2018-12-31
12 December
Published A Quantitative Approach to Book-Printing in Sweden and Finland, 1640–1828
12 December
Significantly improved CRAN release for the pxweb R package. Automated access to data from dozens of statistical authorities globally.
11 December
Leo Lahti nominated to Digital Humanities advisory board by National Library of Finland
6 December
Presentation on microbiome data science at European Bioconductor Meeting 2018 in Munich (Slides (PDF)).
5 December
Best oral poster for Anna Aatsinki in Turku Computational Life Science meeting. Congratulations!
5 December
Dr. Elin Org from University of Tarto and Dr. Umer Ijaz from Glasgow University on a research visit in our lab!
22 November
Invited lecture on population cohort studies of the human microbiome at ICMR2018, Pune, India.
14 November
Trends in data science. Presentation at KELA, Finland.
26 October
Hierarchical stochastic time series analysis presented by Ville Laitinen in IDA 2018.
24 October
Talk on Open Data Science in Intelligent Data Analysis (IDA2018) (PDF)
17 September
EMBL/EMBO Human Microbiome talk in Heidelberg by Leo Lahti (PDF)
17 September
Poster presentation at EMBL/EMBO Human Microbiome poster in Heidelberg by Ville Laitinen (PDF)
28 August
Academic publisher prices for 2017 released by MoE
15 August
Open Data Science IDA preprint available.
23 July
New release of the eurostat R package in CRAN.
22 July
Review published on microbial communities as dynamical systems.
21 July
Presentation accepted to Helsinki StanCon 2018 by Ville Laitinen.
14 July
Stool Microbiota Composition Differs in Patients with Stomach, Colon, and Rectal Neoplasms published in Digestive Diseases and Sciences journal.
12 July
Two papers accepted in Intelligent Data Analysis (IDA) 2018.
31 June
Stability estimation of autoregulated genes under Michaelis-Menten type kinetics published in Phys. Rev. E.
28 June
Signatures of ecological processes in microbial community time series published in Microbiome journal.
19 June
Open Research Policy published by University of Turku, with contributions from our lab.
10 June Leo Lahti joins editorial board of Versus journal.
6 June Quantitative analysis of public discourse in Europe 1470-1910. Presentation in Benelux Digital Humanities Conference, Amsterdam, by Simon Hengchen.
4-6 June Numerical ecology research workshop; co-organized with Prof. Umer Ijaz in Glasgow, UK
28-30 May <a href=“https://mibwurrepo.github.io/OPEN-REPRODUCIBLE-MICROBIOME-DATA-ANALYSIS->Open and reproducible microbiome data analysis - Int’l summer school in Wagningen, Netherlands
21 May “Anastasia Karavaeva joins the team as a MSc student - welcome!”
17 May Finnish research libraries release full agreements with academic publishers following our recent FOI request.
16 May “Joonatan Palmu joins as a new co-supervised PhD student - welcome!”
3 May Academy of Finland consortium funding for health research 2018-2022.
30 April Book chapter published by Gaudeamus Digitaaliset ihmistieteet ja historiantutkimus
1 April “Aaro Salosensaari is joining our team as a new PhD student - welcome!”
7-9 March <a href=“https://www.helsinki.fi/en/helsinki-centre-for-digital-humanities/dhn->Digital Humanities in the Nordics 2018 Conference in Helsinki, Finland
9 March Registration open to Open Science workshops in DHN2018, Helsinki
26 February Introduction to probabilistic programming Workshop in VIB/KU Leuven, Belgium
23 January Story in Helsingin Sanomat (in Finnish) on our research in computational history.