Sebastian Sauer

Professor for Computational Cognitive Sciences

University of Applied Sciences Ansbach

Biography

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Sebastian Sauer is a professor with a focus on cognitive psychology and data science at the University of Applied Sciences Ansbach. His research interests include applying machine learning to social science questions, didactics of statistics, mindfulness, and social media analysis. He thinks that science is obligated to truth and the social good. And in particular, each scientist is also citizen and should strive to defend and support basic ethical principles. For the moment, this includes lending a voice to the cause of Ukraine in her struggle to fight off the Russian invasion 🇺🇦.

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Interests

• Applied Machine Learning
• Social Media Analysis
• Mindfulness
• Didactics of Statistics

Education

• habilitation in Psychology (item response theory modeling), 2014

  University of Koblenz-Landau

• PhD in Psychology (mindfulness), 2009

  University of Koblenz-Landau

• MSc and BSc in Psychology, 2005

  University of Koblenz-Landau

Skills

R

90%

Statistics

90%

Psychology

80%

Recent Publications

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Jeremy Howick, Despina Koletsi, John P A Ioannidis, Claire Madigan, Nikolaos Pandis, Martin Loef, Harald Walach, Sebastian Sauer, Jos Kleijnen, Jadbinder Seehra, Tess Johnson, Stefan Schmidt (2022). Most healthcare interventions tested in Cochrane Reviews are not effective according to high quality evidence: a systematic review and meta-analysis. In Journal of Clinical Epidemiology.

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Michael P. Menden, Dennis Wang, Mike J. Mason, Bence Szalai, Krishna C. Bulusu, Yuanfang Guan, Thomas Yu, Jaewoo Kang, Minji Jeon, Russ Wolfinger, Tin Nguyen, Mikhail Zaslavskiy, AstraZeneca-Sanger Drug Combination DREAM Consortium, In Sock Jang, Zara Ghazoui, Mehmet Eren Ahsen, Robert Vogel, Elias Chaibub Neto, Thea Norman, Eric K. Y. Tang, Mathew J. Garnett, Giovanni Y. Di Veroli, Stephen Fawell, Gustavo Stolovitzky, Justin Guinney, Jonathan R. Dry, Julio Saez-Rodriguez (2019). Most healthcare interventions tested in Cochrane Reviews are not effective according to high quality evidence: a systematic review and meta-analysis. In Nature Communications.

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Ricardo Buettner, Sebastian Sauer, Christian Maier, Andreas Eckhardt (2018). Real-time Prediction of User Performance based on Pupillary Assessment via Eye Tracking. In AIS Transactions on Human-Computer Interaction.

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eBooks

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Bayes:Start

Introduction to Bayes Inference (German)

Jan 1, 2024

Code Video

Forschungsprojekt in Psychologie

Forschungsprojekt (Research Project, German)

Mar 1, 2023

Code Video

Hinweisbuch

Hinweisbuch: Hinweise zu Prüfungen und Unterricht bei Prof. Sebastian Sauer

Mar 1, 2023

Code

Statistik1

Statistik1: Die Grundlagen der Statistik mit einem Schwerpunkt auf Modellierung

Mar 1, 2023

PDF Code Slides

Data Science 2

Introdction to Machine Learning using R/Tidymodels (German)

Oct 1, 2022

Code Slides Video

Datenwerk

Compilations of exercises related to data analysis, statistics, and similar topics (German)

Jul 15, 2022

Code Video

Data Science 1

Introdction to Machine Learning using R/Tidymodels (German)

Mar 15, 2022

Code Video

Courseware

Materials for courses and teaching

Start:Bayes!

Introduction to Bayes Inference (2021 edition)

Oct 1, 2022

Code Slides Video

Stats Nutshell

Statistics in a nutshell: Introduction to Statistical Modelling

Aug 1, 2022

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Forschungspraktikum in Psychologie (2022 edition)

Learning early research in Psychology (German)

Mar 1, 2022

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R-Blitzkurs

R-Blitzkurs (German)

Oct 1, 2021

Code Slides Video

Vorhersagemodellierung (2021)

Introduction to practical regression modelling (German)

Mar 1, 2021

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Wie man Umfragen auswertet

Introduction to the analysis of survey data (German)

Jan 1, 2021

PDF Code

Videosammlung

YouTube channel with various videos related to data analysis (German)

Oct 1, 2020

Video

Handson data exploration with the R/tidyverse

Workshop on data exploration using the R/tidyverse

Nov 21, 2018

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Textbausteine zur Korrektur

Compilation of text snippets for evaluating student thesises (German)

Jan 1, 2018

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Case studies

Case studies on data analysis, in German and English, mostly related to introductory statistics courses I taught

Jan 1, 0001

To my students

information on my teaching

Hinweise für Studentis

Hinweise für Prüfungen und Studentis (für Studentis) zum Unterricht bei Prof. Sebastian Sauer.

Jan 1, 2024

Sprechstunden-Termin buchen (für Studentis)

Sprechstunden-Termin buchen (für Studentis)

Oct 1, 2023

Projects

Stuff that interests me

Covid ICU

Analysis related to Covid 19 severity in patients at an ICU

Mar 1, 2022

Code

What are the predictors of the party success of the Alternative fuer Deutschland (AfD) in the 2021 German federal elections?

Analyse des Wahlerfolgs der AfD bei der BTW 21 als methodisches Tutorial

Mar 1, 2022

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Xaringan Template for the FOM University

Xaringan Template for the FOM University

Mar 1, 2022

Code

How populist are the tweets of German politicians? (Wie populistisch tweeten unsere Politiker?)

How populist are the tweets of German politicians?

Oct 1, 2017

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Talks

Recent presentations

Warum Sie nicht (nur) auf Basis von Daten entscheiden sollten"

Data alone does not allow to draw causal conclusions and decisions. In order to decide on which action to take, causal knowledge is mandatory.

Jan 21, 2024

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Maschinelles Lernen ohne Programmieren - Ein sanfter Einstieg in die KI

Talk presented at Ankit Ansbach Hier geht's zum Talk "Maschinelles Lernen ohne Programmieren - Ein sanfter Einstieg in die KI"

Sep 15, 2023

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Acting Data-Driven - But How?

More emphasis should be put on the mapping and link between subject matter knowledge and data modeling to avoid drowning in the data

Sep 15, 2022

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Intro to Causality 2: How to interpret observational studies causally

How to interpret observational studies causally

Oct 8, 2021

Slides

The quantitative method in the sciences

My brain is not meant for facts, is it?

Jun 25, 2021

PDF

Intro to causality 1: Any use for statistics?

Why most published research findings are of little use for business decisions

Jul 1, 2020

Slides

Populism among German politicians - A Twitter Mining approach

A comparison of populism of German politicians and parties based on Twitter data

Sep 1, 2018

PDF Code Slides

Predictors of AfD party success

A Bayesian modeling approach
of the 2017 German federal elections

Sep 1, 2018

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Performanz in Echtzeit vorhersagen auf Basis von Pupillendaten

Performanz in Echtzeit vorhersagen - Eine Beobachtungsstudie auf Basis der Pupillen-Dilatation

Oct 1, 2017

Slides

Das Böse.
Psychologie eines Phänomens.

Warum tun Mensches Böses? Liegt es an der Persönlichkeit? Am Umfeld? Aus Unachtsamkeit? Der Vortrag stellt gängige Hypothesen dazu vor

May 1, 2017

Slides

Reproducible paper writing: Some practical recommendations

Abstract Reproducible Paper Writing Scientific publications should both announce a result and convince readers that the result is correct (Mesirov, 2010). Reproducibility refers to methods which help the reader to convince themselves by own means that a given result is plausible, at least.

Oct 1, 2016

Code Slides

Reviewing rapid prototype candidates for data-driven projects

Rapid prototyping project candidates for data-driven projects

Jan 1, 0001

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Software

mostly R

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All Deep Learning Other

R-package pradadata

Collection of diverse data set for free use

Oct 1, 2020

Code

R-package teachertools

R tools for teachers including grading, writing exercises and course materials

Oct 1, 2020

R-package prada

pR package for for practical data analysis

Jan 1, 2019

Code

Featured Publications

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Jeremy Howick, Despina Koletsi, John P A Ioannidis, Claire Madigan, Nikolaos Pandis, Martin Loef, Harald Walach, Sebastian Sauer, Jos Kleijnen, Jadbinder Seehra, Tess Johnson, Stefan Schmidt

August, 2022 In Journal of Clinical Epidemiology

Most healthcare interventions tested in Cochrane Reviews are not effective according to high quality evidence: a systematic review and meta-analysis

In this large sample of 1,567 interventions studied within Cochrane reviews, effects of most interventions (94%) interventions were not supported by high-quality evidence.

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Michael P. Menden, Dennis Wang, Mike J. Mason, Bence Szalai, Krishna C. Bulusu, Yuanfang Guan, Thomas Yu, Jaewoo Kang, Minji Jeon, Russ Wolfinger, Tin Nguyen, Mikhail Zaslavskiy, AstraZeneca-Sanger Drug Combination DREAM Consortium, In Sock Jang, Zara Ghazoui, Mehmet Eren Ahsen, Robert Vogel, Elias Chaibub Neto, Thea Norman, Eric K. Y. Tang, Mathew J. Garnett, Giovanni Y. Di Veroli, Stephen Fawell, Gustavo Stolovitzky, Justin Guinney, Jonathan R. Dry, Julio Saez-Rodriguez

June, 2019 In Nature Communications

Most healthcare interventions tested in Cochrane Reviews are not effective according to high quality evidence: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Here we report AstraZeneca’s large drug combination dataset, consisting of 11,576 experiments from 910 combinations across 85 molecularly characterized cancer cell lines, and results of a DREAM Challenge to evaluate computational strategies for predicting synergistic drug pairs and biomarkers. 160 teams participated to provide a comprehensive methodological development and benchmarking. Winning methods incorporate prior knowledge of drug-target interactions.

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Ricardo Buettner, Sebastian Sauer, Christian Maier, Andreas Eckhardt

March, 2018 In AIS Transactions on Human-Computer Interaction

Real-time Prediction of User Performance based on Pupillary Assessment via Eye Tracking

In this large sample of 1,567 interventions studied within Cochrane reviews, effects of most interventions (94%) interventions were not supported by high-quality evidence.

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Experience

 

 

 

 

 

Research Professor, head of field of study in Business Psychology

Ansbach University

Oct 2020 – Present Ansbach

Responsibilities include:

• Co-ordinating the field of study
• Member of AI research cluster
• Teaching

 

 

 

 

 

Research Professor, Director of the Institute of Business Psychology

FOM University

Apr 2014 – Sep 2020 Munich

Heading the research institute of business psychology

 

 

 

 

 

Department head, knowledge management

MDK Bayern

Nov 2011 – Mar 2014 Munich

Heading the knowledge management team

 

 

 

 

 

Post-Doc

Munich University (LMU)

May 2009 – Oct 2011 Munich

Research on psychometrics and human-computer-interface

 

 

 

 

 

Consultat, post-merger integration

Wilis Towers Watson and self-employed

Oct 2005 – Apr 2009 Munich

organizational development and cultural transformation

Popular Topics

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• sebastiansauer1@gmail.com
• Residenzstr. 10, Ansbach, Bavaria 91522
• Drive to Retti Campus (Rettistr.) and park there