A new data lab "Bi DataLab Sustainability and Climate Change" has been founded at Bielefeld University at the Bielefeld Centre for Data Science. Data labs represent an agile approach to (internal) research collaboration, characterised by a thematic focus and a clear needs-driven orientation. The newly founded DataLab Sustainability and Climate Change at BiCDaS invites researchers at Bielefeld University working on sustainability, climate change and environmental protection to the Sustainability Networking Workshop on 7 June from 9 am to 5 pm. The aim of the workshop is to bring together groups of researchers with similar research interests to develop joint scientific projects. Interested researchers can register at .
On 17 June 2024, Prof. Dr. Andreas Witt from the Leibniz Institute for the German Language Mannheim will give a lecture on "Digital Literacy mit ChatGPT: Kompetenzen zum Umgang mit digitalen Texten". The lecture will take place from 12:15 to 13:45 in the Cafe Nordlicht at Bielefeld University on site but also as a hybrid event online via Zoom. The lecture emphasises digital literacy in the humanities, with a focus on research data and the role of ChatGPT in the development of digital literacy. It begins with a conceptual introduction to digital literacy, highlighting the importance of digital texts in science, and covers their representation, analysis and processing, highlighting Python and spaCy as key tools.
The EuADS Summer School will take place in Luxembourg from 18th to 21st June 2024. The topic for this year's event is Generative AI. Registration for the summer school, which is sponsored and co-organized by BiCDaS, is now open on the >homepage of the .
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At BiCDaS, Data Science is considered an interdisciplinary field of knowledge and a holistic approach to a phenomenon pervading science: the increasing ubiquity of data.
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BiCDaS supports instructions in Data Science and Data Literacy at Bielefeld University. Knowledge about data and how to properly handle it will be key skills in the near future.