ZHAW) Everybody who knows a bit about R knows that in general loops are said to be evil and should be avoided, both for efficiency reasons and code readability, although one ...
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Conference review of SDS|2017, Kursaal Bern, June 16
by Thilo Stadelmann (ZHAW) In 2014, ZHAW Datalab started the SDS conference series. It was the year with only one Swiss data scientist identifiable on LinkedIn (at Postfinance…). The year where we ...
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Who is scared of the big bad robot?
By Lukas Tuggener (ZHAW) Twitter: https://twitter.com/ltuggener/ Reposted from https://medium.com/@ltuggener/who-is-scared-of-the-big-bad-robot-dc203e2cd7c4 There currently is much talk about the ...