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Sign Up To Test Harmony

Sign Up To Test Harmony

We are running workshops to test Harmony so that we can plan future development – see the signup link here.

Releasing Harmony API

Releasing Harmony API

We are pleased to announce that the Harmony REST API is now released. The source code (open source under MIT License) is at https://github.com/harmonydata/harmonyapi and the API reference PDF can be seen at https://github.com/harmonydata/harmonyapi/blob/main/docs/API_reference.pdf. Meanwhile, you can install and run Harmony Python library with pip install harmonydata How does Harmony work in layman’s terms? Harmony compares questions from different instruments by converting them to a vector representation and calculating their similarity.

How Far Can We Go With Harmony? Testing On Kufungisisa, A Cultural Concept Of Distress From Zimbabwe

How Far Can We Go With Harmony? Testing On Kufungisisa, A Cultural Concept Of Distress From Zimbabwe

Many psychologists believe that mental illnesses can vary across cultures. In 1904, Emil Kraepelin initiated the field of comparative psychiatry after studying mental health disorders in Java, writing that “Die Eigenart eines Volkes wird auch in der Häufigkeit und klinischen Gestaltung seiner Geistesstörungen zum Ausdruck kommen,” meaning “The peculiarity of a people[ethnic group] will also be expressed in the frequency and clinical form of its mental disorders.”[1] More than a century later, the emergence of global mental health research projects has opened a number of debates about the applicability of psychiatric categories to different cultural settings, such as those in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) series[2].

Measuring The Performance Of NLP Algorithms

Measuring The Performance Of NLP Algorithms

Harmony was able to reconstruct the matches of the questionnaire harmonisation tool developed by McElroy et al in 2020 with the following AUC scores: childhood 84%, adulthood 80%. Harmony was able to match the questions of the English and Portuguese GAD-7 instruments with AUC 100% and the Portuguese CBCL and SDQ with AUC 89%. Harmony was also evaluated using a variety of transformer models including MentalBERT, a publicly available pretrained language model for the mental healthcare domain.

Radio Podcast About Wellcome Data Prize

Radio Podcast About Wellcome Data Prize

The Wellcome Data Prize was recently featured on Smile 90.4FM, a radio station in South Africa. In this episode, Inês Pote discussed the Wellcome Data Prize in Mental Health. Wellcome is on the lookout for teams that develop innovative ways to use data to improve the prevention, treatment, and management of anxiety and depression in young people in South Africa. See also - during the Wellcome Data Prize we participated in a joint workshop with TIDAL, another team in the Data Prize.

Harmony Going Forward

Harmony Going Forward

5 key things Implementation Science has taught us to focus on Yesterday the Harmony team received the wonderful news that we are given the chance to continue working on Harmony for another six months, after which we can put ourselves forward for the final round. The Wellcome Mental Health Data Prize has chosen an unusual (for the research world) approach this time, using a “Dragon’s Den” style scheme where research teams can pitch their ideas to win funding for their projects.

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