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What insights can data visualization techniques generate?
Visualizing information is a way to communicate scientific results efficiently and in an appealing way. This is particularly important if scientists want to communicate their results not only to their
Jennifer Saul: Dogwhistles and Figleaves: Techniques of Racist Linguistic Manipulation
Professor Jennifer Saul, Director of Research, Department of Philosophy, University of Sheffield.ABSTRACTUntil recently, it was widely believed that explicit expressions of racism would doom a politic
Completed: Improved health
With the help of big data and AI, children and young people in the risk zone for ill health can be identified for individually tailored efforts. The project is done in Angered.

Causes and consequences of environmental protests. The global environmental contestation and civic mobilization observatory
Environmental protest events are increasing. Does it have any consequences for policy? With global data-sets, this project will try to answer that question.
Webinar: The Urgency of Prototyping Better Futures
If we wish to achieve a more inclusive, sustainable, diverse and equitable world, we urgently need a diversity of perspectives to imagine – and to build – better futures. The problems we face today arBased on experiments made at the Museum of Tomorrow in Rio de Janeiro, this presentation will show how positive futures can be prototyped to inspire change. Using key techniques, processes, methodologies, mindsets and tools, you too can become an active participant in shaping preferred futures!Welcome to a seminar with Marcela Sabino, a foresight strategist, creative director and innovation designer.This seminar is organized by Positive Future and is free upon registration. .
25 MSEK to research about school segregation
The past decades school segregation has become increasingly common in Sweden. Today Vetenskapsrådet (the Swedish Research Council), published information on which projects will get funding for five ye
Using Register Data to Estimate Causal Effects of Interventions: An Ex Post Synthetic Control-Group Approach
Scandinavian Journal of Public Health, 45, pp.50-55. Abstract Aims:It is common in the context of evaluations that participants have not been selected on the basis of transparent participation criteria,
Sex Selection for Daughters: Demographic Consequences of Female-Biased Sex Ratios
Population Research and Policy Review 41, p. 1619–1639 Abstract Modern fertility techniques allow parents to carry out preimplantation sex selection. Sex selection for non-medical purposes is legal in m

Selling pictures. Pictorial Economy and Commoditization 1820–2020
This project will place the current discussions concerning AI-generated images in a historical context, comparing it to two previous technological breakthroughs that have affected the use of pictures for commercial purposes.
Mining everyday life: Interactive visual analysis of event-based data
Katerina Vrotsou, Linköping University Event-based data are collections of sequences of ordered events and are encountered daily in a vast number of disciplines. Examples of such data include medical r