SICSS-Istanbul is a leading global hub for learning and teaching computational social science, organized annually since 2018.
Istanbul, Turkey
Joined December 2020
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Today we're delighted to learn that SICSS_Istanbul 2021 alumnus and 2023 guest speaker and LLM-er extraordinaire @VminVsky will be joining @PrincetonCITP for PhD to work with @random_walker and @msalganik - computational social scientist heaven! 🥳🥳
thanks @random_walker and @msalganik for the support!
truly excited to be starting my cs phd at princeton this fall 🥳
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Publication alert!🚀Our paper "Mechanisms Driving Online Vaccine Debate During the COVID-19 Pandemic" which we have started in @SICSS_Istanbul in 2022 and @teyitorg is published in Social Media+Society It was a great journey with @onurvarol @aybukeatalayy @egeotenen @umut_duyguu
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🎉 Thrilled to announce my first-ever publication has finally arrived! 🎉
A monumental thank you to my incredible co-authors @onurvarol @ozgurcanseckin @egeotenen @umut_duyguu and @SICSS_Istanbul who brought this team together!
You can find the paper in the link below. We provide valuable and rich insights on the COVID-19 vaccine debate on the Turkish (Twitter)sphere 💉journals.sagepub.com/doi/ful…
Here is a thread of our key findings 🧵
SICSS_Istanbul 2019 alumnus and conflict analyst extraordinaire Mert Can Yılmaz on the news on methodological difficulties of monitoring the current war in Gaza from space youtube.com/watch?v=Mv9rwBhN…
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Stanford University released a new course - Probability for Computer Scientists (CS109). The course was recorded last year, and it covers the basics of probability theory
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🦙 Llama 2 and Code Llama models are now available in the Vertex AI Model Garden — more details from @GoogleCloudTech ⬇️
Vertex AI, your one-stop shop for building #generativeAI apps, just got some upgrades:
🔹 Access 100 large models in Model Garden, including Llama 2 from @MetaAI
🔹 Model and tuning upgrades for PaLM 2, Imagen, and Codey
& more ↓ #GoogleCloudNext cloud.google.com/blog/produc…
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Media Measurement Matters: Estimating the Persuasive Effects of Partisan Media with Survey and Behavioral Data | The Journal of Politics journals.uchicago.edu/doi/ab…
"Code Llama is a state-of-the-art LLM capable of generating code, and natural language about code, from both code and natural language prompts." xitter.cf/MetaAI/status/16947290…
Today we’re releasing Code Llama, a large language model built on top of Llama 2, fine-tuned for coding & state-of-the-art for publicly available coding tools.
Keeping with our open approach, Code Llama is publicly-available now for both research & commercial use.
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Major Nobel event on the future of network science xitter.cf/barabasi/status/169459…
Nobel Symposium Roundtable TODAY
with Matthew O. Jackson, Vittoria @vcolizza, David Lazer, @davidlazer, Kathleen Carley
2pm Sweden/ 8am EST
Watch here: youtube.com/watch?v=p1P42nvS…
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Stanford University has opened full access to CS224u, their immensely popular graduate-level Natural Language Understanding course taught by incredible Professor Christopher Potts.
Playlist: lnkd.in/gE5i68E2
Code: lnkd.in/gDyDEJrp
"researchers from the Media Lab, Stanford University, and Indiana University Bloomington use mobility network data and epidemiological models to develop an algorithm that identifies optimal vaccine distribution for maximum case reduction." nature.com/articles/s42005-0…
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Those of you seeking to upgrade their GIS methods might find this tutorial on geospatial machine learning useful. colab.research.google.com/dr…
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Delighted to join the 2023-24 Advisory Board of *the* SICSS; alongside @msalganik @duncanjwatts @jenjpan @dfreelon & other amazing CSSers. Looking fwd to share our @SICSS_Istanbul experiences with the global community of CSS-ers! Huge thanks to @chris_bail sicss.io/people
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Yesterday was the final day of @SICSS_Istanbul
Participants presented their group projects at @ozyeginuni @Open_Fab to a broader audience, including jury members @onurvarol @SerkantAdiguzel @MerihAngin @GundogduDidem @uzay00
This thread is a summary of presentations 🔗
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Day 11 at @SICSS_Istanbul -'home visit' at our main host institution @ozyeginuni
We participated in an ongoing human-computer interaction project at Dr Reyhan Aydoğan's Lab @cs_ozu
Then attended the 3D printing exhibition at Ozu-X @Open_Fab
Tomorrow: project presentations!
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Day 9 at @SICSS_Istanbul - we visited @Eczacibasi DNA Lab, which serves as the data science R&D center of the company's analytics ecosystem. Huge thanks to @buraksendogdu and Ece Ozbilen for hosting us and introducing Eczacibasi's vast data analytics and A.I. projects portfolio
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SICSS_Istanbul Lecture series end with @oballinger 's highly innovative cross-platform work on using synthetic aperture radar satellites to track grain ships smuggling Ukrainian grain. Ollie is a superb CSS expert and you should all be following his work: oballinger.github.io/
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2. fotoğrafta Ali Najafi bana mükemmel bir trick gösteriyor. Hemen paylaşayım: Github copilot diye bir hizmet sunuyor ve bu hizmet pycharm gibi IDElerle entegre edilebiliyor. Peki github copilot nedir?
This completes the intermediate methods section of @SICSS_Istanbul . The last and third week will start on Monday and will focus on project development and research cluster formation exercises that will kickstart participants' 2-3 year-term research/paper/publication agendas.
