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At SmallData, we are passionate about advancing knowledge and promoting innovation in the field of small data. Our events play a key role in this mission by bringing together leading experts, pioneering researchers, and enthusiastic learners. Through our lectures, seminars, and workshops, we explore and develop small data research and methodologies. By subscribing to our […]

As part of her doctoral studies, Carola Heinzel (C01) visited Professor Jason Schweinsberg at the University of California, San Diego for about 10 weeks. During her time in San Diego, she focused on enhancing mathematical theory to estimate the net growth rate of cancer even for a small number of cells. This scientific exchange not […]

Most of us have at some point faced data of different sorts in a spreadsheet, from expense reports to medical records; this is what is called tabular data. Since the creation of data science, different tools have been developed to analyze and further learn from this information. What was once done by hand nowadays is […]

In December, our PIs, Carsten Dormann and Joschka Boedecker, published a paper in the Ecology Letters journal on their work on process-informed neural networks (PINNs). PINNs are neural networks that incorporate process based models into their prediction process. This combination is particularly useful in the field of ecology, as collected data is often sparse and […]

We’re excited to announce that SmallData will be participating in this year’s Girls’ Day on April 3, 2025!  Girls’ Day is an annual event in Germany designed to inspire and empower girls and young women to explore career opportunities in fields where women are traditionally underrepresented. These include areas such as science, technology, engineering, mathematics […]

Our doctoral researcher, Masako Kaufmann, and our PI, Toni Cathomen, were involved in a research article recently published in the Nature Methods journal titled: “Effective genome editing with an enhanced ISDra2 TnpB system and deep learning-predicted ωRNAs”. In this groundbreaking work, the research team optimized the design of a compact endonuclease (ISDra2 TnpB), originally found […]

Established in 1987, the Conference and Workshop on Neural Information Processing Systems (also known as NeurIPS) is renowned as one of the most prestigious conferences in the field of machine learning and artificial intelligence, having a singular interdisciplinary approach with the field of computational neuroscience. This year’s event took place in the city of Vancouver, […]

We were delighted to welcome members of the CRC SmallData and the public to a Bazaar Seminar on Synthetic Data today. The aim of this event is to create an opportunity for projects that are working with similar data structures or methodologies to share details of their research, with a view to identifying potential areas […]

Our principal investigator, Frank Hutter, was recently featured in an episode of the Cyber Valley Podcast. Cyber Valley is Europe’s largest research consortium in the field of artificial intelligence. In their podcast, they strive to tackle the real challenges that AI research faces with the collaboration of guest researchers from the scientific community. In their […]

Members of our CRC joined today for a seminar on the topic of “Similarity”, led by our principal investigators Johannes Hertel, from the University of Greifswald, and Nadine Binder, from the University of Freiburg. The goal of the session was to develop a common understanding of the concept of similarity and discuss how we approach […]

On November 21st, the Badische Zeitung, a local news outlet from southern germany, published an article about our CRC Small Data, highlighting the importance of small data research methods and our interdisciplinary approach, with insightful comments and takes from our Speaker and PI, Harald Binder. You can access the original german article through paid suscription here. […]