#CUDAN lab @TallinnUni. Multidisciplinary research into cultural interaction, dynamics & evolution via computational methods&big data. Funded by @EU_Commission
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!
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Wrapping up the final review of @CUDANLab project! ๐๐จExciting to see innovative collaborations bridging data science and cultural insights come to life. Huge commitment to advancing digital cultural research! #CulturalData#OpenLab#Innovation
Preprint w @CUDANLab ppl @tillmannohm M.Tamm& @schichmax
fruit-SALAD: A Style Aligned Artwork Dataset to reveal similarity perception in image embeddings๐
SALAD is a novel approach to help eval&compare how #ML models eg #CLIP ViT DINO capture vis similarity, style etc
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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
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
Join us on Monday, May 20
@CUDANlab
to listen and discuss with
@matthiasroder
Karajan Institute Managing Director
on "Data, Artificial Intelligence, and Music"
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14:00-16:00 Tallinn time
13:00-15:00 Munich
06:00-08:00 Dallas
Details and zoom link:
https://t.co/OawBeAgClg
Now in @NaturePortfolio's @HSScomms๐
"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 1/๐งต
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
Can societies polarize to the point that ppl literally won't understand each other?
Can partisan divisions lead to language diverging?๐ค
Me& @nerdpro explore the ๐บ๐ธ case using #bigdata+#ML/#AI & tweets of ppl following onesided media
Now in @SpringerNature@HSScomms!
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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
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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
I will join the @UNESCO#AiEthics Forum tomorrow as part of the ๐ช๐ช 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 /
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
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)
It is happening!
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Cultural Data Analytics Conference 2023
#CUDAN2023
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Live stream & detailed program:
https://t.co/COxv0pxeLM
Dec 14-16, Tallinn, Estonia