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Day: 24 September 2014

  • DFG project on extracting emotions for urban research started

    Recently the new research project “Urban Emotions” has started. It is funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) and aims at the development of a methodology to extract contextual emotional information for spatial planning based on real-time people-as-sensors and crowdsourcing approaches with social media. The spatial and social structures of a city and its underlying…

  • High Rankings for Heidelberg University

    While this is a bit off-subject it might be interesting to know that Heidelberg University as a whole scored again very well in the latest international university rankings: According to both QS World University Ranking and Shanghai Ranking it is again the best university in Germany and increased it’s worldwide ranking to 49.