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13 articles · Latest November 26, 2024

eScience Editorial Team·Nov 26, 2024

From Pandemic Response to Package Development

By Fenne Riemslagh We had the pleasure of sitting down with Kirsten Bulsink, a data scientist at the Dutch National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM). Our disc...

Flavio Hafner·Feb 27, 2024

How to manage your IP address in Python

> This post is the first of a series of blog posts arising from a collaboration between the eScience Center and the ODISSEI Social Data Science Team. You can find this text also at...

eScience Editorial Team·Sep 21, 2023

Do you have 50.000 annotators?

Do you have 50.000 annotators? Written by eScience Center Fellow, Daniela Gawehns Photo by Shutterstock During ICT.open 2023, I organized a workshop for 40 computer scientists on r...

Rob van Nieuwpoort·Mar 21, 2023

Defining the roles of research software

Examples: In the biochemistry realm, software is used for modeling molecules for use in a next-gen diagnostics or therapeutics: we want to design some molecule in software with som...

eScience Editorial Team·Jan 12, 2023

The Data Science Centre: Digital expertise Hub at UvA

This week, we interviewed Lisa Yu, Community Manager of the Data Science Center (DSC). The DSC is a coordinating hub within the University of Amsterdam (UvA) Library, launched in 2...

Maarten van Meersbergen·Jun 17, 2021

Visual Storytelling for data science

Maarten van Meersbergen·Jun 7, 2021 When conducting research, the data collected can in itself be exciting and meaningful, but when it is presented as spreadsheets or bullet points...

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Netherlands eScience Center·Nov 28, 2019

Accelerating the search for dark matter

Astronomical observations show that roughly 80% of the mass of the universe is made up of dark matter, a material that cannot be directly observed because emits no light or energy....

Sonja Georgievska·Jun 20, 2019

turning a panda into a cat!

Why adversarial examples are not scary…but are most likely useful “Is it a bird? Is it a plane?” A child who never saw Superman might mistake him for a bird or a plane. On the othe...

eScience Editorial Team·Apr 4, 2019

understanding global corporate networks

Members of the CORPNET group at the University of Amsterdam Frank Takes is an assistant professor at Leiden University and member of the CORPNET group at the University of Amsterd...

Patrick Bos·Sep 3, 2018

50 times faster data loading for pandas no problem

Loading irregular data into Pandas using C++ Irregular pandas If Python is the reigning king of data science, Pandas is the kingdom’s bureaucracy. As recognized by Pandas creator W...

eScience Editorial Team·Jul 11, 2018

the end of theory for earth sciences

“The end of theory.” This is the title of an article in Wired Magazine 10 years ago. No theory needed, the data deluge allows us to extract any knowledge by exploring data. This ne...

eScience Editorial Team·Oct 18, 2017

teaching machines to recognize cancer

Jeroen de Ridder, Associate Professor at the University Medical Center Utrecht Photography: Elodie Burrillon | http://hucopix.com Jeroen de Ridder is Associate Professor at the Un...

eScience Editorial Team·Apr 3, 2017

how can network analysis lead to a new way of studying court decisions

Gijs van Dijck, Professor of Private Law, Maastricht University Photography and text: Elodie Burrillon / HUCOPIX Gijs van Dijck is a young professor of Private Law at Maastricht U...