Bas van der Klaauw (VU Amsterdam) The CBS microdata environment offers a wide range of possibilities to study interesting policy related questions and has proven its value for society in the past years. Nowadays many researchers use these data and also PhD students use CBS microdata for their research. Researchers are often working in groups…
The programme of the ODISSEI Community Conference is now available online, including sessions on innovating Computational Social Science research projects, Open Science with Secure Data, and Linkage of Large Datasets in the Social Sciences and Humanities.
Rick Mourits (Radboud University) The life course approach to study sociological and demographic phenomena has often been limited to contemporary and/or western populations. Our ambition is to extend this approach to non -western and historical populations, but this puts high demands on data gathering. The presentation will discuss the particular challenges for the creation of…
Melanie Imming (Independent Consultant) Melanie Imming is an independent consultant with years of experience helping leading cultural and academic organisations develop their strategy around topics including Digital Preservation, Digital Cultural Heritage, Open Science and FAIR data. She is involved in different expert groups and networks. These include the scientific committee of OPERAS (the Research Infrastructure…
Frank P. Pijpers (Statistics Netherlands (CBS) and University of Amsterdam) The Dutch national statistical agency (CBS) is now spending some considerable effort on mapping out the network of connections between people, and connections between enterprises. In my talk I will discuss why such relationships are so important for national statistics and give some highlights of…
Frank Takes (Leiden University, POPNET) Country-wide administrative register data, as studied within the POPNET project, enables the discovery of population-scale insights into contemporary social scientific problems such as segregation, inequality and poverty. This talk considers responsibly anonymized population-scale social network data on all 17 million inhabitants of the Netherlands. The formal links in this social…
Erik-Jan van Kesteren (Utrecht University, ODISSEI SoDa Team) When working with the CBS microdata, it is often hard to communicate and collaborate because of the restrictions in place. In this session, Van Kesteren will present how the SoDa team has worked around these restrictions to generate an open data processing pipeline for a complex project…
Registration for the ODISSEI Community Conference 2021 is now open. The conference will take place in the Muntgebouw in Utrecht on Thursday, 18 November from 12:00 to 18:00 hours.
On Tuesday 26 October, dr. Paulina Pankowska (VU Amsterdam) presents her research on the use of hidden Markov models to produce consistent statistics with inconsistent sources.
On Thursday 9 December from 12:00 to 13:00, dr. Eelke Heemskerk will give a lecture on POPNET: Population Scale Social Network Analysis.
