Nerd Nite : Data sciences, Telescopes and Search engines !

"Computers are to computer science, what telescopes are to astronomy" - Edsger Dijkstra

A fitting quote for our April talk ! We will enjoy the following presentations, lasting about 20 minutes each and with a break in between (for getting more liquid in your body (...or less, that's aslo a valid break activity)).

🚂🍜Restaurants around train stations are bad and I can prove it!

Does the quality of restaurants degrade with your proximity to a train station? What started as a small personal annoyance in Stuttgart turned into a journey through publicly accessible data to finally prove if busy train stations correlate with lower restaurant ratings - and which towns are actually the worst.

Analyzing the data of over 10,000 restaurants in Germany and worldwide, this talk presents the best and worst dining options available near train stations. It compares urban and rural environments, examines the impact of chain stores, and provide practical advice for any hungry traveller!

A talk by Dennis Schulz, Senior Consultant at TNG Technology Consulting. He holds a PhD in low temperature physics from the University of Heidelberg. Besides being a software developer, he organized and hosted the TV show Quasi Klar for RNF, published a book that was translated to Korean and Russian, founded the Science Pub Quiz Heidelberg, and won Science Slam competitions all over Germany.

🔭🌠Dust seen from the eyes of a telescope

With the launch of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers can now look deeper into the distant Universe than ever before. This powerful telescope allows us to observe young galaxies as they appeared billions of years ago, capturing light with unmatched sensitivity — far beyond what previous generations of telescopes could detect. In this talk, I’ll show how these new observations are helping us better understand how galaxies grow and evolve. By studying their light, we can estimate how fast they’re forming stars, what elements they contain, and what’s going on inside their vast clouds of gas.

A talk by Diana Ismail, postdoc researcher at the Observatoire Astronomique de Strasbourg. She studies distant galaxies, when the Universe was around 1 Billion years old, and hopes to contribute to the understanding of how early structures evolved to form what we see in today's Universe.

🔍🧠SEO 101: Trying to Hack the Brain Behind Google Search Result Page

Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is essentially the art (and science) of making a website more appealing—not to humans, but to an algorithm that never sleeps. At its core, SEO is about helping search engines understand content, rank it appropriately, and, ideally, present it to the right audience. This session unpacks the key factors influencing rankings—content relevance, keywords, backlinks, and site performance—while exploring how search algorithms evolve and why what worked last year might not work today.

Designed for beginners, this talk provides a practical foundation for navigating the ever-changing world of search rankings, offering insights into what websites can do to stay visible in a crowded digital landscape.

A talk by Mayank Bishwas, who worked for more than seven years in various content related roles across TV, Tech, and Digital Agency.