With no less than a four-person team of interviewers and videographers, I recently paid a visit to a highly requested interviewee: Dirk Fahland. An originally Berliner, who moved to Singapore, to eventually end up in Eindhoven where he’s has been an assistant professor in the Analytics for Information System group…

From multiple offices spread around the globe, Studyportals is trying to make education transparent globally by listing thousands of international study opportunities in one place. With over 30 million unique visitors from 240 different countries per year this “Google for studies” is not only one of the fastest growing scale-ups…

Teaching others is one of the most rewarding things you can do and you learn a lot from it. In the last few months I have had the privilege of teaching to a variety of backgrounds about the art of data. Here you find my five biggest lessons learned. 1. Put yourself in their shoes …

Last month I got the opportunity to pick the brain of some of the T500 nominees during The Next Web Conference 2018. In this article, I’ll share their views on a frequently recurring presentation topic at the event: Artificial Intelligence (AI). …

For the second year in a row HEX took place in the breeding ground for innovation as well as the smartest city of the world: Eindhoven. 300 people with over 60 different nationalities gathered together for this 32-hour long hackathon hosted at the 8th and 9th floor in the ‘Veemgebouw’…

As a JADS-student you have likely heard through the grapevine of the Data Science Study Association Pattern which had already spread across two cities and now it has also formally been established in the capital of the province. The new ‘Master Committee’, including its five-member body, will be officially presented…

A warm welcome to the Mariënburg, the second (and now: first!) home of many students, academics and start-ups. The place where both data science and entrepreneurship is pursued, where classics revived and where the JADS-flag always flies (no not literally, we are not at Zweinstein..) Like your freshmen welcome week…

This time the story behind the person who normally shares others’ stories. He was the marketing rockstar behind Science Rockstars, previously worked as a “Travel Scientist” for Booking.com, has built his social media presence under the name “happy bandits”, loves hanging out with extraordinary people, regularly stands in the spotlights…

It’s virtually impossible to introduce our next guest, Maurits Kaptein, in just a few words, so why should I? A psychology graduate, self-taught statistician, distinguished visiting scholar at Stanford University, former Chief Scientist and co-founder of Science Rockstars, public speaker, author of “Persuasion Profiling” and you would almost forget it…