We critically re-examine the Saerens-Latinne-Decaestecker (SLD) algorithm, a well-known method for estimating class prior probabilities (“priors”) and adjusting posterior...

This webinar was organised by the Network Medicine Exploratory (WP10) and hosted Enrico Maiorino. Enrico Maiorino is a very esteemed researcher at Brigham Women's Hospital,...

This course developed by Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya and Barcelona Supercomputing Center provides an applied approach to Deep Learning. It chooses to present an...

This webinar, which took place on 6 July 2021, focused on the interplay between legal data and data science. The webinar, entitled ‘Legal Materials as Big Data: (algo)Rithms to...

This webinar, which took place on 10 November 2020, was aimed at exploring the theme of data protection and intellectual property issues in platforms. The first speaker was...

The Data Inquiries Initiative (http://datainquiries.publicdatalab.org/) proposes a new way to do research with data and to teach data literacy. It suggests, in particular, to...

These slides are for a lecture “Network analysis”, of 851-0585-38L Data Science in Techno-Socio-Economic Systems course presented in the spring semester 2021 at ETH Zurich....

Efficiency/Effectiveness Trade-offs in Learning to Rank” tutorial by Claudio Lucchese and Franco Maria Nardini at the European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles...

The module aims to teach how to present the knowledge extracted from big data using multimedia story telling. It also shows some of the most recent and meaningful experiences...

Anonymization for privacy-preserving data publishing, also known as statistical disclosure control (SDC), can be viewed under the lens of the permutation model. According to...

Our remarks focus on two main issues: 1) providing operational tools to link the ethics and the legal dimension of a Trustworthy AI avoiding risks of ethics washing; 2) the...

Starting from an analysis of the EU Reg. n. 2016/679 on General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the Author deals with the opportunity to translate the current strategies on...

This article describes an emergent logic of accumulation in the networked sphere, ‘surveillance capitalism,’ and considers its implications for ‘information civilization.’ The...

Artificial Intelligence is developing fast. It will change our lives by improving healthcare (e.g. making diagnosis more precise, enabling better prevention of diseases),...

The limits of data protection and anti-discrimination in responding to emergent discrimination The potential for biases being built into algorithms has been known for some time...

In this seminar cycle, students are guided in the direct usage of a powerful C++ library implementing many state-of-the-art compressed data structures for big data. Other than...

The proposal for a Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on data governance is the first of a set of measures announced in the 2020 European strategy for...

A growing body of research emphasises the role of ‘social determinants of health’ in generating inequalities in health outcomes. How, if at all, should primary care providers...

The rise of “Big Data” analytics in the private sector poses new challenges for privacy advocates. Through its reliance on existing data and predictive analysis to create...

In Homo Deus, Yuval Noah Harari argues that technological advances of the twenty-first century will usher in a significant shift in how humans make important life decisions....