Healthy Friction in Job Recommender Systems

Data Skeptic by Kyle Polich

Feb 2, 202626:37Religion & Spirituality

In this episode, host Kyle Polich speaks with Roan Schellingerhout, a fourth-year PhD student at Maastricht University, about explainable multi-stakeholder recommender systems for job recruitment. Roan discusses his rese...

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