I’ve been offline for around three months, some kind of mini-sabbatical due to having too many leftover vacation days. That made for a nice work vacation around Trondheim, seeing the hills or mountains around there. The linked tracks are just a few of the recorded ones. Throughout the week I was working at NTNU-IDI, which is more or less the best location to work at I’ve seen so far. The folks around there are friendly, I made contact with some Norwegians and I just loved being there.

I gave an invited talk on August 13th at IDI, which provided me with another chance to talk about my PhD thesis and its two major contributions. Overall, the underlying issue that I’m going to tackle is the specialty of the spatial data I have. It’s partly an experience of „what’s special about spatial data mining?“
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