Amsterdam Data Science – Coffee & Data: Controversy in Web Data
On 9th of June we are organising a Coffee & Data event with the Amsterdam Data Science community. The topic is “How to deal with controversy, bias, quality and opinions on the Web” and will be...
View ArticleControversy in Web Data presentation
Today I presented our work on ControCurator at the Amsterdam Data Science Coffee & Data event on Controversy in Web Data. Controversy in web data #AmsterdamDataScience #Meetup @VUamsterdam...
View ArticleCollective Intelligence 2017 – Trip Report
On June 15-16 the Collective Intelligence conference took place at New York University. The CrowdTruth team was present with Lora Aroyo, Chris Welty and Benjamin Timmermans. Together with Anca...
View ArticleDataset of Crowdsourced Annotations on Controversy Aspects
I published an update to our dataset of crowdsourced annotations on controversy aspects, as part of the ControCurator project. Experimental Setup We evaluated the controversy aspects through a...
View ArticleVisualize your Google location history in one map
I like geographic data, and in recent years developed a simple tool to easily visualize all of my Google location history data in a single zoomable and interactive map. It converts your complete Google...
View ArticleControCurator paper accepted at SocInfo 2017
Our paper Computational Controversy has been accepted at the SocInfo 2017 conference! Abstract Climate change, vaccination, abortion, Trump: Many topics are surrounded by fierce controversies. The...
View ArticleMachine Learning Overview
There have been a lot of developments in the last years in machine learning. One of the main developments of course has been deep learning, but now also generative adversarial networks are becoming...
View ArticleHuman Computing for the Real World
We present our latest work on the CrowdTruth framework, titled “Human Computing for the Real World”, at the ICT Open 2017 conference on 21st and 22nd of March 2017. I made a new video that demonstrates...
View ArticleWeekly AI talk on ControCurator
Last week I gave another talk in our Weekly AI meeting on the topic of ControCurator. This is a project that I am currently working on, which has the goal to enable the discovery and understanding of...
View ArticleComputer Science at the VU for immigrants and international students
As I am study advisor for the international students, I am also responsible for immigrants that study Computer Science bachelor at the Vrije Universiteit. In order to provide these future students with...
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