
Lugano, Switzerland
Digitally Augmented Public Health: A practice-based approach
When:
18 August - 20 August 2025
Credits:
1 EC
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Artificial Intelligence & Computer Sciences
When:
16 June - 20 June 2025
School:
Global School in Empirical Research Methods
Institution:
University of St. Gallen
City:
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Language:
English
Credits:
4 EC
Fee:
1100 CHF
The course introduces the use of open-source large language models (LLMs) from the Hugging Face ecosystem for research in the behavioral and social sciences. In short lectures, participants will learn about key concepts (e.g., embeddings, causal attention, feature extraction, classification, prediction, fine-tuning, and token generation) and practical examples from social and behavioral science. In hands-on exercises, participants will apply language models to answer research questions from psychology, political science, decision-making research, and other fields. During and after the course, participants will engage in a personal research project applying LLMs to a personal research question. Two lecturers will hold this course, implying a high level of support during the exercises and research project design.
LLMs (think ChatGPT) are incredibly useful tools for research in the social and behavioral sciences. In this course, you will (1) learn about the fundamental principles of LLMs, (2) learn how to employ open-source LLMs using the Hugging Face ecosystem, (3) learn about the rich opportunities that LLMs offer for behavioral and social science research, and (4) gain experience in applying LLMs to answer personal research questions.
Dirk Wullf, Zakir Hussain
Master | PhD | Postdocs | Professionals
Fee
1100 CHF, Master | PhD
Fee
2000 CHF, Postdocs | Professionals
When:
16 June - 20 June 2025
School:
Global School in Empirical Research Methods
Institution:
University of St. Gallen
Language:
English
Credits:
4 EC
Lugano, Switzerland
When:
18 August - 20 August 2025
Credits:
1 EC
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Oxford, United Kingdom
When:
11 August - 29 August 2025
Credits:
7.5 EC
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Lille, France
When:
21 May - 25 July 2025
Credits:
12.0 EC
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