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Maths on a boat: Fred Morstatter

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We spoke to Fred Morstatter on a boat trip on the beautiful River Neckar, during the 2017 Heidelberg Laureate Forum. Fred is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Southern California Information Science Institute. He talked to us about biases in social media data and how to avoid them.

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