The arrival of ChatGPT has sparked lively debate about how generative AI will impact universities like ours and society at large. Penn faculty have been at the forefront of tracking the impact of AI across diverse fields including the sciences, technology, media and business. We are at a potentially transformative moment in the use of AI, with tantalizing opportunities and challenges ahead. Please join us for a panel discussion hosted by Penn’s Data Driven Discovery Initiative on “Human Centered AI: Where is ChatGPT and Generative AI Headed?” The event will take place on Thursday, Feb 23 at 4pm in the Orrery Pavilion (6th floor of Van Pelt Library)
A recording of this event can be viewed here.
LOVE data is an international celebration of all things data that takes place during the week of Valentine’s Day. Each year, institutions and schools such as University of Michigan, Harvard, and Brown put on data events for the public and Penn is no exception. On Friday, Feb 17th, Data Driven Discovery Initiative is teaming up with Penn Libraries’ Research Data & Digital Scholarship to celebrate our love of data related to the environment. The event will feature a keynote talk by Dr. Eduardo Mercado on how analyzing whale songs can reveal insights about our ecosystem, a panel discussion with the Water Center and True Elements on urban water use data, a tutorial on obtaining/visualizing renewable energy data, and a walk in the Woodlands to collect visceral data. For more information, check out our LOVE Environment Data Day page.
Time: Friday, Feb 17th from 9:30 AM – 4:30 PM
Location: Class of ’78 Orrery Pavilion (Van Pelt-Dietrich Library – 6th Floor)
The new Amy Gutmann Hall is set to be completed in 2024 and will be a central location for data science training and research across disciplines. This article highlights the current plans. Initial construction was announced in 2019, upon receiving a $25 million gift to support the data science building.
Organized by DevLab@Penn/PDRI and co-sponsored by Perry World House, USAID’s Center for Democracy, Human Rights and Governance, USAID’s Innovation, Technology, and Research (ITR) Hub and Penn SAS’ Data Driven Discovery Initiative, this event will convene an excellent group of academics and practitioners to discuss the current state of big data and machine learning in the development sector. While the earlier conference provided a broad overview of topics, the goal of this conference is to dig more deeply into four issues of crucial importance to both the research and practitioner communities:
- The use of computational tools to detect corruption and provide a tool for accountability
- The use of big data from media to measure civic activity, political polarization and disinformation
- The use of large-scale, micro-level data and computational tools to study the causes, dynamics, and consequences of conflict
- The use of social media data to monitor and respond to humanitarian crises
The Big Data for Development and Governance Event will be held on October 20 & 21, 2022 at the Perelman Center for Political Science & Economics. In recognition that many development organizations and researchers are currently developing tools and techniques to work with big data, the first half-day of the conference will include workshop sessions on working with social media data, running digital experiments and training natural language processing models; these sessions will target technically-minded participants, but not those already proficient in such techniques. The second day will focus on the presentation of research on, and discussion of, the four key topics noted above. Full detailed two-day agenda and list of panelists can be viewed here.
To register for the event, RSVP to Diego Romero (djrom18@sas.upenn.edu) by Oct 17, 2022
The Population Studies Center and DDDI will be co-sponsoring an event hosted by the Methodology Working Group on available data in the Philadelphia Federal Statistical Research Center (FSRDC), how to prepare a proposal to access the data, as well as the process of becoming a Special Sworn Status researcher. This talk will be particularly relevant to researchers interested in using data collected by the US Census Bureau and will be presented by Jeffery Lin (FSRDC Co-director) and Joe Ballegeer (FSRDC Administrator).
The presentation will take place on Wednesday, Oct 12 at 10:30am in McNeil 367.
