<aside> 💡 NDSU COMM faculty Lu and Majdik will host the third NDSU-SICSS Summer Institute in Computational Social Science in June of this year. SICSS brings together researchers from the region and across the country for hands-on learning about areas of computational social science: working with APIs, doing social network analysis, deploying sentiment taggers, processing natural language, setting up deep learning architectures, and more. For our inaugural SICSS institute in 2022, NDSU was only one of seven U.S. sites and one of 32 global sites to host a SICSS Summer Institute. The 2024 institute will run in late June, and more information — including a link to the application — will be posted here soon.

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| 03/20/2024 12:30 - 1:15 pm | Deploying Neural Network Models for Image Annotation

• Brief discussion of the Hugging Face model development interface and API
• Foundational multimodal models
• Discussion of the value of automated image annotation in trace data research | | --- | --- | | 04/25/2024 12:30 - 1:15 pm | Using High-Performance Computing at NDSU [for lab-affiliated or interested graduate students]
• Access HPC as a graduate student
• Some basics on the Linux file system
• Using the on-demand access feature | | TBD | Sourcing Digital Trace Data in a Post-Twitter Information Ecosystem
• Discussion of the current state-of-the-art sources for digital trace data
• Sharing best practices for accessing and storing digital trace data
• Discussion of how to build a resilient trace data collection pipeline | | | |