Edinburgh Centre for Data, Culture & Society

🎉Thank you to everyone who joined us for the CDCS Digital Research Prizes Awards Ceremony this afternoon, and many congratulations again to our winners! 🏆 Find out about their work here: https://loom.ly/_u5sT8U

Announcing the Winners of the CDCS Digital Research Prizes 2024 | Data Culture & Society We are thrilled to announce the winners of this year’s CDCD Digital Research Prizes. Congratulations to all our winners and to all those whose fabulous work was nominated!

Today’s the day! 'Imagining AI: Mathematical Stories in a Museum Context' starts at 16:00. It’s your last chance to join us and explore AI through the lens of history with Ursula Martin. https://edin.ac/4aM7yys

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Mark your calendars CAHSS researchers! 📅 Join us on June 7th for the CDCS Digital Research Prizes Awards Ceremony. Celebrate the creativity and impact of digital research in CAHSS. Don't miss this exciting event! https://edin.ac/4aHdfhp ,

CDCS Digital Research Prizes Awards Ceremony 2024 | Data Culture & Society CDCS Digital Research Prizes Awards Ceremony 2024 7 Jun 2024, 12:00 – 14:00 Book Now Book Now Join us for the CDCS Digital Research Prizes 2024 awards ceremony and lunch reception!The CDCS Research Prizes are an opportunity to celebrate the amazing work being done by researchers across CAHSS. The ...

Join us on May 29 for 'Imagining AI: Mathematical Stories in a Museum Context'. Dive into the intersection of mathematics, and museum curation with Ursula Martin. Register now! 📚 https://edin.ac/4aM7yys

Project Deep Dive: Ursula Martin Imagining AI: computing stories in a museum context

We're delight to be hosting a workshop on Epistemic Network Analysis by following on from his talk at on 23rd April - more on the talk here https://edin.ac/3TC2YwA. Sign up for the workshop here: https://edin.ac/3TF9zGM

Quantitative Ethnography: Human Science in the Age of Big Data This Leverhulme seminar is organised in partnership with the AQRiE Hub. Professor David Shaffer at the University of Wisconsin-Madison will give us a presentation entitled 'Quantitative Ethnography ─ Human Science in the Age of Big Data.'

What is humanities data? Join us to explore how we might think about literary, artistic & historical sources in terms of data: what questions arise, what types of files & formats do we encounter, & how might we work with them to answer research questions:

What is Humanities Data? | Data Culture & Society What is Humanities Data? 15 Apr 2024, 10:00 – 11:30 Book Now Book Now  When we talk about data, we are often referring to quantitative information gathered in the sciences through observation and measurement. Yet across the humanities disciplines, datasets also play a key role in enabling resea...

LATEST NEWS: We’re excited to add a new CDCS Training Pathway on Managing Digitised Documents! The pathway was created by PhD students Ash and Vesna as part of their digitisation internship in partnership with University of Edinburgh Libraries and Museums.

Find out more here: https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/cdcs/2022/09/06/cdcs-digitisation-internship-creating-the-managing-digitised-documents-pathway/

In case you missed it: the Centre for Data, Culture & Society's third Annual Report is available on our website and in pdf format! The report outlines our activities and achievements in the academic year 2021/22, including events, training, supporting our community, research clusters & projects.

View the full report: https://www.cdcs.ed.ac.uk/cdcs-annual-report-21-22

Come work for CDCS as an Administrative Assistant to help deliver our ambitious agenda to build capacity for and computational research across CAHSS!

Deadline to apply: 20 July
Find out more: https://edin.ac/3ymAxXT

We're hiring! CDCS is looking for a Centre Administrator to join our fast-paced and dynamic team. The post will support our extensive events, training and activity programmes, and lead on the delivery of our communications and social media.

Deadline to apply: 3 June

Find out more: https://elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/CandidateExperience/en/sites/CX_1001/job/3336

It’s all about the feelings…
Open rehearsal for performance pilot, presented over Zoom for

10 March 2022, 7-8pm

An exciting opportunity to see creative work by our CDCS colleague Bev Hood!

It’s all about the feelings is an ‘open rehearsal’ for a digital performance pilot looking at AI and emotional recognition systems, presented over Zoom. The event will playfully interrogate how AI maps actors’ emotive expression, within different acting techniques, as a way to unpick complex issues about AI’s reductive methods of standardisation, categorisation and bias, in amplifying privileges and inequalities around race, s*x, gender, age and ability.

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It’s All About The Feelings : Beverley Hood It’s All About The Feelings is an ‘open rehearsal’ for a digital performance pilot looking at AI and emotional recognition systems.

Job Opportunity! We're looking for a new post-doc in text and data mining, who'll be based in English Lit and work with us and . Develop your own humanities research, and help us support others doing TDM across Edinburgh. Grade 7: £34 - £40K. International applications welcome. https://bit.ly/3oZCK84