Blog Machine Learning
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
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 suitable for multiple techniques, including decision trees, linear regression, logistic regression and neural networks. Note: the dataset was updated in 2025, see a detailed description of the latest 2025 version…
Sieuwert van Otterloo
Summer school AI and machine learning
In June 2021 we taught a one week summerschool at the Utrecht University of Applied Sciences. In this article we outline how this week was set up and share some of the lecture material. (note: for the 2022 edition, check this article on the Utrecht Housing Dataset)
Sieuwert van Otterloo
AI, Machine Learning and neural networks explained
This summer, we were invited by the Utrecht University of Applied Sciences to explain artificial intelligence, machine learning and neural networks.In a one hour webinar, we used python to train an actual neural network, showed the audience what can go wrong and how to fix it, with time left for discussing the ethical implications of…
Sieuwert van Otterloo
Coursera machine learning course
The Coursera Machine Learning course by Stanford University is a great advanced course on Artificial Intelligence. If you are interested in becoming an AI expert, you fortunately do not need to pursue a bachelor, master, or PhD in AI to learn what terms like Intelligent Agents, Machine Learning, and Neural Networks mean. In this article…
Joost Krapels