Timo Spinde
Doctoral Researcher
SHORT BIOGRAPHY
After finishing a double bachelor’s degree in ”Internet Computing” (Computer Science) and "Media and Communications”, I followed up on my research interest in data science and data driven journalism by pursuing a master’s degree in ”Social and Economic Data Analysis”. I recently started my own project called ”CitizenData”, a platform for crowdsourcing structured data, which will also be a (small) part of my PhD. Mainly, I focus on news analysis and am working on a system to automatically detect media bias.
RESEARCH INTERESTS
My research interests are:
Media bias analysis
- Natural Language Processing (NLP)
- Network Analysis
SHORT CV
| 01/2020 – present | Doctoral Researcher University of Wuppertal |
| 10/2016 – 02/2019 | Social and Economic Data Analysis, M. Sc. University of Konstanz |
| 10/2018 – 02/2019 | Visiting Researcher Technion Haifa & University of Haifa, Israel |
| 04/2016 – 08/2016 | Data Scientist intern Celonis Ltd., Munich |
| 10/2012 – 02/2019 | Hanns-Seidel-Stiftung scholarship holder Journalistic excellence program |
| 04/2012 – 12/2015 | Media and Communications, B.A., and Internet Computing, B. Sc. University of Passau |
PROJECTS & TEACHING
Below you can find examples of potential student projects.
If a project interests you, simply send me an email. To see all courses of our group, visit our Students Corner.
Students projects
- The slides below are examples of student research projects that I'm currently offering. Here you can open the slides in high resolution:
- Open project slides as PDF
Project description for my collaboration with Akiko Aizawa at NII
PUBLICATIONS
- T. Spinde, F. Hamborg, A. Becerra, K. Donnay, and B. Gipp, “Enabling News Consumers to View and Understand Biased News Coverage: A Study on the Perception and Visualization of Media Bias,” in Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL), 2020.