Digital Research Methods In this course we explore the digital realm that is applied to humanities. We get familiar with the practical side of digital humanities – from creating and obtaining digital datasets to hands-on exercises using various digital methods…
Computational Methods in Research on Social, Political, and Economic Issues The course examines the ongoing computational turn in social, political, and economic sciences. Doctoral level
Digital humanities and social sciences The course introduces a number of current digital methodologies for different types of Humanities- and Social sciences research, suitable for PhD level research. Doctoral level
Fine-tuning Large Language Models (LLM) This course provides a detailed exploration into the practical application, ethical considerations, and open-source landscape of fine-tuning large language models (LLMs) for students with basic programming skills. Bachelor’s level; Master’s level
Information Search and Generation with Large Language Models Information retrieval, matching and generation, large language models, query construction and prompt engineering techniques, retrieval-augmented generation, collaborative topic creation and fine-tuning, evaluating information retrieval and generation. Bachelor’s level; Master’s level
Brown Bag Seminar Organised by the Methodological Unit at the Helsinki Institute for Social Science and Humanities (HSSH). The idea of the meetings is to introduce methodological innovations and cutting-edge research in various disciplines in an easily accessible manner and…
Research Data Management handbooks A collection of open access digital handbooks for research data management for SSH fields edited by the Helsinki Institute for Social Sciences and Humanities in Spring/Autumn 2024. The five guides cover: Texts, register data, surveys, social…
Helsinki digital humanities hackathon (DHH) The Helsinki Digital Humanities Hackathon is a chance to experience an interdisciplinary research project from start to finish within the span of 10 days. For researchers and students from computer science and data science, the…
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