Sebastian Drost, Autor auf Blog

KomMonitor’s Role in Poverty Reduction

May 6, 2025 by Sebastian Drost Leave a Comment

Filed Under: 52°North, Communities, KomMonitor Tagged With: Armutsbekämpfung, KomMonitor, MAGS NRW, municipal planning, poverty reduction, social planning

Poverty has a negative impact on a society in a number of ways: reduced educational opportunities for young people, social exclusion, poorer quality of life, higher health costs and lower life expectancy are just some of the direct social consequences. The North Rhine-Westphalia state government has therefore made it its mission to combat the consequences of poverty in a targeted manner and to create the conditions for preventing poverty and exclusion as far as possible in the first place. In order to support this financially, the State Parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia has provided the Ministry of Labor, Health and Social Affairs of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia (MAGS NRW) with additional funds for 2025 to implement “measures to combat poverty and promote social cohesion”.

more >

Hydrological time series forecasting with Neural Networks

April 20, 2022 by Sebastian Drost 2 Comments

Filed Under: 52°North, Deep Learning, Geostatistics Tagged With: Deep Learning, hydrology, Neural Networks, Time series forecasting

Bochum students explore deep learning techniques for rainfall runoff predictions

In recent years, the applicability of Machine Learning approaches for hydrological use cases has reached great attendance. Especially long short-term memory (LSTM) networks show comparable results to conceptual models when being applied to hydrological time series forecasting problems. Now, Interdisciplinary students from Bochum explored innovative deep learning techniques for rainfall-runoff modeling.

more >

Networking and workshop event for the KomMonitor community

KomMonitor users and developers met and discussed