Health Telescope now recruiting

Hi all,

We are very happy to share that the health telescope research program is now recruiting participants! Please see www.health-telescope.com for more information.

We are also happy to welcome Loukas Konstantinou to our lab: he is visiting us for this semester to work on his PhD research.

Cheers,

Maurits

Efficient BART

Ooops… Just noticed I forgot to upload the actual article on “fast BART”. The article is called “Continuous-Time Birth-Death MCMC for Bayesian Regression Tree Models” by Reza Mohammadi, Matthew Pratola, and Maurits Kaptein. In the paper we describe a novel sampling approach for the popular Bayesian Additive Regression Tree model. 

The paper can be found here: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1904.09339.pdf 

Persuasive and BART

Hi all,

I (Maurits) am currently attending Persuasive2019; its an interesting conference! We just finished our session on research methods for persuasive tech; please see the slides we used to stimulate the discussion here. Also, tomorrow I will be giving a talk at the Cyprus University of Technology. Slides are available here.

Next, we are (Reza Mohammadi, Matthew Pratola, and I) are wrapping up our work on Bayesian Additive Regression Trees; we will be submitting the paper shortly, but I can already share a link to the associated R package: https://bitbucket.org/mpratola/openbt.

Cheers,

Maurits

 

Conference visits

Hi all,

Quite a lot happened in the lab recently. We are excited to be piloting the Health Telescope project, and we will do a longer update on this soon. We also have a number of other exciting projects that are almost wrapping up, and we will share the papers as soon as they are ready. For now however a small update on where to find us at conferences shortly:

  1. This April we will be presenting work at — and moderating a session at — Persuasive 2019. Maurits will be presenting some of our work on Friday the 12th of April at the University of Cyprus.
  2. In June Nikos will talk about the infrastructure for the health thelescope at SAA.
  3. Zoltan will be presenting his work on active experimentation for churn management at SCECR.
    We are looking forward to meeting you at any of these events!

Health Telescope: Pilots starting

Hi all,

In the first weeks of 2019 we will be starting our pilots for the health-telescope project (see https://health-telescope.com); this is an exciting project in which we — over time — monitor the usage of eHealth interventions, measure there effect, and provide personalized recommendations. If you are interested in participating in the pilot, or in joining the project, please contact us!

We are looking forward to a great 2019, with numerous new insights on personalization, new publications (such at the book Statistics for Data Scientists), and new software (check out our GitHub here).

Thanks, and enjoy the Holidays!

Maurits