Data science and finance are related in many ways: from Financial Shared Services to government finance statistics and taxpayers’ supervision. Speakers from Leiden University, CBS and Belastingdienst elaborated on these topics during the LCDS meeting Big Data & Finance on 26 October 2016.

The presentations can be downloaded here:

• The Tax System as a Complex Adaptive System

  Rex Arendsen (Extraordinary Professor of Societal and Historical Context of Tax Law, Leiden University)

• Data Science in Practice: Current Challenges, Future Opportunities - Building and implementing models in a tax authority

  Emma Gottesman (Lead Data Scientist, Belastingdienst)

• Continuous Improvement with help of Data Analytics

  Rob van den Wijngaard (Manager Financial Shared Service Centre, Leiden University)

• Applying Analytics for Improved Taxpayer Supervision

  Mark Pijnenburg (Data Scientist, Belastingdienst)

• Government finance statistics 2.0: challenges for data scientists?

  Floris Jansen (Economist, Centraal Bureau voor de Statistiek)

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