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The Utrecht Housing dataset: A housing appraisal dataset
Van Otterloo, S and Burda, P. 2025. The Utrecht Housing dataset: A housing appraisal dataset. Computers and Society Research Journal (2025), 1 DOI: https://doi.org/10.54822/QVHM1662 Abstract This paper introduces a real-world dataset for analysing and predicting house prices. The dataset consists of actual data on the Dutch housing market collected in 2024 for a total of 153…
Sieuwert van Otterloo
Does your company have research projects for computer science students?
We are looking for innovative companies, in the Netherlands, with data-driven teams involved in security, AI or other research that are willing to provide a business problem to solve and an in-house supervisor. In return the companies will get a small team (2-3 third year computer science students) that will apply state of the art…
Pavlo Burda
VU university business track research projects
The Vrije Universiteit Business Track is a novel way for third year Computer Science students to complete their thesis. Instead of working individually on a purely academic problem, in this track they will work in small groups on a real business problem at a real company. We are looking for eight innovative companies with a…
Sieuwert van Otterloo
Comparing cloud AI services against open source libraries for face detection
The three large cloud companies Google, Microsoft and Amazon offer cloud services for many AI tasks. Using these services has practical benefits but also strategic risks: when using a service, you have less control over your AI use. In order to gain insight into the pros and cons of AI services, Elif Kalkan has done…
Sieuwert van Otterloo
Legocolor: a computer vision dataset for learning datascience
The Legocolor dataset is a new dataset designed to test common data science techniques such as k-nearest neighbour and decision trees. The dataset consists of color samples (red, green and blue value) from real world images of Lego and the official lego color of the brick, and the goal is to train a model to…
Sieuwert van Otterloo