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 organised in the context of the COMMIT ControCurator project. In this project VU and UvA computer scientists and humanities researchers investigate jointly the computational modeling of controversial issues on the Web, and explore its application within real use cases in existing organisational pipelines, e.g. Crowdynews and Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision.
The Agenda is as follows:
09:00-09:10 Coffee
Introduction & Chair by Lora Aroyo, Full Professor at the Web & Media group (VU, Computer Science)
09:10 – 09:25: Gerben van Eerten – Crowdynews deploying ControCurator
09:25 – 09:40: Kaspar Beelen – Detecting Controversies in Online News Media (UvA, Faculty of Humanities)
09:40 – 09:50: Benjamin Timmermans – Understanding Controversy Using Collective Intelligence (VU, Computer Science)
09:50 – 10:00: Davide Ceolin – (VU, Computer Science)
10:00 – 10:15: Damian Trilling – (UvA, Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences)
10:15 – 10:30: Daan Oodijk (Blendle)
10:30 – 10:45: Andy Tanenbaum – “Unskewed polls” in 2012
10:45 – 11:00: Q&A Coffee
The event takes place at the Kerkzaal (HG-16A00) on the top floor of the VU Amsterdam main building.