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Maximilian Schich @schichmax.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Join us today @cudanlab.bsky.social for a lab encounter with Kaisa Langer et al. – The Humanities Data Lab (HUMAL) of the Estonian Research and Cultural Data Infrastructure @etkad.bsky.social 16:00-18:00 Tallinn time UTC+3 🇪🇪🇪🇺🌍 8 hours from this post. Details & zoom: cudan.tlu.ee/events/2026-...

Picture of Pirita beach in Tallinn, Estonia, with white snow on the rocks in the foreground, black Baltic sea and fog in the middle, and BlueSky above, all together resembling the Estonian flag. Tallinn University is home to the Cultural Data Analytics Open Lab (https://cudan.tlu.ee).
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Maximilian Schich @schichmax.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Join us today @cudanlab.bsky.social for a lecture & discussion with Claudia Núñez-Pacheco of Malmö University (@mau.se) on The Felt Sense as a Design Material. ✋🧠🔧 Zoom & details: cudan.tlu.ee/events/2026-... Website: claudianunezpacheco.com

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Maximilian Schich @schichmax.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

Join us today @cudanlab.bsky.social for lecture & discussion with Frederic Fol Leymarie of Goldsmiths College on "Art.Intelligence.Machine. (AIM)" 🎨 🧠 🤖 16:00–18:00 Tallinn time (two hours from this post) Zoom link & Details: cudan.tlu.ee/events/2026-...

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Maximilian Schich @schichmax.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

Join us Monday @cudanlab.bsky.social for a lecture & discussion with #CarlaScaletti of @symbolicsound.com on #AuditoryAnalytics 🎶🔬 Data Sonification and Analytical Listening for Exploration and Discovery. 16:00-18:00 Tallinn time UTC+3 Zoom & details: cudan.tlu.ee/events/2026-... #synthsky

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Maximilian Schich @schichmax.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

Join us now @cudanlab.bsky.social for a lecture and discussion with @erc.europa.eu CoG PI Tuomo Hippala (@thiip.bsky.social) on "A Multimodal Perspective on #CulturalDataAnalytics" 16:00–18:00 Tallinn time (ten minutes from this post) Zoom link & Details: cudan.tlu.ee/events/2026-...

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Maximilian Schich @schichmax.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

Easter Special 2/2 @cudanlab.bsky.social, in place of a live seminar session, we present a video double feature, #CulturalDataAnalytics, then & now, how it started, how it is going: 2/2 How it's going: @tillmannohm.bsky.social (PhD defence 2025) www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZay...

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Tillmann Ohm: Designing Processes and Tools to Research Similarity Spaces of Visual Collections.

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Maximilian Schich @schichmax.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

Easter Special 1/2 @cudanlab.bsky.social, in place of a live seminar session, we present a video double feature, #CulturalDataAnalytics, then & now, how it started, how it is going: 1/2 How it started: @schichmax.bsky.social @juyongpark.bsky.social @yyahn.bsky.social (2013) youtu.be/_MDwv1NPT4o

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Maximilian Schich, Juyong Park, and Yong-Yeol Ahn: Cultural Network Science or How it Started (2013)

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Maximilian Schich @schichmax.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

Join us today @cudanlab.bsky.social for a lecture & discussion with Axel Bax & David Mimno @dmimno.bsky.social on "Extracting Character Movements" 📕💃🔬 16:00-18:00 Tallinn time UTC+2 🇪🇪🇪🇺🌍 (55 minutes from this post). Details & zoom: cudan.tlu.ee/events/2026-...

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Maximilian Schich @schichmax.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

Join us today @cudanlab.bsky.social for a lecture & discussion with #EvaCetinic on "A Decade of AI in the Interpretation and Creation of Art" 🎨🔬🤖🎨 Open Lab Seminar at Tallinn University 16:00-18:00 Tallinn time UTC+2 🇪🇪🇪🇺🌍 (80 minutes from this post) Details & zoom: cudan.tlu.ee/events/2026-...

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Maximilian Schich @schichmax.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

Join us today @cudanlab.bsky.social for a lecture & discussion with Elisabeth Bik @elisabethbik.bsky.social on "Errors and Misconduct in Biomedical Research Images" 🦠🔬🎨 16:00-18:00 Tallinn time UTC+2 🇪🇪🇪🇺🌍 (5 hours from this post). Details & zoom: cudan.tlu.ee/events/2026-...

Portrait of Elisabeth Bik @elisabethbik.bsky.social

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Maximilian Schich @schichmax.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

Join us today @cudanlab.bsky.social for a lecture & discussion with @oliviermorin.bsky.social on "The evolution of writing & well-designed languages" 16:00-18:00 Tallinn time UTC+2 🇪🇪🇪🇺🌍 (5 hours from this post). Details & zoom: cudan.tlu.ee/events/2026-...

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Maximilian Schich @schichmax.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

Join us Feb 16 @cudanlab.bsky.social for a lecture & discussion with #DavidStork of @stanforduniversity.bsky.social on "When computers look at art." 16:00-17:30 Tallinn time UTC+2 🇪🇪🇪🇺🌍 (15 hours from this post). Details & zoom: cudan.tlu.ee/events/2026-...

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Maximilian Schich @schichmax.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

Join us this Monday, Feb 9, @cudanlab.bsky.social for a lecture & discussion with #JanneHolmén of #UppsalaUniversity on "A #History of #Diagrams" (Paleolithic to present) 16:00-18:00 Tallinn time UTC+2 🇪🇪🇪🇺🌍 15 hours from this post. Details & zoom: cudan.tlu.ee/events/2026-... #dataviz

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Maximilian Schich @schichmax.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

"Here we measured geographical biases in the representation of cities in a large Soviet news-media corpus..." @cudanlab.bsky.social in #NatureCities @nature.com #MikhailTamm, @mila-oiva.bsky.social, #KseniaMukhina, @metsmark.bsky.social & @schichmax.bsky.social Free read rdcu.be/e1UvJ #Ukraine 🇺🇦

Putin pretends to care for Eastern Ukraine, which was under-expressed in Soviet Newsreel propaganda!

Detail from Figure 1 in Tamm, Mikhail V., Mila Oiva, Ksenia D. Mukhina, Mark Mets, and Maximilian Schich. "City representation in Soviet propaganda and geographical biases in cultural data." Nature Cities (2026). https://doi.org/10.1038/s44284-025-00380-1

"Significantly over- and underrepresented cities, insignificantly over- and underrepresented cities and cities which are mentioned roughly as expected are shown with cyan, red, grey-cyan, grey-pink and grey circles, respectively. Cities in Moscow and Donbas regions are shown in smaller circles to reduce their overlap."

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Maximilian Schich @schichmax.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

Good news everyone! Dr. Mila Oiva @mila-oiva.bsky.social our former postdoctoral senior research fellow at @cudanlab.bsky.social in #Estonia, has been appointed #professor in Digital Humanities at FAU @dhssfau.bsky.social. Congrats to Mila & my home state of #Bavaria! 🎉

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Maximilian Schich @schichmax.bsky.social · 14/12/2025

Join us Monday, Dec 14 at @cudanlab.bsky.social for a lab encounter with #MonikaKackovic et al. at @uva.nl on art & AI, endurance in fashion, Bollywood, and being ranked. 16:00-18:00 Tallinn time UTC+2 🇪🇪🇪🇺🌍 22 hours from this post. Details & zoom: cudan.tlu.ee/events/2025-... Web: www.cix-lab.org

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Maximilian Schich @schichmax.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

Oleg Sobchuk @sobchuk.bsky.social @cudanlab.bsky.social "Evolution of Literature and the Arts." www.youtube.com/watch?v=zLnZ... (title slide fixed)

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Oleg Sobchuk: Evolution of Literature and the Arts.

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Maximilian Schich @schichmax.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

Corinna Coupette @dataspider.bsky.social @cudanlab.bsky.social "Computational Perspectives on Legal Systems." www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCW5...

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Corinna Coupette: Computational Perspectives on Legal Systems.

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Maximilian Schich @schichmax.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

Oleg Sobchuk @sobchuk.bsky.social @cudanlab.bsky.social "Evolution of Literature and the Arts." www.youtube.com/watch?v=zLnZ...

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Oleg Sobchuk: Evolution of Literature and the Arts.

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Maximilian Schich @schichmax.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

Christian Bentz @cudanlab.bsky.social "Statistical properties of a 40,000 year old sign system." www.youtube.com/watch?v=rmwU...

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Christian Bentz: Statistical properties of a 40,000 year old sign system.

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Maximilian Schich @schichmax.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

Andrew Piper @andrewpiper.bsky.social @cudanlab.bsky.social "Computationally Modeling Collective Narratives." www.youtube.com/watch?v=WTg1...

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Andrew Piper: Computationally Modeling Collective Narratives.

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Maximilian Schich @schichmax.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

Join us today @cudanlab.bsky.social for a lecture and discussion with Corinna Coupette of @aalto.fi in person @dataspider.bsky.social 💽🕷️ on Computational Perspectives on Legal Systems 🤖🔭⚖️ 16:00-18:00 Tallinn time UTC+2 🇪🇪🇪🇺🌍 5.5 hours from this post. Details & zoom: cudan.tlu.ee/events/2025-...

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Corinna Coupette – CUDAN Lecture

When: 2025-12-08 16:00-18:00 (Tallinn time) Where: A108 & online The event is public via zoom: https://zoom.us/j/94629959885?pwd=2NktNsXm0SzbzwwmfGbqlk5UZQoARw.1 Meeting ID: 946 2995 9885 Passcode: 00...

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Maximilian Schich @schichmax.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

Join us today @cudanlab.bsky.social for a lecture and discussion feat. Oleg Sobchuk @sobchuk.bsky.social, of @mpi-eva-leipzig.bsky.social on "Evolution of Literature and the Arts" 16:00-18:00 Tallinn time (UTC+2) i.e. 60 minutes from this post. Details & zoom: cudan.tlu.ee/events/2025-...

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Maximilian Schich @schichmax.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

Join us today @cudanlab.bsky.social feat. #CompSocSci Prof. Dr. #LauraNelson: "We’re Talking About the Wrong Error: Why Variance Matters More than Bias in AI" 16:00-18:00 Tallinn time (UTC+2) i.e. 15 minutes from this post. Details & zoom: cudan.tlu.ee/events/2025-...

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Maximilian Schich @schichmax.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

Join us today❗⏰ Wednesday @cudanlab.bsky.social feat. Christian Bentz PI of www.erc-evine.de at Saarland University, Germany on Statistical properties of a 40,000 year old sign system 16:00-18:00 Tallinn time (UTC+2) i.e. 60 minutes from this post. Details & zoom: cudan.tlu.ee/events/2025-...

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Maximilian Schich @schichmax.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

Join us today @cudanlab.bsky.social feat. Andrew Piper @andrewpiper.bsky.social at McGill University, Montreal, Canada on Computationally Modeling Collective Narratives ❗⏰ 17:00-19:00 Tallinn time (UTC+2) i.e. 60 minutes from this post. Details & zoom: cudan.tlu.ee/events/2025-...

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Maximilian Schich @schichmax.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

Join us today @cudanlab.bsky.social feat. @melvinwevers.bsky.social, Computational Historian @uva.nl on The Architecture of Information: Uncovering Structure in Newspapers, Parliaments, and Administrative Archives 16:00-18:00 Tallinn time (UTC+2) Details & zoom: cudan.tlu.ee/events/2025-...

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Maximilian Schich @schichmax.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

Join us today @cudanlab.bsky.social feat. #MeeyoungCha Scientific Director, MPI for Security and Privacy @maxplanck.de on AI, Society, and Computing: Leveraging Global Data While Tackling Ethical Challenges 16:00-18:00 Tallinn time (UTC+3) Details & zoom link: cudan.tlu.ee/events/2025-...

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Maximilian Schich @schichmax.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

Today @cudanlab.bsky.social 🔥 Maria Rita D'Orsogna on America’s overdose crisis & Saving Italy from Big Oil #CulturalDataAnalytics Open Lab Seminar double feature lecture & discussion 2025-05-26, 16:00-18:00 (Tallinn time) Zoom link & abstracts: cudan.tlu.ee/events/2025-... Last in S25 season!

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Maximilian Schich @schichmax.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

Join us today! 🔬🎤🙋 #MártonKarsai of @weareceu.bsky.social on Socioeconomic patterns and their dynamics in social networks and language @cudanlab.bsky.social 2025-05-12 16:00-18:00 (Tallinn time) Zoom & details: cudan.tlu.ee/events/2025-... #CulturalDataAnalytics #Complexity #NetSci #CompSocSci

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Maximilian Schich @schichmax.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

Join us today for lecture & discussion with Jorge Caballero on #AI in #Documentary #Cinema #CulturalDataAnalytics Open Lab Seminar @cudanlab.bsky.social 2025-04-21 at 18:30-19:30 UTC+3 🇪🇪 🏖️ A bit later & shorter than usual! Zoom+details: cudan.tlu.ee/events/2025-... & www.baued.es/en/teachers/...

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Jorge Caballero, PhD. Audiovisual Filmmaker, Producer and Researcher

Trained in telecommunications engineering and audiovisual communication, with a master's degree in interactive media, he furthered his academic career with a doctorate in film and artificial intel...

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Maximilian Schich @schichmax.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

Join us for a lecture & discussion with Atau Tanaka www.gold.ac.uk/computing/pe... on #Human #Learning X #MachineLearning #CulturalDataAnalytics Open Lab Seminar @cudanlab.bsky.social 2025-04-14 at 16:00-18:00 UTC+3 🇪🇪 🏖️ Zoom & abstract: cudan.tlu.ee/events/2025-...

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Prof Atau Tanaka

Atau researches embodied musical interaction, human computer interaction and gestural computer music performance.

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Maximilian Schich @schichmax.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

Join us for a lecture & discussion with Theresa Heyd @theresaheyd.bsky.social 🎉 on #Cringe: The Sociolinguistics of Digital Affects #CulturalDataAnalytics Open Lab Seminar @cudanlab.bsky.social 2025-03-31 at 16:00-18:00 UTC+3 🇪🇪 🏖️ Zoom & abstract: cudan.tlu.ee/events/2025-...

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Maximilian Schich @schichmax.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

#CulturalDataAnalytics Today! 🧬 Marta Bertolaso 🧬 "Global Biodata Governance" @cudanlab.bsky.social 16:00-18:00 UTC+2 Zoom & abstract: cudan.tlu.ee/events/2025-...

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Maximilian Schich @schichmax.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

#CulturalDataAnalytics Today! 🔥Andrea Baronchelli🔥 (@baronca.bsky.social) "From Local #Interactions to Global #Conventions: Emergent Social #Coordination in #Humans and #Machines." @cudanlab.bsky.social 16:00-18:00 UTC+2 Zoom & abstract: cudan.tlu.ee/events/2025-... #CompSocSci #GenAI #Bias

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Maximilian Schich @schichmax.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

Join us today at @cudanlab.bsky.social for a #CulturalDataAnalytics Open Lab Seminar lecture by Andrew Iliadis (andrewiliadis.com) 16:00-1800 EET Tallinn time 14:00-16:00 UTC London time 10:00-12:00 EDT Philly time Zoom: cudan.tlu.ee/events/2025-... Publications: andrewiliadis.com/publications/

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Publications - Andrew Iliadis

Books Iliadis, A. (2025). Autonomous Defense: How Tech Companies are Crafting and Cashing in on the Future of Warfare. Under contract. Ruyer, R. (2023). Cybernetics and the origin of information (A. B...

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Maximilian Schich @schichmax.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Descriptions of women are longer than that of men: An analysis of gender portrayal prompts in Stable Diffusion. arxiv.org/abs/2411.18994 #Aesthetics #Complexity #DescriptionLength #UtPicturaPoesis Kudos to Yan Asadchy, PhD candidate @cudanlab.bsky.social, for initiating & performing this analysis!

Fig 1. The description length of women is systematically longer than men's with a tailed length distribution and a meaningful median. Very few Discord users are accountable for the longest prompts. A. Images of women are overrepresented compared to men (1,606,013 vs 779,200). B. Images of men are described in fewer words than those of women. As the length of the prompt increases, the distributions exhibit a sharp decline of around 50-80 words in length, highlighting the end of the optimal prompt length. The orange dashed line indicates the prompt length limit of 2000 characters (approx. 350 words) specified by the Discord platform. C. Distribution of unique users by prompt length for images depicting men and women. The x-axis indicates prompt length in words, while the y-axis shows the number of unique users on a logarithmic scale. The trend shows that the highest number of unique users prefer prompts around 20-50 words to describe images of men and women, with a significant decline in unique users as prompt length increases. Despite differences in the median prompt length, the overall prompt construction pattern is similar across gendered images, suggesting a shared preference for concise prompts.

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Maximilian Schich @schichmax.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

5 Keynotes in #CulturalDataAnalytics @cudanlab.bsky.social Nov 18 @jevinwest.bsky.social & @carlbergstrom.com Nov 25 Vittorio Loreto Dec 2 Miriah Meyer Dec 9 Alexandra Arkhipova Dec 16 @iyadrahwan.bsky.social Details & Zoom links: cudan.tlu.ee #CulturalAnalytics 🌎🌍🌏 Program 🧵 1/6

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Maximilian Schich @schichmax.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Jevin West @jevinwest.bsky.social & Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com on #Numbers, #Statistics, and #Algorithms: Seeing Through the #BS Monday, Nov 18, 2024 17:00-19:00 (Tallinn time GMT+2) #CUDAN Open Lab Keynote 1/5 @cudanlab.bsky.social Details & Zoom link: cudan.tlu.ee/events/2024-...

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Maximilian Schich @schichmax.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Vittorio Loreto on New #Scenarios for #Inclusive and #Sustainable #Cities Monday, Nov 25, 2024 17:00-19:00 (Tallinn time GMT+2) #CUDAN Open Lab Keynote 2/5 @cudanlab.bsky.social Details & Zoom link: cudan.tlu.ee/events/2024-...

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Maximilian Schich @schichmax.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Miriah Meyer on #Troubling #Visualization Monday, Dec 2, 2024 17:00-19:00 (Tallinn time GMT+2) #CUDAN Open Lab Keynote 3/5 @cudanlab.bsky.social Details & Zoom link: cudan.tlu.ee/events/2024-...

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Maximilian Schich @schichmax.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Alexandra Arkhipova on #Necrospeech: Russian Talk and Silence in the Wartime Monday, Dec 9, 2024 17:00-19:00 (Tallinn time GMT+2) #CUDAN Open Lab Keynote 4/5 @cudanlab.bsky.social Details & Zoom link: cudan.tlu.ee/events/2024-...

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Maximilian Schich @schichmax.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Iyad Rahwan @iyadrahwan.bsky.social on #MachineCulture Monday, Dec 16, 2024 15:00-17:00 (Tallinn time GMT+2) #CUDAN Open Lab Keynote 5/5 @cudanlab.bsky.social Details & Zoom link: cudan.tlu.ee/events/2024-...

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cudanlab.bsky.social @cudanlab.bsky.social · 03/11/2024

Hello world! @cudanlab.bsky.social is the official account of the Cultural Data Analytics Open Lab at Tallinn University in Estonia. cudan.tlu.ee What is Cultural Data Analytics? See www.youtube.com/@CUDANLab/vi... We will transfer our content from www.twitter.com/cudanlab Stay tuned for more!

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