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Past Fall 2023 Workshops
Analytics for All with AI
September 20, 1:00 – 2:00 pm (Virtual)
Generative AI is a revolutionary tool–Code interpreters supercharges it, allowing the AI to build tools for you on the fly to solve complex problems. Think of it as your personal assistant who understands your problems, and can quickly program useful solutions in Python for you behind the scenes to provide accurate answers in a reproducible way that can be validated.
Learning with Your Personal AI Tutor (that is slightly delusional)
September 6, 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm (Virtual)
One of the best uses of Generative AI is as a learning tool. Imagine having a tutor who knows what your background is, and will patiently explain concepts to you in any way you like–for example, using concrete examples or analogies; can whip up quizzes based on your study materials to help you self-test; can assess and make suggestions for your writing; can review your PowerPoint presentations, and suggest what tough questions you’ll face… We’ll cover the prompts, approaches, and tools that unlock these capabilities and more.
AI Best Practices: Ethics and Security for Faculty
August 31, 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm (Virtual)
Generative AI provides powerful tools that no previous generation has ever had. It also poses challenging ethical, security, and legal problems. We’ll cover best practices, and discuss the implications of using and misusing generative AI.
Introduction to ChatGPT and Prompt Engineering
August 30, 11:30 am – 1:00 pm (Virtual)
This workshop will introduce faculty to ChatGPT and its computational capabilities that can be used in teaching, research, and personal productivity. The workshop will provide an initial overview of “prompt engineering”, which is the discipline of crafting the statements, called prompts, that are sent to ChatGPT. Approximately half the time will be allocated to presentation and the other half to interactive discussion and examples.
AI Best Practices: Ethics and Security for Students
August 30, 1:00 – 2:00 PM (Virtual)
Generative AI provides powerful tools that no previous generation has ever had. It also poses challenging ethical, security, and legal problems. We’ll cover best practices, and discuss the implications of using and misusing generative AI.
Fall 2023 DSI Projects Information Session
August 28, 1:00 – 2:00 PM (Virtual)
The Data Science Institute Data Science Team will be looking for undergraduate and graduate students to join us as team members on projects in the Fall semester. Learn about upcoming projects including:
Future of Free Speech
Future of Learning
Gravity Waves
Plain Language Project
We hope to see you at the virtual information session, which will be held on August 28th from 1:00 – 2:00 pm, to learn about these fall semester projects!
Audience: Graduate and Undergraduate Students
Summer 2023 Workshops
ChatGPT and the Future of Education workshop
August 2, 11:30 am – 1:00 pm (Virtual)
This workshop will explore the educational impacts of ChatGPT and its computational capabilities. A significant emphasis will be placed on understanding: 1) how to design assignments that account for ChatGPT, 2) innovative ways of using ChatGPT for teaching, and 3) communicating about appropriate usage with students. Approximately half the time will be allocated to presentation and the other half to interactive discussion and examples.
Introduction to ChatGPT & Prompt Engineering workshop
July 27, 11:30 am – 1:00 pm (Virtual)
This workshop will introduce faculty to ChatGPT and its computational capabilities, which can be used in teaching, research, and personal productivity. The workshop will provide an initial overview of “prompt engineering”, which is the discipline of crafting the statements, called prompts, that are sent to ChatGPT. Approximately half the time will be allocated to presentation and the other half to interactive discussion and examples.
AI Summer Optional workshop, May 22,
Monday/Wednesday/Friday, 9:00 am – 12:00 pm
The Data Science Institute hosted an optional workshop on May 22 for our AI Summer participants in which we discussed the algorithms and architectures that make transformer models possible.
During the workshop, the Data Science Team discusses the influential paper “Formal Algorithms for Transformers” by Mary Phuong and Marcus Hutter. You can access the paper here. We recommend reading through the paper, paying particular attention to the introductory sections. Some notation may be unfamiliar, but you can leverage the power of ChatGPT, GPT4, BingChat, Claude, or Bard to help explain any complex concepts that may arise.
AI Summer (virtual), may 8 to June 2,
Monday/Wednesday/Friday, 9:00 am – 12:00 pm
The Data Science Institute’s AI Summer workshop, from May 8 to June 2, is a free course designed to help researchers, educators, and students gain a deep understanding of the latest AI technologies and techniques, specifically deep learning and transformers, and how they can be used to solve a variety of problems.
The four-week workshop will be virtual on Zoom, and it will include both theoretical and practical sessions. The course will start with a week-long focus on Python for Transformers, followed by a more in-depth AI Deep Dive in the second and third weeks. The workshop has limited capacity, and priority will be given to researchers and educators who have a research goal in mind, as well as students who are interested in joining the researchers and educators on projects that arise from these workshops.
Registration
Registration for this workshop is closed. You can view the playlist of each of our AI Summer workshops on our YouTube page.
Spring 2023 Workshops
Using ChatGPT through Prompt Engineering (virtual), Wednesday, March 22, 4:00 – 5:00 pm
ChatGPT and other AI models mark a groundbreaking step forward in artificial intelligence. These tools can be a valuable tool for your teaching and research, if you can master how to use them with Prompt Engineering. Vanderbilt University’s Data Science Institute is hosting a hands-on workshop on how to work with these models, and the types of prompts you can use solve problems and build solutions in you teaching and research.
Registration
Registration for this workshop is closed. You can view the workshop on our YouTube page.
Stable diffusion models have been shown to have incredible success generating realistic images. Models like DALL-E have shown the power to generate brand-new photo-realistic scenes, in addition to mimicking and transferring an art style onto existing photos. These models can be used in a variety of ways and experimentation with them can be easy. However, getting the image you’re looking for requires a careful selection of the input prompt and an understanding of the parameters of stable diffusion models.
The Data Science Institute is offering a chance to go in-depth on prompt engineering at a workshop open to the Vanderbilt community. Understanding Text-to-Image Models: Dall-E, Stable Diffusion, and more will be held from noon to 1p.m. on February 27.
Registration
Registration for this workshop is closed. You can view the workshop on our YouTube page.
Understanding ChatGPT Info Session,
Monday, Feb. 20
ChatGPT marks a groundbreaking step forward in artificial intelligence beyond the impressive technology, the program is generating controversy and conversation about its impact on academia.
Vanderbilt University’s Data Science Institute is hosting a lunchtime information session entitled Understanding ChatGPT from 12:00 pm to 1:30 pm on Monday, Feb. 20th, in Alumni Hall, Room 202.
The planned itinerary for the info session is as follows: (1). An introduction to Chat GPT (2). Underpinnings of ChatGPT: Strengths and Weaknesses (3). Current and Future Applications for Teaching and Research and (4). Getting the Most Out of ChatGPT.
Registration
Registration for this workshop has ended.
Fall 2022 Workshops
This year, the DSI is offering two series of workshops; The Knowledge series – which will cover critical concepts and skills in Data Science and AI, covering state-of-the-art Transformer Models, Ethics, Reproducibility and Essential DS and AI tools, and the Skills Series – which will cover skills and tools essential for Data Science and AI projects, covering concepts in Agile workflows and GitHub. For more information and to register to attend, please visit the attached form here.
Workshops take place in Classroom 2001A of the Sony Building located at 1400 18th Avenue South.
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Summer 2021 Workshops
Spring 2021 Workshops
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