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Join the Research Data & Digital Scholarship librarians on Feb. 27th for the second session in a series of interdisciplinary events with speakers, discussions, and hands-on projects centered around the basic concepts, applications, and societal implications of generative AI.

DDDI honors Penn graduate students Shriya Ramakrishnan, Manvi Kaul, Emma Jin, and Zahra Khodakarami with the Generative AI for Social Good Award for their Gen AI hackathon project, a personal AI assistant for the estimated 17 million people living with cerebral palsy.

Join the Research Data & Digital Scholarship librarians for a series of interdisciplinary events with speakers, discussions, and hands-on projects centered around the basic concepts, applications, and societal implications of generative AI. The inaugural panel is February 13th.

Sign up for Penn’s first Generative AI Hackathon! The hackathon is a university-wide two day event (2/16-17) in Tangen Hall for Penn students to learn, build, and create Gen AI based applications. No AI or hackathon experience required. Apply by February 9, 2024 to get involved.

A collaborative workshop taking place at Penn on April 12-13, 2024, to bring together interdisciplinary researchers and practitioners to discuss historical and emergent trajectories of data-driven knowledge production in South Asia. The deadline to submit an abstract is January 31, 2024.

The 10th International Conference on Computational Social Science (IC2S2) is now inviting abstracts and tutorials from scientists working at the frontiers of social, computational, complexity, and network science! DDDI is thrilled to sponsor the IC2S2 conference this summer, July 17-20.

The DDDI, in collaboration with the RDDS, is initiating a Data Scientists at Penn Introductory Event. This event which will bring together practitioners of data science, engineering, and visualization from across the University who often work in isolated clusters on these topics.

DDDI is excited to announce the launch of its new Data Science Careers program in Spring 2024. The new program will help students explore the wide variety of data driven careers that exist across industry, government, and non-governmental organizations.

On November 30th DDDI will host a second panel discussion exploring recent advances in generative AI. What kinds of scientific discoveries will generative AI soon enable? How might tools like ChatGPT change the process of doing science itself? Join our faculty panelists for an exciting discussion on the future of scientific discovery.

The Data Driven Discovery Initiative will hold its very first seminar Friday, November 10th, at noon in the SAIL Room (111 Levin Building), in partnership with MindCORE, and will feature Andrew Hein. Andrew uses modern ML methods to understand collective behaviors in animal groups, integrating lab work, field data, and theory.

This Fall, DDDI is working together with the Research Data & Digital Scholarship librarians to develop two new programs at Penn. The programs will foster student-led data driven projects within the Penn community, and discussions on the potential applications and issues surrounding new advances in generative AI.

DDDI is excited to announce the new Data Science and Analytics minor! The DASA minor offers Penn students a new path to a foundational education in data science that can be tailored to their existing field of study in the natural and social sciences.