Measuring Rights

Hello dear reader! This post tells a data scientist’s story about working with (human rights violations) data. The post is not about showing results of human rights violations (some are of course included), but about experiences when preparing data for analysis. It is often said that 80% of the work of data analyst is data preparation. So, this post tells you what is usually not shown, the struggle to get a dataset into the right shape for analysis.

This is a special post. It is not linked to human rights or citizenship, but to data analysis and … running. Yes, I started running a lot during the pandemic as a way to deal with stressful times, including working from home and home schooling of kids etc. I never liked running much, but in the past years, I really started enjoying it. Already in 2021, I joined the marathon relay team of the Fundamental Rights Agency at the Vienna City Marathon (VCM), where I ran the first leg of 15.

by David Reichel British citizens acquiring citizenship of an(other) EU Member State After the Brexit vote, it was quite clear that many British people, who are living in other EU Member States, will want to acquire the citizenship of their country of residence - just to make sure to keep residence rights and all benefits derived from EU citizenship (which is tied to having nationality of a Member State of the EU).

by David Reichel Ethical artificial intelligence Discussions around the use of artificial intelligence (AI) are everywhere. Pictures of robots, stories about artificial general intelligence (AGI) and the use of algorithms are featured almost daily in news papers these days. While one should not believe the hype, the past years have certainly seen major technological developments in the area of machine learning and other areas, which have contributed to many new opportunities, but at the same time present challenges for society.