These are the professional pages of Dr. Marco Spruit. I am a researcher in the Organisation & Information research group of the Institute of Information and Computing Sciences at Utrecht University. I lecture in Data Science & Society and Data Analytics.

As principle investigator in the department's Applied Data Science Lab, my research centres around Adaptive Analytic Systems in an Applied Data Science context. I represent UU in the Data Science Platform Netherlands (DSPN), and have also participated as the Data Science expert member in the interdisciplinary New Science Agenda (NWA) taskforce on Prevention.

I am a research leader in three Horizon2020 projects and two nationally funded projects, and as of Febr 2018, have authored 124 publications including 48 journal papers. My ADS research team currently consists of 12 Ph.D students and 1 postdoc. I have successfully completed 2 Ph.D projects as daily supervisor. I serve on the editorial boards of the international journals on Semantic Web and Information Systems, Computer Information Systems, Decision Analytics, Business Intelligence Research, and Big Data and Analytics in Healthcare, among others. I am also associate editor in the Health Informatics tracks at the two premier conferences on Information Systems (ICIS and ECIS).

In my research theme Adaptive Analytic Systems I investigate intertwining aspects of the three dual phases of the Knowledge Discovery Process with a solution-oriented Design Science Research approach within an Applied Data Science context. Spruit & Jagesar (2016) define the emerging research field of Applied Data Science—based on Pritzker & May’s (2015) Data Science Venn-diagramme—as "the knowledge discovery process in which analytical applications are designed and evaluated to improve the daily practices of domain experts". I am particularly interested in Meta-Algorithmic Modelling solutions with respect to three key dilemmas in data science: depth vs breadth, selection vs configuration, and accuracy vs transparency.

Before 2007 I worked in industry for fourteen years as a Big Text Analytics engineer at ZyLAB Europe and the Intelligence Service, among others.