Easy issues to get started on in Harmony: Python and R

We have a few more issues that have been added to the issue trackers.

If you are new and would like to make a pull request in either the Python or R libraries feel free to pick these up - they should be quite small.

Easy issues in Python library

We would like to expose the “between instrument matches” and the “negation” switches in the Python library and then from the API side. Ultimately this will allow the R library to expose this functionality.

https://github.com/harmonydata/harmony/issues/60: Allow user to turn on/off the “within instrument matches” behaviour
https://github.com/harmonydata/harmony/issues/59: Allow user to turn on/off the negation behaviour

Moderate issue in Python

https://github.com/harmonydata/harmony/issues/56 - users are having real problems processing large lists of items. So this would have to be batched to send to the LLM. The tricky part is, you will need to make the batch size configurable and choose a sensible default, and then expose it through the API, but also not allow a user to overload the API.

Easy issues for R library

https://github.com/harmonydata/harmony_r/issues/4 Can we have a built in function to turn the matching scores into a crosswalk table (e.g. a table like the website produces) and output as a dataframe?
https://github.com/harmonydata/harmony_r/issues/5 Expose an easy and idiomatic R-like way to create instruments in R

How else can I contribute?

Please take a look at the issue trackers on our repositories. There are issues tagged as good first issue which you can pick up

Python - the main core library and the Python package which is on Pypi
R - the R port is on CRAN and it is slightly less mature than Python so we really appreciate if you can give the R package some TLC.
API - the Python API runs with Pydantic and Fast API and is running on an on-prem server enabling the web app to work
Web front end - we welcome feedback and contributions on front end and UX issues
If you’re doing research and found Harmony useful, please cite us!
If you’re a researcher trying to use the tool, and you encounter a problem, a bug, or a feature which you would like us to implement, please raise an issue on Github or message us on Discord.

Competition to train a Large Language Model for Harmony on DOXA AI

Harmony on DOXA AI: Train your own Large Language Model and win up to £500 in vouchers! Join a competition to train a Large Language Model for mental health data. You don’t need to have trained a Large Language Model before. We would like to improve Harmony’s matching algorithm. Sometimes, Harmony mistakenly thinks that sentences are similar when a psychologist would consider them dissimilar, or vice versa. We have evaluated Harmony’s performance in this blog post.

Harmony at Women In Data™️

Harmony at Women In Data™️ London Chapter (online event) On 22 November, we will present Harmony at Women In Data™️ London Chapter’s event on Application of Generative AI and LLMs. Thomas Wood will demonstrate Harmony and how it uses Gen AI. The event will be livestreamed. ⏲️ 25 minutes talk + 10 minutes Q&A 📅 Date: November 22nd 2024, 6:15 pm 📝 RSVP See also our past events 22 November 2024: Harmony at Women In Data™️ London Chapter 30 October 2024: Onboarding webinar for DOXA AI competition 8 October 2024: Harmony: a free online tool using LLMs for research in psychology and social sciences at AI|DL London 11 and 12 September 2024: Harmony at MethodsCon Futures in Manchester 2 July 2024: Harmony: NLP and generative models for psychology research at Pydata London 3 June 2024: Harmony Hackathon at UCL 5 May 2024: Harmony: A global platform for harmonisation, translation and cooperation in mental health at Melbourne Children’s LifeCourse Initiative seminar series.