Co-organizer of @DSBrussels. Passionate about Data and modelling reality. I have yet to find a topic that is not fundamentally interesting.
Joined May 2013
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9 Jun 2021
When you get a commercial call and say you're not interested? The operator turns pushy and says you can't possibly not be interested in something you don't know about? I just realized (stupid me), like the rest of the call, somebody scripted it in cold blood. @proximus #predatory
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7 Mar 2021
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6 Nov 2020
I might have reached the pinnacle of my career 🤩
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25 Sep 2020
Nicely phrased nugget of wisdom by @BandeenKaren "we learn primarily by specifying how simple models fail to fit, not by observing that complex models happen to fit".
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28 Aug 2020
Test and trace apps can open up the world. But how do we maintain privacy with our location and health data constantly being collected?
Researchers from our Computational Privacy Group will be taking your questions next week as part of #ImperialLates
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26 Apr 2020
Privacy researchers, govts, and tech companies work on contact tracing apps, hoping to curb down the pandemic. We often hear that 56, 60, or 70% of the population would need to install these apps. These are likely incorrect reads of a paper published by Ferretti et al. Thread ⤵️
26 Apr 2020
Contact tracing app could halt spread of Covid-19 if downloaded by 60 per cent of the population telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/04…
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15 Apr 2020
Guess the animal... Stumbled on a stupid joke which highlight pretty well the risk of applying out-of-the-box anonymisation techniques indiscriminately. Going through the moves doesn't equate to doing the thing #anonymisation #privacy #minorities #giraffes
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29 Mar 2020
These aren't normal times but calling this data anonymous is just misleading: "The controls include removing identifiers such as name and address and replacing these with a pseudonym." This is the literal definition of pseudonymous data art. 4(5) GDPR. 1/2
28 Mar 2020
Find out how NHS England and Improvement and NHSX are working to stay ahead of COVID-19 by using real time information to forecast demand on health and care services #COVID19 healthtech.blog.gov.uk/2020/…
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21 Mar 2020
Can we fight #Covid_19 without resorting to mass surveillance? We think we can: cpg.doc.ic.ac.uk/blog/fighti…
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9 Mar 2020
"These statistics are derived for each Belgian municipality and provided in the form of graphs and tables in a pdf document." Really? How much harder would it be to just dump the data in a csv? #OpenData @meteobenl @meteobefr @OpenKnowledgeBE
opendata.meteo.be/geonetwork…
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8 Mar 2020
Read that in @FukuyamaFrancis's "Political order and political decay" today. It's always shocking when you discover uncannily modern concerns in old ideas... #partisanPolitics #history
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21 Feb 2020
6 years already. 6 years only. Time for some retrospective on what the @DataScienceBe has achieved and how the world of data science in #Belgium has evolved. Be welcome at the @digityser on the 19th of march for a unique event! meetup.com/Data-Science-Comm…
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21 Feb 2020
The stand-up of the Data Lab this morning was kind of funny, _everyone_ was fighting with a different aspect of getting her/his @awscloud #lambda function working (CloudWatch monitoring, Resource Based Policy, Python library versions). #Serverless for the win :-) #MachineLearning
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30 Jan 2020
💡 Tickets for the next #databeers #brussels go live in less than 5 minutes! Don’t miss out 👉 eventbrite.com/e/databeers-b…
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11 Jan 2020
I got the same one and it definitely made my day. I think it's the first time I read a marketing email... several times... and showed it to friends. Mission accomplished!
11 Jan 2020
Dear Amazon Web Services marketing team: you managed to send one of the most hilarious email messages of all times. 👏 🧐🤫😂
#AWS #Marketing
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26 Dec 2019
As a teenager, I didn't feel alive until end of afternoon. Grown up, I maim my efficiency cycle by offsetting it 3-6 hours to match the society cycle... Now I have to push that thing to my 4yo (who doesn't like sleeping). I feel bad to force this arbitrary schedule on her.
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28 Nov 2019
The propagation of fake news can only be understood by adressing the problem through different angles. Psychology, political science, linguistics and many others... that’s why we need more cross disciplinary research centres. Thanks @BovetAlexandre for making this crystal clear.
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28 Nov 2019
Statistical tools are powerful. A bit too powerful for our privacy comfort actually.... @cynddl
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26 Nov 2019
Our third speaker is announced for Thursday: we are glad to have Robin Devooght coming to talk about the work of @agora_brussels on statistical challenges in organizing a representative #Brussels #Citizen Assembly! #CivicTech #DataScience #meetup meetup.com/Data-Science-Comm…
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