ADS Coffee & Data: Controversy in Web Data
by Amsterdam Data Science
Date: Friday 09 June
Time: 0900-1100
Location: VU Amsterdam, HG-16A00 Kerkzaal, 16th floor main building VU
De Boelelaan, Amsterdam, Nederland
Overview: This edition of the ADS meetup will focus on the topic of “How to deal with controversy, bias, quality and opinions on the Web” and will be organised in the context of the COMMIT/ ControCurator project, in which VU and UvA computer scientists and humanities researchers investigate jointly the computational modeling of controversial issues on the Web, and explore its application within real use cases in existing organisational pipelines, e.g. Crowdynews and Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision.
09:00-09:10 Coffee
Introduction & Chair by Lora Aroyo, Full Professor at the Web & Media group, VU Computer Science
09:10-9:20: Kaspar Beelen – Detecting Controversies in Online News Media (UvA, Faculty of Humanities)
09:20-09:30: Benjamin Timmermans – Understanding Controversy Using Collective Intelligence (VU, Computer Science)
09:30-09:45: Gerben van Eerten – Crowdynews deploying ControCurator
09:45-10:00: Davide Ceolin – (VU, Computer Science)
10:00-10:15: Damian Trilling – (UvA, Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences)
10:15-10:30: Daan Oodijk (Blendle)
10:30-10:45: Andy Tanenbaum – “Skewing the data”
10:45-11:00: Q&A Coffee
Registration & further information: https://www.meetup.com/Amsterdam-Data-Science/events/239903981/