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Signs of our times: of black holes and red flags
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How TomTom uses AI to create stellar transportation maps
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The Culture Section
Anything shaped by human intelligence will be touched by artificial intelligence.

The future of AI may depend on historians and musicologists
By PAUL VON BÜNAU The concept of Artificial Intelligence had a massive impact over the past…

Die Sehnsucht nach Transparenz ist eine Sehnsucht nach Begründung. Warum Algorithmen lernen sollten, eine Geschichte zu erzählen.
By PAUL VON BÜNAU Basis aller heutigen Künstlichen Intelligenz sind bekanntlich Algorithmen. Diese sind in…

What do we mean by “data”?
By SANDRA RENDGEN Some technical terms are so ubiquitous and (apparently) unambigious, that they almost…
Life Science and Healthcare
When biology becomes like physics, solutions will emerge from complexity.

Data Science for Pharma – A Short Case Study
By BENJAMIN HÄUSLER Open data in biomedicine is a gold mine that can strengthen innovation…

Structuring, connecting and discovering knowledge: Our biotech NLP platform helps to identify therapeutic targets from millions of scientific papers
By PAUL VON BÜNAU In biomedicine, much of the information generated is made publicly available…

Choice Modelling in the Medical Context
By BENJAMIN HÄUSLER A new medicine is granted market approval if clinical trials can show…
Lessons we've learned
Make your own mistakes, not ours.

How to unlock valuable personal data for analysis: shedding light on the byzantine world of privacy-enhancing technology
By LISA MARTIN At the heart of privacy preserving data analysis lies a fundamental paradox:…

Cutting through the laptop installation jungle: How our MacBook setup repository helps our Data Scientists to organise their tools in only half a day
By HONG ZHU For me, one of the most frustrating parts of learning to program…

A Modern Visualization of Group Comparisons
By JEANETTE KNIPP More and more companies, governmental institutions and researchers employ data-centric methods to…
Behind the scenes
The experiences and anecdotes that make us who we are.

From code to client: insights from a data scientist’s intriguing journey
By HANNAH MARTIN Lea Helmers joined idalab as a data scientist in early 2016. With…

“Data is a small part of the story”: a glimpse into the life of a data scientist
By HANNAH MARTIN Hagen Hoferichter is a data scientist, but not just any data scientist.…

Fostering AI architects: a data strategy intern tells her story
By HANNAH MARTIN As a Data Strategy Intern at idalab, TINA EMAMBAKHSH explores how AI-/ML-based…
Success Stories
How AI worked and why.
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