Robots and the workforce: understanding the research
As artificial intelligence (AI) technology develops at breakneck speed, some worry that robots may take away jobs. A new research primer from the… Read more »
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Women’s disadvantage: because of who they are, or what they do?
Women often find themselves strongly disadvantaged in the field of software development, in particular when it comes to open source. In a study… Read more »
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Measuring without labels: a different approach to information extraction
Information extraction is a major problem in the fields of natural language processing and web mining, in particular when it comes… Read more »
What ‘Twitch Plays Pokémon’ tells us about crowd behavior
No one would deny that the behavior of the people we know, and even of our own, can radically change depending on those who… Read more »
What can we learn from billions of food purchases derived from fidelity cards?
By combining 1.6B food item purchases with 1.1B medical prescriptions for the entire city of London for one year, researchers… Read more »
How news outlets target audiences
The mass media is one of the social forces with the most active transformative power. However, news reach people unequally. In… Read more »
Offline biases in online platforms
Online booking platforms such as Airbnb or Uber present themselves as and strive to be inclusive, but there is an increasing… Read more »
Using deep learning to “see” inside homes across the world
How much does someone's living room tell about how they live? Peeking into another person's life might be just part of natural… Read more »
Accommodating urban freight in city planning
Urbanization has many benefits in terms of resource efficiency, economic development and an increased access to services and… Read more »
Twitter’s tampered samples: Limitations of big data sampling in social media
Social networks are widely used as sources of data in computational social science studies, and so it is of particular importance… Read more »