University of Helsinki
Visit websiteThe University of Helsinki DARIAH node is distributed in diverse units in the city centre campus, with ample methodological expertise and curriculum development in digital humanities and social data science.
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Affiliated Groups
The Centre for Social Data Science (CSDS) cultivates data-intensive quantitative methods for a social-science-anchored response to the datafication and digitalisation of society. CSDS aims to provide comprehensive and methods-focused teaching for students in the Contemporary Societies (COS) Masters Programme. The centre engages in collaborative research projects in fields such as, demography, sociology, and social policy to improve applied research methods, and propel such work into the future through suitable, robust, and ethical research infrastructure.
Helsinki Computational History Group (COMHIS) is an interdisciplinary team that studies intellectual history. The work in the group is guided by methods from various different backgrounds ranging from modern data science and machine learning to history and linguistics.
The institute is building a research culture that creates new multidisciplinary and inspiring research collaboration on the City Centre Campus and with partners outside the university. It promotes the renewal of content and methodology in the research fields in social sciences and humanities.
The research group seeks to figure out the technological, processual and theoretical underpinnings of successful computational research in the humanities and social sciences.
Tools
Digital Humanities and Social Sciences video library
A collection of educational videos created for the course “Introduction to Digital Humanities and Social Sciences” at University of Helsinki. Ongoing since 2022, the video library is fit for wider public use, published with CC BY license on the University of Helsinki Unitube platform.
Finnish Forum Scrapers
An application for scraping comment-data from Finnish resources with high user traffic.
Contact: Matti Nelimarkka
Finnsurveytext
This resource provides a set of easy-to-use tools for conducting qualitative analysis on survey responses in Finnish. Thanks to this resource, researchers will be able to better understand data retrieved from open-ended questions.
Contact: Krista Lagus
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 media, as well as audiovisual recordings.
Contact: Jouni Tuominen
Tool to evaluate biases and errors
This resource provides tools for subsetting and evaluating datasets that have not originally been created for research. Researchers will be able to robustly explore large datasets, examine their representativeness, and extract the subset they are interested in. Resource developed by the University of Helsinki (ARTS) in partnership with the CSC.
Contact: Eetu Mäkelä
In collaboration with: CSC
Trainings
This website hosts the learning materials for a massive open online course (MOOC) created by the University of Helsinki. The MOOC is intended to provide an introduction to applied language technology for audiences who are unfamiliar with language technology and programming.
Weekly methodological discussions organised every Wednesday by 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 have an interdisciplinary discussion in an easy-going atmosphere over lunch. The seminars are open to everybody. We expect a multidisciplinary and methodologically curious audience from different faculties and units of the central campus. The language of the meetings can be Finnish or English. Bring your own lunch, we bring fresh methodological topics!
Digital Humanities Early-Career Välipala is a regular event for early career humanities and social sciences researchers. It offers a free form opportunity to discuss and share experiences of digital methods in research. Each session invites researchers with shared interests, and the focus is on sharing digital good practices, stumbling blocks and tricks regarding use of data, tools and analysis methods.
Established in 2015. Offered every year both in the autumn and the spring.
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 hackathon gives the opportunity to test their abstract knowledge against complex real-life problems. For people from the humanities and social sciences, it shows what is possible to achieve with such collaboration. The Hackathon admits a limited number of applicants each Spring, 5 ECTS can be gained by students at the University of Helsinki and other universities.
This is an introductory course that will give you a wide overview of different approaches to digital humanities and social sciences at the University of Helsinki across faculty borders. During the course, students will become familiar with the basic concepts and approaches of digital humanities and social sciences.
An interdisciplinary programme that combines five fields of study: cognitive science, digital humanities, general linguistics, language technology, and phonetics.