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Moritz Laurer

Research Assistant Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS)

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Biography

Moritz Laurer is a computational social scientist at the Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS) in Brussels, where he applies R and Python programming to conduct research on the European Union. First open data sets can soon be found here: https://trigger-project.eu/.
Moritz is privately running the European Elections Stats project, which provided a seat projection and an Open Data Hub for the European Elections 2019. More open data projects are currently in the works. https://europeanelectionsstats.eu/

Content by Moritz

Case studies
Parsing the European Parliament elections

Come election day, voters are all asked one crucial question: Who are you going to vote for? But behind every vote, there’s plenty more. We took a look at 5 ways that data journalists parsed the 2019 European Parliament election.