The Serious Side of Entertainment
The film industry is one of the biggest industries in our society. It is a booming business with one mission: to entertain. To some...
Personalized advertising: unloved or simply unknown?
In the last years, online advertising has gone through a major transformation. Instead of seeing random banners on websites and getting...
Experiments Without Explosions
News outlets often discuss scientific research investigating possible causal relationships between two factors. One such causal...
Staying on Track: Finding Motivation at the Intersection of Autonomy, Competence, and Relatedness
The road of a PhD candidate can be long and troublesome. Data collection is always delayed, your paper gets rejected (again!), and an...
The Five Stages of Big Data Grief
This year, I embarked on the half-exciting /half-terrifying task of conquering the theories and practices of Big Data analysis. For some,...