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The University of Cambridge Psychometrics Centre is collaborating with the Faculty of Psychology at Beijing Normal University and Microsoft Research Asia to host the Beijing site for the Summer Institutes in Computational Social Science. This intensive 2-week programme from 30 Jun – 12 Jul 2024 is themed “Artificial Intelligence and Social Sciences…

The Psychometrics Centre is pleased to announce the winners of the second Cambridge Creative Writing Competition. Each entraFirst Prize winner (£500):Jess Thomas from CambridgeshireSecond Prize winners (£100 each):Liam EtheridgeCharlotte CrawleyRachel NgaiNicholas ChanTommy Higgins/Jeremy Wang/Rachel Lindsay (sharing the last 2nd Prize)The competit…

Toolkit launched by Highsight Analytics and Psychometrics CentreWhile employee wellbeing has recently vaulted to the forefront of organisational thinking, many firms have yet to implement the measurement practices needed to maximise their wellbeing initiatives. A new “toolkit” launched today (1 December) by Highsight Analytics and the University of…

The 2021 International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Big Data in Education, "AI+Education: Together for Shared Prosperity", was held in Beijing on December 16-18 2021.The conference, jointly organised by Beijing Normal University, The National Center for Educational Technology, China, China Education Association for International Exchan…

The long-anticipated fourth edition of Modern Psychometrics is now available from Routledge.Professor John Rust, Dr Michal Kosinski and Dr David Stillwell from the Psychometrics Centre have expanded on the seminal and highly popular third edition to include more detailed coverage of the most salient topics in psychometrics today. These include arti…

The 2020 International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Big Data in Education was held in Beijing on December 11-12.The conference, jointly organised by The National Center for Educational Technology, China, Beijing Normal University, and iFlytek, was the fourth consecutive annual gathering of experts in psychometrics, educational research…

Professor John Rust will today retire from his post as Director of the University of Cambridge Psychometrics Centre after nearly 30 years at the helm of one of the world’s leading research institutions for the study of psychological assessment.Throughout his career, John has been at the forefront of developments in both pure and applied psychometri…

ApplyMagicSauce.com updated to enable psychological predictions from user-submitted .zip folders containing social media data. No log in required.ApplyMagicSauce.com has played a significant role in raising awareness of online privacy issues since its launch in 2013. The site - which allows users to predict thier psychodemographic profile from digi…

Predictive World was an interactive data visualisation, developed by the Centre for Ubisoft in November 2016. It was built to promote the launch of the Watchdogs 2 video game, in which an innocent protagonist is arrested for a crime he is predicted to commit, by CTOS, a smart city enforcement system.Working with design agency Sid Lee Paris and prod…

In March 2016 The Psychometrics Centre completed its move into the Cambridge Judge Business School. The discussion had been going on behind the scenes for over a year, inspired by the changes in psychological and educational assessment practices brought about by the migration of human assessment to the online environment. The move also marks a reco…

Altmetrics, the world’s leading provider of online impact information, have now published their list of the 100 most popular scientific research articles of 2015. This follows on from our success in 2013 when two of our articles achieved the top 100 position (click here to see).  So – many congratulations to Youyou, Michal and David for yet another…

In September 2015 The Psychometrics Centre at the University of Cambridge hosted the 5th Biennial Conference of the International Society for Computer Adaptive Testing. This was the first time a University has hosted the conference, and so it was a particular honour for us to have been chosen. The Psychometrics Centre’s primary CAT mission is the p…

The DataIQ New Talent Award was awarded to Sandra Matz, Junior Psychometrician and First Year PhD student in the University of Cambridge Psychometrics Centre. Sandra's colleague, Vess Popov, the Centre's Development Strategist, was also a short-listed nominee for the Marketing Technologist category.The award marks a significant step in the evolutio…

In December 2013, the world’s leading provider of online impact information published a list of the 100 most popular scientific research articles of 2013. Thirty nine different journals published papers that made it to the top 100, as did 201 universities worldwide. The most successful university was Harvard, with 12 entries. However Cambridge led …

The myPersonality dataset of over 6,000,000 personality profiles and associated anonimized Facebook data, collected by David Stillwell of The Psychometrics Centre, continues to be a superlative resource for researchers all over the world. In a paper published in October 2013, colleagues both here and in the University of Pennsylvania analysed 700 m…