Advancing Social Science Research: A Workshop Series on AI, LLMs, and Computational Methods

Thu, 28 Aug 2025 08:52:02 -0400

The Center for Social Science Scholarship (CS3) is pleased to present this workshop series on generative AI, LLMs, and computational social science methods. This series will begin with the basics of computing in R and how to use generative AI/LLMs in social science research workflows. Each session will be focused on getting faculty and students comfortable with deploying AI and LLM models in their research, but with a deeper understanding of the ethical, equity, and environmental consequences of these models. This series is being supported through the Elkins Professorship, will feature several speakers, and will continue into the spring semester.

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October 3 | 12-1:30pm | PUP 451
Introduction to R, R Projects, R Markdown and the Basics of LLMs
Led by: Dr. Eric Stokan

November 5 | 12 - 1:30pm | Commons 329
Inductive Analysis of Texts with Embeddings
Led by: Dr. Dustin Stoltz, Lehigh University

November 7 | 12-1:30pm | PUP 451
Dealing with unstructured data (text, images), APIs, and API calls to LLMs
Led by: Dr. Eric Stokan

December 12 | 12-1:30pm | PUP 451
Prompt-engineering and Fine-tuning in R
Led by: Dr. Eric Stokan

Hosted by the Center for Social Science Scholarship. Cosponsored by the Division of Information Technology, the Center for Scalable Data and Computational Science, and CGC-SCIPE.