Data Science Insights

What role does Data Science play for researchers at the University of Mannheim? What are the research projects about? Interviews with researchers who provide insights into their work on the topic of data science are regularly published here.

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May 2023: Data Science Insights by João Areal

João Areal received a MSc Research Master Social Sciences from the University of Amsterdam in August 2020. Since May 2021 João is a Doctoral Researcher at the Professorship for Statistics and Methodology at the University of Mannheim, where he works with Dr Ruben Bach in the project “Filter Bubbles, ...

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April 2023: Data Science Insights by Victoria Meil

Victoria Meil acquired both her Bachelor's and Master's degrees in Business Administration with a focus on Marketing, Human Resources and Psychology at the University of Mannheim. She spent a semester abroad at Queen's University in Canada. During her studies, Victoria gained practical experience in ...

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March 2023: Data Science Insights by Renat Shigapov

Dr. Renat Shigapov is Data Science Consultant at the Research Data Center of the University of Mannheim, Data Scientist for BERD@NFDI and coordinator of the NFDI working group “Knowledge Graphs”. Renat was awarded his doctorate at the Department of Physics, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology. He is a ...

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February 2023: Data Science Insights by Marlene Lutz

Marlene Lutz has been a doctoral student and research assistant at the Chair of Data Science in Economics and Social Sciences since 2022. Previously, she studied computer science at RWTH Aachen University. Her research interests include Responsible Machine Learning, Fair Algorithmic Ranking and ...

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January 2023: Data Science Insights by Lea Cohausz

Lea Cohausz is a doctoral student specializing in artificial intelligence at the University of Mannheim. Previously, she studied Sociology in her Bachelor's degree and the Mannheim Master in Data Science here. Her research interests include data mining in education, human behavior, and goal ...

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December 2022: Data Science Insights by Christopher Klamm

Christopher Klamm has been a Ph.D. student at the Chair of DWS of Prof. Dr. Simone Ponzetto since December 2021. His research focuses on analyzing social and political phenomena, such as populism, in texts using automatic methods of natural language processing. Previously, he studied computer ...

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November 2022: Data Science Insights by Carola Trips

Prof. Dr. Carola Trips holds the chair of English Linguistics /Diachrony (Anglistik IV) at the University of Mannheim and works in the field of historical linguistics. In addition to synchronic and diachronic syntax and morphology (theories), her research interests include language contact, ...

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October 2022: Data Science Insights by Vera Vogel

Vera Vogel has been a doctoral candidate at the Chair for Cross-Cultural Social and Personality Psychology of Prof. Dr. Jochen Gebauer since 2020. Her research focuses on social perception, categorisation & stereotypes, self-concept and social class affiliation. Previously, she studied psychology at ...

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September 2022: Data Science Insights by Rainer Freudenthaler

Dr. Rainer Freudenthaleris an academic staff member at the MZES. After studying Media Economics at the Hochschule der Medien Stuttgart and getting his master’s degree in Media and Communication Studies at the University of Mannheim he finished his dissertation on the public debate concerning ...

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August 2022: Data Science Insights by Jovita Lukasik

Jovita Lukasik is a doctoral candidate in the focus group “Computer Vision” within the “Data and Web Science Group” at the Business Informatics and Mathematics at the University of Mannheim. Previously, she studied Business Mathematics at the University of Mannheim and Mathematical Finance at the ...

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