Category: PDL Team
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Low employment rates, long working days in the cleaning sector
Reta Barfuss forscht zu ungewollter Teilzeitarbeit. Im Gespräch erklärt die Doktorandin, weshalb viele Gebäudereiniger:innen trotz tiefem Pensum lange Arbeitstage haben.
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«Was wird möglich, wenn ihr eure Daten öffentlich macht?»
«Open Data ist ein abstraktes Thema, das immer noch zu selten Priorität geniesst», meint Anna Sigrist, Co-Geschäftsleiterin von Opendata.ch. Wie ihr das PDL bei dieser Herausforderung hilft, erzählt sie im Interview.
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Bringing people closer to machine learning through art
Lukas Drees is a Post Doc in the EcoVision Lab at UZH. In his research, he focuses on the interface between machine learning and environmental sciences.
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On Precarious Work and Invisible People
From Bonn to Bogotá, Kiel and São Paulo to Zurich – this is the geographical description of Merlin Hebecker's journey. What connects these places is his interest in social inequalities.
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Making the Invisible Visible
The people and their employment situations that Karin Schwiter researches are often not captured by official statistics. In this interview, the Professor of Labour Geography at the University of Zurich explains how such data gaps arise and how they can be made visible.
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”Society also needs an affective connection to data and data-driven decision-making”
The DIZH Public Data Lab is not solely a data project. It also aims to build a relationship with civil society. The ideas come from Marcel Bleuler from the Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK).
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Our Advisory Board is appointed
Nikki Böhler, Petra Keller, Nicola Forster, Daniel Morgenthaler and Ralph Straumann will be supporting us over the next five years. They bring a wealth of experience from various fields relevant to the DIZH Public Data Lab.
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“Through art and design, we aim to build trust in data-driven decision-making”
Marcel Bleuler represented the Public Data Lab in the panel discussion at the DIZH Plenary Assembly.
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To delve deeply into a subject
On 1 June 2025, Louis Moser joined the DIZH Public Data Lab (PDL). As part of his PhD, he will develop an index of multiple deprivation for the Canton of Zurich.
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“Together, we want to develop indicators that do not yet exist”
There is a wealth of freely available data from public offices and organisations in Switzerland. Unlocking more potential from these data is one goal Ross Purves, Professor at the University of Zurich, pursues with the Public Data Lab.