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10 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...

eScience Editorial Team·Aug 2, 2022

Our favourite Python tools for research

Photo by Ethan Robertson on Unsplash Ah, summer. A time to relax, go on holiday, and learn new things. At the eScience Center, we love summer. And we love Python. So, for summer,...

Fakhereh (Sarah) Alidoost·May 11, 2021

Lesson development blitz

5. Testing lessons designed by freepik https://stories.freepik.com/The coordinator asks some of the researchers in the community to use the tutorial and to report any issues or bug...

Felipe·Feb 22, 2021

A Quick and Dirty Pytest Cookbook

As an alternative to the above snippet, you can install and run the pytest-mypy-plugins. Testing the documentation Testing the documentation is a must have. The following snippet s...

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Pablo Rodríguez-Sánchez·Dec 16, 2019

Are you a researcher? You may not know it yet, but good software skills are just what you need

The previous example may look like (and actually is) quite silly. But remember that code is alive. Something that today is a simple function tomorrow may be more complicated. Imagi...

Pablo Rodríguez-Sánchez·Dec 16, 2019

Experiences of a computational evangelist

What I’ve learned spreading the gospel of computational best practices among scientists Photo by NESA by Makers on Unsplash Just a few days ago, I gave a talk at the FAIR (Findable...

eScience Editorial Team·Nov 28, 2019

Optimizing plasma sources through numerical simulation

Optimizing plasma sources through numerical simulation Cold plasma sources are promising devices for the transformation of carbon dioxide into methane and other value-added chemic...

Florian Huber·Jul 15, 2019

King - Man + Woman = King ?

Some of the best known examples used to explain the power of prominent Natural Language Processing tools (like Word2Vec) only seem to work with some cheating. One of the most impor...

Janneke van der Zwaan·Aug 1, 2018

jump start your python project with this template

Spend less time creating high quality software Use our python template to build better software. At the Netherlands eScience Center, we believe that better software leads to better...