Linus Dietz

Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Computer Science Education

Recent Posts

Understanding the Potential of Urban Parks to Promote Well-being

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Urban parks are vital public health assets, providing citizens to recreate, socialize, and perform their hobbies. However, their health benefits are rarely understood through the range of activities they support. A King’s College London and Nokia Bell Labs study published in Nature Cities, investigates parks’ qualities in a global analysis of more than 23,000 parks in 35 cities on five continents. The study assesses how well parks support health-promoting activities and where they fall short...

Final Year Data Science Projects 2025/26

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This academic year, I am offering a range of final-year projects for MSc Data Science students at King’s College London. The topics are motivated by current research in urban computing and data governance.

Automating Data Governance with Generative AI

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Organizations now manage complex data systems, and meeting privacy laws such as the GDPR has become both vital and expensive. We examined how large language models (LLMs) can support data governance by generating warnings about data access decisions in decentralized data systems.

Understanding the Influence of Data Characteristics on the Performance of Point-of-Interest Recommendation Algorithms

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Point-of-interest (POI) recommendations are essential for travelers and the e-tourism business. They assist in decision-making regarding what venues to visit and where to dine and stay. While it is known that traditional recommendation algorithms’ performance depends on data characteristics like sparsity, popularity bias, and preference distributions, the impact of these data characteristics has not been systematically studied in the POI recommendation domain. To fill this gap, we extend a pr...

First Workshop on Urban Recommender Systems

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As we witness an ongoing centralization of the population towards urban landscapes, recommendation technology has an increasing role in people’s perception and decision-making in cities. People use recommender systems for choosing places to stay, which attractions and restaurants to visit, and route recommender systems for navigation. This workshop aims to bring together practitioners and academics working on improving recommendations in the urban space with an emphasis on both individual nee...

Data-driven Destination Recommender Systems

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This thesis explores various aspects of the destination recommendation domain, namely mobility analyses about which types of travelers can be observed in location-based social media data, how these groups perform in point-of-interest recommendation, how long travelers should stay at a destination, and which data sources are suitable to characterize destinations. Finally, we propose a city recommender system that supports users making the trade-offs involved in their travel choices.

Survey on Feature Usage in JabRef

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If you are using JabRef as your bibliography manager, please consider participating in a user survey about yur usage of JabRef’s features.

Java by Comparison

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I am very happy to announce the release of ‘Java by Comparison’ by Simon Harrer, Jörg Lenhard and myself published at the Pragmatic Bookshelf.

Hello world, reloaded!

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After a technical downtime of shutting down my old server last December, I have finally set up a new homepage again.