Data Science Center

As part of the DataNord project, the Data Science Center (DSC) contributed to this year’s WiNoDa Winter School: Sarah Büker led a hands-on workshop on the Galaxy platform, thereby strengthening collaboration between the two data competence centers.

DataNord coordinators Tanja H?rner and Lena Steinmann presented the project at this year’s NFDI4DataScience Conference in Berlin, helping to deepen the collaboration between Data Competency Centers and the National Research Data Infrastructure (NFDI).

Research with large datasets is becoming increasingly relevant across various academic disciplines. In a position paper, 40 researchers from 21 German and Austrian research institutes are calling for greater political and academic engagement in digital and data sciences.

The research stay will provide the necessary datasets to support the development of a 3D numerical model for Baffin Bay (located between Greenland & Canada). The model will be used to provide insights into hydrocarbon distribution patterns that will be evaluated during an upcoming research cruise.

Mid-March, the E-Science-Days 2025 took place in Heidelberg. The theme of this year's conference was "Research Data Management: Challenges in a Changing World". DSC coordinator Dr. Lena Steinmann attended the conference to give a presentation on the data competence center "DataNord".

At the Data Community Club meeting on 22 October, the team from the Data Science Center hosted an interactive World Café on current topics in Data Analytics – bringing together lively discussions, expert insights, and new perspectives.

We are seeking a student assistant (m/f/d) to support us in website maintenance, event organization, and science communication.

The funded project examines how African and Afrodescendant people in Romance-speaking Europe engage with digital platforms to articulate narratives and build diasporic identities. The SQL database system will support the documentation and analysis of Afrodiasporic online presences.

As part of the DSC's DataNord subproject, Serafin Arhelger will be working as a data journalist in residence over the coming months to share practical skills in communicating data-based research and to promote exchange between researchers and data journalists.

Sarah Büker and Annika Nolte contributed a hands-on workshop as part of the BMFTR-funded DataNord project, focusing on the topic “From Data to Interactive Maps.”