Here is the news from the Harmony project

[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.

We have a number of exciting updates to Harmony including: some improvements to the R library which have been asked for by researchers around the world who have been using Harmony on studies in lots of different topics as well as making our own fine tuned large language model available in the web UI, which is José’s winning model from the DOXA challenge which ended on 10 January 2025. Harmony has its own Large Language Model!

Harmony is an Official Partner of AI UK 2025 We are delighted to announce that Harmony is an Official Partner of AI UK 2025, the UK’s premier showcase for data science and artificial intelligence, hosted by The Alan Turing Institute. 📅 Date: 17-18 March 2025 📍 Location: Queen Elizabeth II Centre, Westminster, London At Harmony, we are pioneering AI-driven data harmonisation, enabling researchers to compare and integrate questionnaire data across diverse studies.

Help us design the next phase of Harmony and win up to £300 in vouchers! Search and Results UX/UI Challenge Harmony is a platform for researchers to help them discover and compare complex meta-data across different academic studies. The project is a collaboration between University College London (UCL), The University of Ulster, and Fast Data Science and has been funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) and by Wellcome as part of the Wellcome Data Prize in Mental Health.

It’s all over! The Matching Challenge is now officially closed. Thank you to everyone who took part. The wait is over! We have now closed the Matching Challenge which was hosted on DOXA AI. Over the course of the competition we saw a total of 26 participants with 14 finalists making it onto the scoreboard. The final days were tense with many participants improving on their scores, submitting different methods and swapping places at the top of the scoreboard.

Tech Talk: Building AI for Good - Showcase & Meetup at Newspeak House on 23 January 2025 We will present the open source AI tool Harmony at the second Building AI for Good - Showcase & Meetup on 23 January 2025 organised by Newspeak House. ​* 18:30 - Doors Open ​19:00 - 19:20: Thomas Wood (Fast Data Science) and Bettina Moltrecht on supporting psychologists with Harmony. We will discuss using generative AI and LLMs to help researchers discover datasets and compare items in mental health questionnaires, even when they are written in different languages.

Train your own Large Language Model to parse PDFs and win up to £1000 in vouchers! Join a competition to train a machine learning model to improve Harmony’s PDF parsing. You don’t need to have trained a machine learning model before. Register on DOXA AI Enter the competition on DOXA AI by fine tuning your own model and improve Harmony! Join our Discord Join the Harmony Discord server. Check out the 🏅「parsing-challenge」 channel!

Harmony at GenAI and LLMs night at Google London on 10 December 2024 Above: video of the AICamp meetup in London on 10 December 2024. Harmony starts at 40:00 - the first talk is by Connor Leahy of Conjecture We have presented the AI tool Harmony at the GenAI and LLMs night at Google London on 10th December organised by AI Camp at Google Cloud Startup Hub. AI Camp and Google hosted two deep dive tech talks on AI, GenAI, LLMs and machine learning, with food/drink, networking with speakers and fellow developers.

Click to view the video of the training session Transforming data management with the Harmony Data Tool: A hands-on introduction We’re excited to be partnering with UK Data Service to deliver a practical workshop on how to best use our tools. The session will take place online on 29 November. With live demonstrations of the Harmony Data Tool’s key functionalities, participants will leave with a clear understanding of how this tool can improve their data management processes which will help improve the efficiency and accuracy of longitudinal data analysis.

For users who have been using Harmony in their research, we have created an example scripts repository here https://github.com/harmonydata/harmony_examples This contains example R notebooks and Jupyter notebooks. You can upload your own example script if you have something to share with the research community. Example problems that users have been solving included: R examples Walkthrough R notebook in R Studio: Walkthrough R notebook in Google Colab: R Markdown to Check for Correspondence between Differently Worded Versions of the Same Scale Item View on Github - credit to Deanna Varley R Script to Check for Matches between Items from Different Scales View on Github - credit to Deanna Varley Python examples Walkthrough Python notebook Example script to create a crosswalk table on real survey data Example script to strip prefixes from questions Documentation View the PDF documentation of the R package on CRAN