During my semester project, I was faced with the task of processing a large data set (6 TB) consisting of all the revisions in the English Wikipedia till October 2016. We chose Apache Spark as our cluster-computing framework, and hence I ended up spending a lot of time working with...
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Of sheep and beer
A story of herding effects in beer reviews
[A research paper about this research has been published at The Web Conference 2018: When Sheep Shop: Measuring Herding Effects in Product Ratings with Natural Experiments]
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Postdoc position available
[Note: this position has been filled]
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There are only 10 kinds of people...
... those who understand binary and those who don't.
At the dlab, we’re of the former kind. If you look closely at our logo, you’ll realize that the letters “dlab” consist entirely of circles and vertical lines—i.e., zeros and ones.
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Wikipedia's fixed point
The other day my friend Peter pointed me towards this xkcd comic: http://xkcd.com/903/
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