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04/12/2025 Student Assistant for Science Communication Focus
We are looking for you: Student Assistant for Science Communication Focus: Text and Visual Content (m/f/x) in Munich.
29/10/2025 Unai Fischer Abaigar was interviewed on the Executive Code podcast
27/10/2025 Frauke Kreuter receives the 2026 Waksberg Award
14/10/2025 Recent Article featuring Prof. Kreuter published: “AI has become transformative”
08/09/2025 Publication Alert: New Benchmark Dataset for Greenhouse Gas Emissions
23/08/2025 Publication Alert: Promoting Self-Regulation Skills in Children and Adolescents
13/08/2025 Women in Data Science (WiDS) Munich event returns for 2025
13/08/2025 Dr. Anna-Carolina Haensch Appointed to APSA Task Force on Artificial Intelligence and Political Science
08/08/2025 Publication Alert: Pre-Trained Nonresponse Prediction in Panel Surveys with Machine Learning
06/08/2025 SODA Lab @ ACL 2025: NLP in Social Science and Humanity Studies
Vienna, July 27 to August 1st, 2025
30/07/2025 SODA Members featured in ESRA Podcast Series
24/07/2025 Sarah Ball featured in latest "Neuland" by BR episode: AI in Our Everyday Lives
21/07/2025 SODA Lab @ ESRA 2025: Emerging Topics in Survey Methodology
13/07/2025 SODA @ ICML 2025: Papers and Awards
Vancouver, July 13–19, 2025
13/07/2025 Outstanding Paper Award at ICML 2025
Vancouver, July 13–19, 2025
01/07/2025 Job Alert: GreenDIA B-Plan-Project Student Assistant
26/06/2025 Frauke Kreuter explains: Why Data Quality Matters for Better and Fairer AI
10/06/2025 Publication Alert: Algorithms for Reliable Decision-Making Need Causal Reasoning
04/06/2025 Felicitas Sommer featured in recent Deutschlandfunk Nova Article: "Rent Cap"
02/06/2025 SODA Lab at the 80th AAPOR conference
02/06/2025 AAPOR 2025 Best Poster Award for Sarah Ball
28/04/2025 DAGStat 2025 Best Poster Award for Laia Domenech Burin
12/04/2025 SODA Lab @ DAGStat 2025: Statistics in Times of AI
10/04/2025 LMU-NYU-Workshop “Making Data Work: Tools for Better Statistical Practice”
20/01/2025 Data Scarcity and AI Solutions: Social Research in New Ways
The social sciences rely on data from surveys or data about users. To obtain it, LMU researchers are increasingly relying on artificial intelligence and analyzing digital footprints.
05/01/2025 Job Alert: Student Research Assistant Developing a MS Access Database (m/f/x)
05/01/2025 Job Alert: Student Research Assistant Focusing on Data Collection and Analysis (m/f/x)
09/12/2024 The Question of Trusted AI: Why Is It Important, and What Does It Depend On?
22/11/2024 Epistemic Foundations and Limitations of Statistics Workshop with Walter Radermacher
08/11/2024 Job Alert: Student Research Assistant in Natural Language Processing (NLP) (m/f/x)
29/08/2024 WiDS Munich Conference on 10.10.2024
17/07/2024 Pandemic Recovery Survey Data Is Available via GESIS
17/07/2024 Prof. Frauke Kreuter Elected as President of AAPOR
15/07/2024 Job Alert: Junior Research Group Leader “Applied Data Analytics and AI for the Public Sector”
12/06/2024 GPT-Based Predictions for the European Elections Differ Greatly From Conventional Polls – and the Results
17/05/2024 Sarah Ball featured in the latest ARD-"KI-Podcast" on AI safety
08/05/2024 Job Alert: Postdoc CSS/Survey Methodology
30/04/2024 Job Alert: Project Manager - Data Science for Social Good 2024 (m/f/d)
11/04/2024 Visit by the Bavarian Minister of State for Digital Affairs
28/03/2024 DataFest Germany 2024 - Announcement
07/03/2024 Dr. Felicitas Sommer Discusses "Rent Survey Munich": Recent Newspaper Interview
21/02/2024 DSSGx Munich 2024 - Call for Projects
19/02/2024 Rent Survey Munich - Highlighted in Recent News Coverage
12/07/2023 News-Coverage about Women in Data Science Munich
10/07/2023 Eine kurze Reise durch die KI – Talk by Prof. Kreuter at Futurium
16/05/2023 Women in Data Science (WiDS) Munich Conference

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