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Bridging Data and Policy

The Data Science Lab Blog explores how data-driven approaches shape public policy, featuring research insights, case studies, tools, student stories and latest updates from the Lab. 

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07.04.2026

Who controls what you see online – and does it treat everyone fairly?

Every time you scroll through social media, search for a job, or click on a news story, an algorithm is making choices on your behalf. Most of us barely notice. Ana-Andreea Stoica's research career is built around scrutinising exactly those invisible decisions – and asking whether they are fair.
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01.04.2026

When the algorithm gets It wrong: inside the hunt for bias in government AI

A young immigrant single mom in Rotterdam applies for welfare benefits. Within seconds, an algorithm flags her as high-risk for fraud. She has no idea it's happening – and neither does almost anyone else.
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15.03.2026

When the Data Becomes the Story: Laura Bronner on Scepticism, Measurement, and the Craft of Quantitative Journalism

Some of the most important stories in recent years have come out of data journalism, a form of reporting that uses the collection, analysis, and visualisation of structured data as a core part of finding and telling stories. In many of these cases, data is not merely a supplement to the story. The data becomes the story.
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27.02.2026

How democracies can survive: Strengthening democratic resilience through countering misperceptions

Democratic backsliding – the gradual erosion of democratic institutions and norms from within – is reshaping politics in ways that would have seemed unthinkable even a decade ago.
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18.12.2025

Building the invisible backbone: Henry Baker and Hertie’s Data Science Lab infrastructure

Most people encounter data science through models, datasets, and analysis. Few ever see the infrastructure that makes those experiments possible. At Hertie School's Data Science Lab, much of that invisible backbone is being designed and built by Henry Baker, research engineer and graduate of Hertie's Masters in Data Science for Public Policy programme.
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10.12.2025

Research at work: insights from the Zweitstimme workshop

At the recent Zweitstimme.org Workshop on Elections, Public Opinion & Elite Behaviour at the Hertie School, researchers from across Europe shared new insights on elites, participation and polling, highlighting how data, methodology and communication are reshaping the study of democratic politics.
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03.12.2025

How eye contact reflects confrontation in parliament: insights from Andreas Küpfer’s research

What happens when we examine political debates not only through what politicians say, but also through how they look at each other?
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24.11.2025

Mapping the dynamics of global climate technology innovation networks

At the Hertie School’s Data Science Lab recent event, Clara Krämer and Malte Toetzke of the Technical University of Munich revealed how millions of LinkedIn posts can uncover the innovation networks that drive climate technologies forward, and explained why understanding these networks is key to shaping effective green industrial policy.
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18.11.2025

Building better evidence: How smart study design drives real-world change

At our latest Brown Bag seminar, Drew Dimmery, PhD, Professor of Data Science for the Common Good at the Hertie School, invited us to rethink how we approach solving methodological problems.
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18.11.2025

Playing games with AI: What behavioural game theory reveals about large language models

Exploring how AI learns to cooperate: insights from Elif Akata’s research.
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13.11.2025

How can data help shape the future of cycling in our cities?

That was the guiding question of the workshop Data-Driven Approaches for Understanding and Advancing Urban Cycling, organised by PhD students Silke Kaiser and Carol Sobral, together with Professor Lynn Kaack at the Hertie School. 
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04.11.2025

Transport poverty and the price of transition

What happens when climate ambition meets everyday dependence on the car? That question was at the heart of the Brown Bag seminar, where Dr Giulio Mattioli examined how rising fuel prices affect vulnerable households, and what his decade-long research on transport poverty can teach policymakers about the social dimensions of decarbonisation.
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