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7 articles · Latest June 27, 2025

Flavio Hafner·Jun 27, 2025

Empirically evaluating privacy in machine learning I: Introduction

Research in the social and health sciences often relies on accessing data sourced from statistical agencies or healthcare organizations. Such data sets contain sensitive informatio...

Flavio Hafner·Jun 17, 2025

Empirically evaluating privacy in machine learning II: Hypothesis testing

Using statistics to think like a hacker, so we can avoid them! Image from page 182 of “Elements of statistics” (1954). Licensed under creative commons.This post is the second in a...

Flavio Hafner·Jun 17, 2025

Empirically evaluating privacy in machine learning III: functional & gaussian differential privacy

1 Using statistics to think like a hacker, so we can avoid them! The Greek letter lambda, symbol of functional programming.This post is the third in a series on differential privac...

Peter Kalverla·Oct 5, 2023

Analysis-ready climate data with ESMValCore

The “Easy IPCC” blog done differently Co-authored by Bouwe Andela In a recent blog post, Tom Nicholas presented a nice walkthrough of reproducing a famous IPCC figure with xarray-d...

Barbara Vreede·Aug 30, 2023

Why your research deserves to be an R package

1 If after reading this post you are motivated to make your own R package, consider joining our upcoming workshop! Free tickets are now available. If you are an R user, think about...

Hanno Spreeuw·Nov 23, 2020

eScience trends from ADASS 2020

eScience trends from ADASS 2020 Scaling up compute and storage resources are not going to be the biggest hurdles. 8 My general feeling about this conference What a delight ADASS (A...

Florian Huber·Jun 24, 2019

derse 2019 first conference for research software engineers in germany

written by Carlos Martinez-Ortiz and Florian Huber Facts What: First Conference for Research Software Engineers (RSE) in Germany When: 4-6 June 2019 Where: Albert Einstein Science...