Maurits Kaptein

Maurits Kaptein

Dr. Maurits Kaptein is an assistant professor of statistics at Tilburg University. Previously, Maurits was a researcher at the University of Eindhoven and the Aalto School of Business, and a visiting scholar at Stanford University. Maurits explores statistical methods for content personalization. His work has been published in leading journals such as Behavior Research Methods, Bayesian Analysis, and the Journal of Interactive Marketing.

What are algorithms, how do they decide what we see and what we don’t see online?

What we see in our news feeds isn’t always the truth. In fact, it’s usually decided by a sequence of actions that for many of us remain a mystery: the algorithm. What are algorithms, how do they decide what we see and what we don’t see online,...