News about Data

From streets to sensors: Copenhagen's first Datawalk explores health and urban living

Join the Copenhagen Datawalk - a new initiative by School of Global Health that explores the hidden data that shape Copenhagen's urban development.

New paper: "BROAD DATA: Ethnographic methods in the age of interdisciplinary collaboration"

On the 17th of June the DISTRACT researchers Sofie Læbo Astrupgaard, Emilie Munch Gregersen, Clara Rosa Sandbye and Morten Axel Pedersen published a new paper entitled “BROAD DATA: Ethnographic methods in the age of…

Anna Helene Kvist Møller defends PhD thesis

On the 11th of April 2025, DISTRACT affiliated Anna Helene Kvist Møller defended her PhD thesis entitled "Towards a Visual Social Data Science: An AI-Assisted Approach to Analysing Visual Collective Action." On the…

New essay in NYT on the systematic deletion of government data in the United States

Guest essay in The New York Times titled "Politicians Shouldn't Get to Delete Inconvenient Facts" co-authored by Associate Professor Nanna Bonde Thylstrup.

Lecturer creates app to help his non-coding students

Throughout both Farhad Panah’s Ph.D. and during his 3 years as a lecturer on the Microbiome Analysis course, he has longed for a better tool to perform the analyses than the ones on offer. Last summer, he built that too…

Hanzhi Wang awarded for Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation

Hanzhi Wang awarded the 2024 China Computer Federation (CCF) Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award

Mikkel Vind Abrahamsen is awarded the Semper Ardens Accelerate Grant

Associate Professor and BARC member Mikkel Vind Abrahamsen is awarded the Semper Ardens Accelerate Grant by the Carlsberg Foundation for his project "IrregularFit: Maximizing Space Efficiency for Complex Shapes".

"Weapons of Mass Distraction?" Conference held in November

On the 14th and 15th November 2024 DISTRACT hosted the conference "Weapons of Mass Distraction?"

Coming soon – offline speech recognition even on low-memory phones

More than one in four people currently integrate speech recognition into their daily lives. A new algorithm developed by a University of Copenhagen researcher and his international colleagues makes it possible to…

Jakub Tětek awarded Best Paper Distinction at FOCS'24

Jakub Tětek, PhD student from BARC, has ben awarded Best Paper Distinction at FOCS 2024.

Soft City Sensing – DISTRACT Talk with Anders Koed Madsen

On Thursday the 12th of December 2024, Professor in techno-anthropology and computational SSH at Aalborg University Anders Koed Madsen did a DISTRACT Talk suggesting that the combination of geo-coded digital traces and…

New SODAS professional training courses

You can now sign up for two new SODAS professional training courses taking place in early 2025

BARC visited ITU for the social programming event of the year

BARCies coding for drinks!

PhD Fellow: Architecture for data sharing is anything but smooth and seamless 

Data sharing across systems and countries is not just a technical challenge. It’s a negotiation filled with tension and friction, and the implications go far beyond the shape of the data architecture, says new PhD…

BARC welcomes Hanzhi Wang

BARC welcomes new Postdoc Hanzhi Wang to the team.

Emilie Munch Gregersen presents at Digital Tech Summit 2024

On October 30th DISTRACT researcher Emilie Munch Gregersen presented at the Digital Tech Summit, where she pitched the digital fieldnote app Ethnote designed for collecting, sharing, and analyzing qualitative data. …

New article: ”EthNote gives qualitative research a new format”

Recently TechSavvy Media published an article about the digital fieldnote app Ethnote, co-founded by DISTRACT researcher Emilie Munch Gregersen and DISTRACT coordinator Karoline Husbond Andersen. The article is written…

5 BARC papers at FOCS'24

BARC members and affiliates are presenting 5 papers at FOCS’24 held in Chicago, USA.

BARC welcomes Prateek Dwivedi

BARC welcomes new Postdoc Prateek Dwivedi to the team.

New paper: “Analyzing differences between discursive communities using dialectograms”

In the paper “Analyzing differences between discursive communities using dialectograms,” current and previous DISTRACT researchers Thyge Enggaard, August Lohse, Morten Axel Pedersen and Sune Lehmann introduce a new way…

BARC welcomes Mads Vestergaard Jensen

BARC welcomes new PhD student Mads Vestergaard Jensen to the team.

Mastering Meta-Control: From Cognitive Mechanisms to Practical Strategies - DISTRACT Talk by Signe Vangkilde and Rie Kristensen

On Friday the 27th of September, Signe Vangkilde and Rie Kristensen did a DISTRACT Talk where they explored core concepts and mechanisms of attention and control. They also provided research-based insights on ways of…

BARC welcomes Florestan Brunck

BARC welcomes new PhD student Florestan Brunck to the team.

Long-COVID sufferers are conserving strength with a "hack" of their fitness tech

When people suffering from the long-term effects of COVID-19 faced more questions than answers from doctors, they began collecting data on themselves using fitness watches to better understand their disease. University…