a dash of code, a pinch of science
Good news! A paper I have been coauthoring and co-developing with Jules Kruijswijk, Petri Parvinen and Maurits Kaptein has just been accepted at the Journal of Statistical Software! The paper, “StreamingBandit: Experimenting with Bandit Policies” describes …
The Bubble, an algorithmic artwork I have been working on with the artist and photographer Johan Nieuwenhuize, was unveiled today during the opening of the academic year at the The Hague University of Applied Sciences. …
Above, a video visualizing two of our participants’ ECG responding to music in real-time. Yellow and green lines represent their ECG’s, red the level of synchrony between them. The audio is a live recording of …
Jules Kruijswijk (first author), Maurits Kaptein and Florian Böing-Messing and I have recently been working on a paper on the application of partial pooling (or shrinkage) models in (contextual) multi-armed bandit problems: The (contextual) multi-armed …
Slides from my recent presentation at the biweekly “Computational Personalisation” lab meeting – an outline of R Package Development, based on my experience in developing the R package “Contextual“. How to create an R package …
Recently, I have completed a Javascript (ES6, React, and Material Design)Â admin application for “StreamingBandit”, a Python server that helps setting up and running online streaming (contextual) bandit experiments. This management front-end makes it very easy …
Friday January 12th, Maurits Kaptein, my promoter, good friend and founder of the JADS “Computation Personalisation” lab, was inaugurated as Professor (by special appointment ) Data Science & Health at the JADS and Tilburg University. You …
With a team consisting of Ettore Majorana, Andrea Giansanti, Davide Iannuzzi and Maurits Kaptein, we are currently investigating how people perceive beauty, complexity, and symmetry in paintings. To get a better feel for the subject, …
“Psychology and Aging” just accepted our* latest paper, which offers new insights into how aging appears to change our emotional resilience towards monetary gains and losses for the better. The abstract: People of all ages …
I am happy to announce that I have been accepted as a researcher at the Jheronimus Academy of Data Science! In a nutshell, this means that I am now allowed to travel to beautiful ‘s-Hertogenbosch …
. I was asked to put some basic code examples online to help developers get started with the Totem Bobbi Motion + ECG Monitor. For those not in the know: “The Bobbi” is a very …
A short screencast of my Kinect Dyadic Distance App in action at Johan Nieuwenhuize’s studio! The app makes use of the live data streams from a Microsoft Kinect motion sensing device to continuously calculate the …
Yay! Our latest paper at the interface between physics and human behavior has just been published in PlosOne. We’re on a roll! Scripts, code and data sets are available at the Harvard Dataverse. Abstract: Due …
Just returned from a very pleasant stay at the University of Rijeka Faculty of Psychology, where was invited to give a talk on how recent technological advances can help further our understanding of the intricate …
During her visit to our lab Carina Remmers presented some interesting work on how scoring higher on a mindfulness scale may correlate with lower accessibility to intuitive processes. Since I still had data lying around …