Prof. Dr. Simon Hegelich
Professor of Political Data Science, Bavarian School of Public Policy | Technical University of Munich
Measuring opinion power and diversity on the Internet: Towards a new conception of regulating media concentration
What could control of media concentration that secures the functioning of the political public sphere in the age of digitalisation look like?
Differential Privacy: New approaches for managing social big data
The research project explored how valid statistical conclusions can be drawn without violating individual privacy. During the project a software environment for implementing differential privacy was developed.
Data
A simple explanation of the term data is to see data as symbols containing information. These symbols are interpreted by the recipients of the data.