Transformers
DSI and Anthropology project aims for largest image-based survey of archeological features and sites in America
Jan. 24, 2023—Vanderbilt’s Steven Wernke, an Associate Professor of Archeology, is working with the Data Science Institute on a project using satellite imagery and deep learning to produce the largest image-based survey of archeological features in all of the Americas. Archaeologists have faced perennial problems of scale and representation, struggling to match the scale of analysis to...
Data Science Institute looking for students for project using AI models to better understand new languages
Jan. 6, 2023—Languages are constantly evolving and adapting to the world around them. Most approaches to learning new languages are rigid and don’t account for colloquialisms and outside influence, especially in the case of low-resource languages such as Hindi. The formal Hindi vocabulary taught by most textbooks is hardly going to help someone trying to discuss a...
Announcing: New Deep Learning Cohort for Fall 2022!
Sep. 8, 2022—Working on a research project and thinking that deep learning could provide a solid approach for your objectives? Using deep learning networks but wish you had more background or context? Trying your best to make it through online resources, but need a bit more consistency and support? Join the Fall 2022 DSI Deep Learning Cohort!...
The Covid-19 Experience: an Analysis of Ideology and Information Spread Through Social Media (DSI-SRP)
Sep. 8, 2022—This DSI-SRP fellowship funded Priya Bhatt to work in the laboratory of Jonathan Metzl in the Department of Medicine, Health, and Society during the summer of 2022. Priya is a junior with a major in Medicine, Health, & Society. In this study, Priya conducted an analyses of social media and political messaging utilizing novel data...
Revolutionizing Learning Engagement through Technology: Talk to Einstein
Mar. 22, 2022—Looking to work with training transformers for revolutionizing learning engagement in the humanities? Read on to learn more about a novel application by Dr. Ole Molvig – assistant professor of History and founder of the Emergent Technology Lab at the Wond’ry! About Talk To Einstein is an experiment in algorithmically generated (or “synthetic”) media based...
AI Summer with the Data Science Institute
Mar. 9, 2022—Have a hard drive full of sequential data like audio, text, images, or even DNA and can’t figure out how to make the most of it? Have an innovative research solution or business objective in mind, but stuck in a quagmire of summarizing your data into a few condensed features? Need broad solutions that cover...
AI Fridays with the Data Science Institute
Feb. 23, 2022— Do you have data you’d like to use, but aren’t quite sure how to make the most of it? Running into issues with your models, data, or analytical approach and spinning your wheels about what to do? Looking for new partnerships with other people using or interested in data science? Join us Fridays from 11am-3pm...
AI Transformer Intensive Jan. 4-7 – Virtual!
Dec. 20, 2021—Trying to uncover insights from challenging sequential data like audio, text, images, or even DNA? Do you have these types of information-rich data, but often reduce them into a few summarized data points or keywords? Unsure of what to do with the free text fields in your surveys? Join us January 4th – January 7th...