During this week you can download full PDF of my book "Cultural Analytics" (2020) for free. This my contributions for The Cultural Data Analytics Conference 2023 - Talinn, Estonia, December 13-16 #cudan2023 #cultureanalytics #culturalanalytics PDF: zurl.co/dH8V

It is happening! ❄️❄️ ❄️ ❄️ ❄️ ❄️ ❄️ Cultural Data Analytics Conference 2023 #CUDAN2023 ❄️❄️ ❄️ ❄️ ❄️ ❄️ ❄️ Live stream & detailed program: cudan.tlu.ee/conference/ Dec 14-16, Tallinn, Estonia

What is the role of cultural data analytics at @TallinnUni? I spoke yesterday at the CUDAN Open Lab | @cudanlab.bsky.social conference with Marek Tamm, Daniele Monticelli, @IndrekIbrus and Katrin Niglas - moderated by Maximilian Schich | @schichmax.bsky.social - video youtube.com/watch?v=TZAKyr… (start 8:09)

The Estonian culture magazine Sirp covered our recent #CUDAN2023 conference (and the accompanying art exhibition by Mauro Martino manovich Mar Canet Solà varvara guljajeva), highlighting its topical diversity and discussing the history of the field: sirp.ee/s1-artiklid/c6…

I will join the UNESCO 🏛️ #Education #Sciences #Culture 🇺🇳 #AiEthics Forum tomorrow as part of the 🇪🇪 delegation. Current&future #AI tech holds exciting opportunities - incl in my own fields (humanities&socsci research; also consultancy&instructing in private sector). But also challenges&risks that need to be /

Excited about my online lecture at King's College next week! kcl.ac.uk/events/studyin… CUDAN Open Lab | @cudanlab.bsky.social

Our paper "Quantifying Collection Lag in European Modern and Contemporary Art Museums" co-authored by Mar Canet Solà*, Antonina Korepanova*, Ksenia Mukhina and Maximilian Schich | @schichmax.bsky.social, received the student award for the best research paper of 2023 at @TallinnUni dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/36… *PhD candidate and equal

New preprint from CUDAN Open Lab | @cudanlab.bsky.social! Our PhD student @YAsadchy78970 (w myself, Ksenia Mukhina,Maximilian Schich | @schichmax.bsky.social) mined the entire #Tinder userbase of one country - yes completely ethical &privacy-preserving, don't worry - to study gendered differences in visual selfrepresentation using #ML #AI 🧵⬇️

🎦!! New paper published in @PlosOne “Quantifying the global #film #festival circuit: #Networks, #diversity, and public value creation” w Andres Karjus | also on 🟦bsky, Ulrike Rohn, Maximilian Schich | @schichmax.bsky.social & @IndrekIbrus at CUDAN Open Lab | @cudanlab.bsky.social MEDIT @TallinnUni @CresCine_eu A thread... dx.plos.org/10.1371/journa…

Can societies polarize to the point that ppl literally won't understand each other? Can partisan divisions lead to language diverging?🤔 Me& @nerdpro explore the 🇺🇸 case using #bigdata+#ML/#AI & tweets of ppl following onesided media Now in Springer Nature Humanities & Social Sciences Communications! 🧵&links⏬

Join us today @CUDANlab to listen and discuss with James Evans "From Simulated Subjectivity to Collective Consciousness in Large Language Models" 16:00-18:00 Tallinn time 15:00-17:00 Paris time 06:00-08:00 am Seattle time Details and zoom link: cudan.tlu.ee/events/2024-04…

Now in Nature Portfolio's Humanities & Social Sciences Communications🔓 "A Framework for the Analysis of Historical Newsreels" by Mila Oiva et al, incl myself. We propose a unified approach to do research on (historical) news&newsreels, incl image, video, text, geo and production crew analysis. The example 1/🧵

Join us on Monday, May 20 @CUDANlab to listen and discuss with Matthias Röder e/acc Karajan Institute Managing Director on "Data, Artificial Intelligence, and Music" 💿🧠🎶 14:00-16:00 Tallinn time 13:00-15:00 Munich 06:00-08:00 Dallas Details and zoom link: cudan.tlu.ee/events/2024-05…

Attending 2 conferences this week: presenting a poster at #DHNB2024 in person in Iceland (where a volcano just erupted) and a talk at the #xPhi2024 virtually, both on using #LLMs in #DH humanities, zero-shot text classification & Lenin detection & why we can forget topicmodeling

Looking forward to sharing our research about international film festivals using big programming data from Cinando by Marché du Film this week! This is collaborative work w Andres Karjus | also on 🟦bsky, Ulrike Rohn, Maximilian Schich | @schichmax.bsky.social & @IndrekIbrus at @TallinnUni, CUDAN Open Lab | @cudanlab.bsky.social

🌊🏖️🍹 Summer is upon us so we got some #fruitSALAD for you with a healthy dose of #confusion #matrices! 😎 🍇🍓🍎🍊🍍🥑🥝 just in case you need a style/semantic #bias #benchmark for #ML #models. #CulturalDataAnalytics #Aesthetics #AI Ohm et al. arxiv.org/abs/2406.01278

Longer take...

Wrapping up the final review of CUDAN Open Lab | @cudanlab.bsky.social project! 📊🎨Exciting to see innovative collaborations bridging data science and cultural insights come to life. Huge commitment to advancing digital cultural research! #CulturalData #OpenLab #Innovation

We're relaunching the Cultural Data Analytics Open Lab 2024-2027 funded through the @TallinnUni Research fund. CUDAN Open Lab | @cudanlab.bsky.social has moved to the upper third of the picture, above the Horizon. Please join us there! This is our last Tweet!