CUDAN Open Lab | @cudanlab.bsky.social

#CUDAN lab @TallinnUni. Multidisciplinary research into cultural interaction, dynamics & evolution via computational methods&big data. Funded by @EU_Commission

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5 Keynotes in #CulturalDataAnalytics
@CUDANLab

Nov 18 @jevinwest & Carl Bergstrom
Nov 25 Vittorio Loreto @loretoff
Dec 2 Miriah Meyer
Dec 9 Alexandra Arkhipova
Dec 16 @iyadrahwan

Details & Zoom links:
https://t.co/ANTCrWhklG

#CulturalAnalytics 🌎🌍🌏

[CUDAN Open Lab | @cudanlab.bsky.social @CUDANLab]

@DirkHelbing @schichmax Here's the program:

5 Keynotes in #CulturalDataAnalytics
@CUDANLab

Nov 18 @jevinwest & Carl Bergstrom
Nov 25 Vittorio Loreto @loretoff
Dec 2 Miriah Meyer
Dec 9 Alexandra Arkhipova
Dec 16 @iyadrahwan

Details & Zoom links: https://t.co/ANTCrWhklG
#CulturalAnalytics 🌎🌍🌏

[CUDAN Open Lab | @cudanlab.bsky.social @CUDANLab]

We're relaunching the
Cultural Data Analytics Open Lab 2024-2027
funded through the @TallinnUni Research fund.

@CUDANLab has moved to the upper third of the picture, above the Horizon. Please join us there!

This is our last Tweet!

[Pepa KRASTEVA 🇪🇺 #InnovationDivide @KrastevaP]

Wrapping up the final review of @CUDANLab project! 📊🎨Exciting to see innovative collaborations bridging data science and cultural insights come to life. Huge commitment to advancing digital cultural research! #CulturalData #OpenLab #Innovation

[CUDAN Open Lab | @cudanlab.bsky.social @CUDANLab]

Longer take...

[Andres Karjus | also on 🟦bsky @AndresKarjus]

Preprint w @CUDANLab ppl @tillmannohm M.Tamm& @schichmax
fruit-SALAD: A Style Aligned Artwork Dataset to reveal similarity perception in image embeddings🍒

SALAD is a novel approach to help eval&compare how #ML models eg #CLIP ViT DINO capture vis similarity, style etc
🧵🔓👇

[Maximilian Schich | @schichmax.bsky.social @schichmax]

🌊🏖️🍹 Summer is upon us
so we got some #fruitSALAD for you
with a healthy dose of #confusion #matrices! 😎

🍇🍓🍎🍊🍍🥑🥝 just in case you need a style/semantic #bias #benchmark for #ML #models.

#CulturalDataAnalytics #Aesthetics #AI

Ohm et al. https://t.co/ZtdKrg6aFH

[Vejune Zemaityte @VejuneZem]

Looking forward to sharing our research about international film festivals using big programming data from Cinando by @mdf_cannes this week! This is collaborative work w @AndresKarjus, @ulrike_rohn, @schichmax & @IndrekIbrus at @TallinnUni, @CUDANLab

[Andres Karjus | also on 🟦bsky @AndresKarjus]

Attending 2 conferences this week: presenting a poster at #DHNB2024 in person in Iceland (where a volcano just erupted) and a talk at the #xPhi2024 virtually, both on using #LLMs in #DH humanities, zero-shot text classification & Lenin detection & why we can forget topicmodeling

[CUDAN Open Lab | @cudanlab.bsky.social @CUDANLab]

Join us on Monday, May 20
@CUDANlab
to listen and discuss with

@matthiasroder
Karajan Institute Managing Director
on "Data, Artificial Intelligence, and Music"
💿🧠🎶

14:00-16:00 Tallinn time
13:00-15:00 Munich
06:00-08:00 Dallas

Details and zoom link:
https://t.co/OawBeAgClg

[Andres Karjus | also on 🟦bsky @AndresKarjus]

Now in @NaturePortfolio's @HSScomms🔓
"A Framework for the Analysis of Historical Newsreels"
by @MilaOiva et al, incl myself. We propose a unified approach to do research on (historical) news&newsreels, incl image, video, text, geo and production crew analysis. The example 1/🧵

[CUDAN Open Lab | @cudanlab.bsky.social @CUDANLab]

Join us today @CUDANlab to listen and discuss with

@profjamesevans
"From Simulated Subjectivity to Collective Consciousness in Large Language Models"

16:00-18:00 Tallinn time
15:00-17:00 Paris time
06:00-08:00 am Seattle time

Details and zoom link:
https://t.co/iU4LskPjXP

[Andres Karjus | also on 🟦bsky @AndresKarjus]

Can societies polarize to the point that ppl literally won't understand each other?
Can partisan divisions lead to language diverging?🤔
Me& @nerdpro explore the 🇺🇸 case using #bigdata+#ML/#AI & tweets of ppl following onesided media
Now in @SpringerNature @HSScomms!
🧵&links⏬

[Vejune Zemaityte @VejuneZem]

🎦!! New paper published in @PlosOne “Quantifying the global #film #festival circuit: #Networks, #diversity, and public value creation” w @AndresKarjus, @ulrike_rohn, @schichmax & @IndrekIbrus at @CUDANLab @MEDIT_BFM @TallinnUni @CresCine_eu
A thread...
https://t.co/uWwgVHJwWV

[Andres Karjus | also on 🟦bsky @AndresKarjus]

New preprint from @CUDANLab! Our PhD student @YAsadchy78970 (w myself, @mukhinaks,@schichmax) mined the entire #Tinder userbase of one country - yes completely ethical &privacy-preserving, don't worry - to study gendered differences in visual selfrepresentation using #ML #AI
🧵⬇️

[Mar Canet Solà @mcanet]

Our paper "Quantifying Collection Lag in European Modern and Contemporary Art Museums" co-authored by @mcanet*, @toninakorep*, @mukhinaks and @schichmax, received the student award for the best research paper of 2023 at @TallinnUni https://t.co/jNTDI8ELBa
*PhD candidate and equal

[Andres Karjus | also on 🟦bsky @AndresKarjus]

I will join the @UNESCO #AiEthics Forum tomorrow as part of the 🇪🇪 delegation. Current&future #AI tech holds exciting opportunities - incl in my own fields (humanities&socsci research; also consultancy&instructing in private sector).
But also challenges&risks that need to be /

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The Estonian culture magazine Sirp covered our recent #CUDAN2023 conference (and the accompanying art exhibition by @martino_design @manovich @mcanet @varvara_g), highlighting its topical diversity and discussing the history of the field:
https://t.co/GnJU9N44Rr

[Ulrike Rohn @ulrike_rohn]

What is the role of cultural data analytics at @TallinnUni? I spoke yesterday at the @CUDANLab conference with Marek Tamm, Daniele Monticelli, @IndrekIbrus and Katrin Niglas - moderated by @schichmax - video https://t.co/fxjI3uUiCQ (start 8:09)

[CUDAN Open Lab | @cudanlab.bsky.social @CUDANLab]

@XLeontyeva Yes, we are also recording and will publish everything on our yt channel

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It is happening!

❄️❄️ ❄️ ❄️ ❄️ ❄️ ❄️
Cultural Data Analytics Conference 2023
#CUDAN2023
❄️❄️ ❄️ ❄️ ❄️ ❄️ ❄️

Live stream & detailed program:
https://t.co/COxv0pxeLM

Dec 14-16, Tallinn, Estonia