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By Nico Ebert (ZHAW) translated from the original German language version published at Inside IT A common narrative in practice sounds something like this: “people claim data protection is important to them, but in reality they give away everything on the internet anyway”. There are also some science studies that seem to prove this again and again: that […]
By Nico Ebert (ZHAW) cross-posted from the author’s blog Many Internet users inside and outside the European Union are very familiar with cookie banners: they pop up on websites, they are often annoying, and it is tedious to really deal with them. Having to state our data sharing and protection preferences over and over again […]
By Bettina Mack (ZHAW) ANNPR, the “International Workshop on Artificial Neural Networks in Pattern Recognition” is a biennial academic conference where researchers come together to discuss the most recent advances in the fields of neural networks, deep learning and artificial intelligence as applied to pattern recognition. Pattern recognition is the field of computer science which […]
By Fernando Benites, Lara Leuschen, Diana Betzler and Mark Cieliebak cross-posted from the SpinningBytes blog Introduction We concluded an compelling interdisciplinary project on the topic of digitalization, where we applied a selection of fundamental methods of data science: web scraping, data wrangling with elastic search/kibana juggling, data cleaning, counting, posing questions and searching for answers […]
By Nico Ebert (ZHAW) cross-posted from WINsights blog Each of us is confronted with countless privacy notices every day and agrees to the practices described. Most likely we do not even notice this because the privacy information is hidden in long and cumbersome privacy policies. In order to inform users more specifically with more relevant […]
By Christoph Heitz (ZHAW) translated from original German language version published at Inside IT Can a prisoner be released early, or released on bail? A judge who decides this should also consider the risk of recidivism of the person to be released. Wouldn’t it be an advantage to be able to assess this risk objectively […]
by Fernando Benites (ZHAW and SpinningBytes) cross-posted from github We explain here, step by step, how to reproduce results of the approach and discuss parts of the paper. The approach was aimed at building a strong baseline for the task, which should be beaten by deep learning approaches, but we did not achieve that, so […]
by Fernando Benites (ZHAW and SpinningBytes) cross-posted from the SpinningBytes blog schwiiz ja* This year, the SpinningBytes team participated in the VarDial competition, where we achieved second place in the German Dialect Identification shared task. The task’s goal was to identify, which region the speaker of a given sentence is from, based on the dialect […]
By Kurt Stockinger (ZHAW) As part of “Zürich meets San Francisco – A Festival Of Two Cities”, the ZHAW Datalab co-organized the event Data Science and Beyond: Technical, Economic and Societal Challenges, which took place at the campus of San José State University (SJSU) – in the heart of Silicon Valley. One interesting fact about […]
Reviewed by Thoralf Mildenberger (ZHAW) Paul. D. Ellis, The Essential Guide to Effect Sizes. Statistical Power, Meta-Analysis and the Interpretation of Research Results. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2010. Link to book on publisher’s website. In the last few years, statistical hypothesis testing – with the p-value still being THE standard for reporting results in many […]