Upcoming Tech Talk at AICamp meetup

Upcoming Tech Talk: at the AICamp AI Meetup (London): AI, Generative AI, LLMs

Update: you can download the slides from the presentation here

We’re pleased to announce that the AI tool Harmony will be showcased at the upcoming AICamp AI Meetup in London on 27 March.

You are invited to AICamp’s monthly in-person AI meetup in London. Join us for deep dive tech talks on AI, GenAI, LLMs and machine learning, food/drink, networking with speakers and fellow developers

Topic: Harmony, Open source AI tool for psychology research

Speaker: Thomas Wood (Fast Data Science)

Location: Cathedral View, Carlisle Place, St. Vincents Centre, London, SW1P 1NL

Date: 27 March 2024

Thomas Wood presenting Harmony at AI Camp on 27 March 2024

Abstract: In this talk, Thomas will discuss AI for social sciences research and how to build a research tool with NLP and AI with open source tool Harmony, funded by Wellcome Trust with Social Finance and developed with Ulster University, UCL and Universidade Federal de Santa Maria in Brazil.

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Agenda

6:00pm~6:30pm: Checkin, Food/Snacks/Drink and Networking
6:30pm~6:45pm: Welcome/community update
6:45pm~8:30pm: Tech talks
8:30pm: Open discussion & Mixer

Understanding AI in Social Science Research: Discover how AI can revolutionize the social sciences, unlocking new avenues for investigation.
Building with Harmony: Learn how to use Harmony, an open-source tool, to create your own research tools.
Joining open source project: Discuss how you can contribute to Harmony.

Hugo Bowne-Anderson from Outerbounds will also present about building GenAI and ML systems with OSS Metaflow.

This follows on from the talk on Harmony given by Bettina Moltrecht, PhD last week at OpenUK.

Register now and be a part of this exciting event!

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.
17 August 2023: Harmony and TIDAL workshop

Improving Harmony's PDF extraction with user testing

Since we built Harmony, a common complaint has been that it frequently identifies the wrong questions in PDFs. The original algorithm for finding questions in PDFs was a mixture of rule based heuristics and some hand coded logic to look for e.g. lines in the document which begin with numbers. This was very fragile and worked fine on short questionnaires such as the GAD-7, but failed on larger documents. We decided to run a competition with our partner DOXA AI where members of the public could train their own model to extract questions from PDFs.

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.