Harmony at MethodsCon: Futures in Manchester

MethodsCon in Manchester

We have attended MethodsCon: Futures in Manchester, run by the National Centre for Research Methods on 11 and 12 September 2024 to present Harmony, the NLP and AI tool we have been developing for researchers in social science, funded by Wellcome and the Economic and Social Research Council. The events took place at The Edwardian Manchester.

Methods Showcase – 11th September

The first event was a workshop on 11 September:

15:30-15:45 Spotlight 14: Harmony: a Natural Processing Approach to Data Discoverability and Harmonisation

See the full programme here

MethodsCon: Futures 12-13th September

We presented in the workshop: FDS 3 and Corpus-assisted discourse studies on 12 September, with events titled:

A.) Harmony: A natural language processing approach to data discovery and harmonisation.

B.) Corpus-assisted discourse studies: An introduction to a mixed methodology.

Harmony at MQ and DataMind Data Science Workshop

Harmony at MQ and Datamind Data Science workshop On 2 May 2025, Dr Eoin McElroy demonstrated Harmony at the MQ and Datamind Data Science workshop in Deutsche Bank. Eoin’s presentation focused on “Maximising the use of existing survey data: facilitating cross-study research using retrospective harmonization.” The workshop brought together researchers interested in applying novel harmonisation techniques to existing datasets. Eoin explained traditional harmonisation processes and presented a user-friendly guide to the Harmony tool, demonstrating how natural language processing can streamline the harmonisation process.

'Send to Harmony' Chrome plugin

[Beta mode: we are currently testing this extension] We have developed a browser extension for Harmony called “Send to Harmony” which lets you send selected text to Harmony with a right-click. For PDFs, use the popup to paste your selected text. Send to Harmony enables users to send selected text to the Harmony Data Harmonization (https://harmonydata.ac.uk/) platform for analysis. This plugin provides a right-click or context menu item which allows users to easily bring text from into their harmonisations, making it easier to compare and analyze different measurement scales across research studies.