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The Kickstarter video game dataset
The development of new videogame projects is often financed through crowdfunding. Unfortunately not all financed projects are delivered successfully. Jasser Bakridi compiled a dataset of 100 videogame projects that started as a kickstarter projects. The dataset not only contains data from the kickstarter campaign page but also the delivery status: whether the game has been…
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The Utrecht housing dataset – example dataset for prediction
The Utrecht housing dataset is a freely available dataset that can be used by students to learn about data science and machine learning. It is a synthetic dataset that was derived from actual data about the Dutch hoursing market. Since it is synthetic, it containt no noise, high qulaity data and comes in three different…
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Measuring project success: the fulfilment rate of crowdfunded projects on Kickstarter
van Otterloo, S. 2022. Measuring project success: the fulfilment rate of crowdfunded projects on Kickstarter, Computers and Society Research Journal (2022). Email: sieuwert@ictinstitute.nl DOI: https://doi.org/10.54822/SVLM1832 Abstract Crowdfunding through platforms like Kickstarter is a common way to finance development projects for innovative products. These projects have a risk of failure that is not always communicated clearly…
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Compliance for AI in healthcare companies: a survey into GDPR and AIA compliance
Yasmine Yachou, an MSc student at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, is conducting research into the impact of data laws on healthcare startups and scale-ups. The thesis research is completed.
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Practical bias correction in neural networks: A credit default prediction case study
Snel, P. and van Otterloo, S. 2022. Practical bias correction in neural networks: A credit default prediction case study, Computers and Society Research Journal (2022), 3 https://doi.org/10.54822/BEWO3288 Piet Snel and Sieuwert van Otterloo Email: sieuwert@ictinstitute.nl Article published online 11 May 2022. Abstract Artificial intelligence (AI) is increasingly being used for decision-making. Technological developments have significantly…
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