Harmony tends to perform better if you upload a file with item numbers.
If there are are no question numbers in the instrument, it’s very hard for Harmony to distinguish question text from other content such as the copyright information. Click here to see an example PDF with question numbers included.
Also, if your PDF is a scanned document, please see if you can find a fully digitised (OCR’ed) version of the document.
We suggest either finding a file with question numbers or better quality content. Or try a different file format such as Word, Excel or CSV. We have guidance on formatting your files for Harmony.
Harmony supports:
Finally, feel free to raise an issue to let us know that your PDF isn’t being parsed. Please also share the PDF in question. Harmony is an open source tool for social sciences research.
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: 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
Upcoming Tech Talk: GenAI and LLMs night at Google London on 10 December 2024 We’re pleased to announce that the AI tool Harmony will be showcased at the upcoming GenAI and LLMs night at Google London on 10th December organised by AI Camp. Topic: Harmony, Open source AI tool for psychology research Speakers: Thomas Wood (Fast Data Science), Bettina Moltrecht (UCL) Date: 10th December 2024 See other Harmony events 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.
