Category: News
A graph-based snapshot of the Swiss job market
If an EPFL student wanted to know which skills are in high demand in the Swiss job market, where would they go? Matteo Giorla, a student working at the CEDE for his semester project, has developed an interactive web app that shows a snapshot of the Swiss job market in early 2017. The data was collected (…)
An artful view of MOOCs forum exchanges across the world
Emma Lejal-Glaude, a student working at the CEDE for her semester project, developed a smooth visualisation of student interactions in EPFL MOOC forums. We can see the average pattern of interactions over a 24h period in the entire world (in both French and English language), as well as inwards and outwards of Lausanne. The visualisation nicely (…)
The Campus Analytics project has been launched
The EPFL administration will now be able to collaborate with EPFL’s research labs to perform advanced analytics on its own institutional data. Our research labs are among the best in the world in areas such as machine learning, artificial intelligence, and network science, and their knowhow can help EPFL policy makers better understand how the (…)
The world watching MOOC videos over a 24h period
The giant interactive monolith in the Datasquare center at the EPFL ArtLab building now has a cool visualisation of students watching EPFL MOOC videos across the world over a 24h period. The Datasquare center is a welcome area where campus visitors can learn about the main research projects under way at EPFL, particularly projects in the domains (…)