Join us this Monday, Feb 9,
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for a lecture & discussion with
#JanneHolmén of #UppsalaUniversity

on "A #History of #Diagrams" (Paleolithic to present)

16:00-18:00 Tallinn time UTC+2 🇪🇪🇪🇺🌍
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#dataviz

Putin pretends to care for Eastern Ukraine, which was under-expressed in Soviet Newsreel propaganda! Detail from Figure 1 in Tamm, Mikhail V., Mila Oiva, Ksenia D. Mukhina, Mark Mets, and Maximilian Schich. "City representation in Soviet propaganda and geographical biases in cultural data." Nature Cities (2026). https://doi.org/10.1038/s44284-025-00380-1 "Significantly over- and underrepresented cities, insignificantly over- and underrepresented cities and cities which are mentioned roughly as expected are shown with cyan, red, grey-cyan, grey-pink and grey circles, respectively. Cities in Moscow and Donbas regions are shown in smaller circles to reduce their overlap."

"Here we measured geographical biases in the representation of cities in a large Soviet news-media corpus..."

@cudanlab.bsky.social in #NatureCities @nature.com

#MikhailTamm, @mila-oiva.bsky.social, #KseniaMukhina,
@metsmark.bsky.social & @schichmax.bsky.social

Free read rdcu.be/e1UvJ

#Ukraine 🇺🇦

Good news everyone!

Dr. Mila Oiva @mila-oiva.bsky.social

our former postdoctoral senior research fellow at @cudanlab.bsky.social in #Estonia, has been appointed #professor in Digital Humanities at FAU @dhssfau.bsky.social.

Congrats to Mila & my home state of #Bavaria! 🎉

Join us Monday, Dec 14 at @cudanlab.bsky.social
for a lab encounter with

#MonikaKackovic et al. at @uva.nl
on art & AI, endurance in fashion, Bollywood, and being ranked.

16:00-18:00 Tallinn time UTC+2 🇪🇪🇪🇺🌍
22 hours from this post.

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Web: www.cix-lab.org

YouTube video by CUDANLab Oleg Sobchuk: Evolution of Literature and the Arts.

Oleg Sobchuk @sobchuk.bsky.social
@cudanlab.bsky.social
"Evolution of Literature and the Arts."
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zLnZ...
(title slide fixed)

YouTube video by CUDANLab Corinna Coupette: Computational Perspectives on Legal Systems.

Corinna Coupette @dataspider.bsky.social
@cudanlab.bsky.social
"Computational Perspectives on Legal Systems."
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YouTube video by CUDANLab Oleg Sobchuk: Evolution of Literature and the Arts.

Oleg Sobchuk @sobchuk.bsky.social
@cudanlab.bsky.social
"Evolution of Literature and the Arts."
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zLnZ...

YouTube video by CUDANLab Laura Nelson: We’re Talking About the Wrong Error: Why Variance Matters More than Bias in AI.

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"Why Variance Matters."
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YouTube video by CUDANLab Christian Bentz: Statistical properties of a 40,000 year old sign system.

Christian Bentz @cudanlab.bsky.social
"Statistical properties of a 40,000 year old sign system."
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YouTube video by CUDANLab Andrew Piper: Computationally Modeling Collective Narratives.

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"Computationally Modeling Collective Narratives."
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YouTube video by CUDANLab Melvin Wevers: The Architecture of Information.

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"The Architecture of Information."
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YouTube video by CUDANLab Meeyoung Cha: AI, Society, and Computing: Leveraging Global Data While Tackling Ethical Challenges.

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"AI, Society, and Computing"
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Join us today @cudanlab.bsky.social
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feat. Oleg Sobchuk @sobchuk.bsky.social,
of @mpi-eva-leipzig.bsky.social

on "Evolution of Literature and the Arts"

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feat. #CompSocSci Prof. Dr. #LauraNelson:

"We’re Talking About the Wrong Error:
Why Variance Matters More than Bias in AI"

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Christian Bentz
PI of www.erc-evine.de
at Saarland University, Germany

on Statistical properties of a 40,000 year old sign system

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Maria Rita D'Orsogna on
America’s overdose crisis & Saving Italy from Big Oil

#CulturalDataAnalytics Open Lab Seminar
double feature lecture & discussion

2025-05-26, 16:00-18:00 (Tallinn time)

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Socioeconomic patterns and their dynamics in social networks and language

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2025-04-21 at 18:30-19:30 UTC+3 🇪🇪 🏖️
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Prof Atau Tanaka Atau researches embodied musical interaction, human computer interaction and gestural computer music performance.

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www.gold.ac.uk/computing/pe...
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"Global Biodata Governance"

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🔥Andrea Baronchelli🔥 (@baronca.bsky.social)

"From Local #Interactions to Global #Conventions:
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#CompSocSci #GenAI #Bias

Publications - Andrew Iliadis Books Iliadis, A. (2025). Autonomous Defense: How Tech Companies are Crafting and Cashing in on the Future of Warfare. Under contract. Ruyer, R. (2023). Cybernetics and the origin of information (A. B...

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by Andrew Iliadis (andrewiliadis.com)

16:00-1800 EET Tallinn time
14:00-16:00 UTC London time
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Fig 1. The description length of women is systematically longer than men's with a tailed length distribution and a meaningful median. Very few Discord users are accountable for the longest prompts. A. Images of women are overrepresented compared to men (1,606,013 vs 779,200). B. Images of men are described in fewer words than those of women. As the length of the prompt increases, the distributions exhibit a sharp decline of around 50-80 words in length, highlighting the end of the optimal prompt length. The orange dashed line indicates the prompt length limit of 2000 characters (approx. 350 words) specified by the Discord platform. C. Distribution of unique users by prompt length for images depicting men and women. The x-axis indicates prompt length in words, while the y-axis shows the number of unique users on a logarithmic scale. The trend shows that the highest number of unique users prefer prompts around 20-50 words to describe images of men and women, with a significant decline in unique users as prompt length increases. Despite differences in the median prompt length, the overall prompt construction pattern is similar across gendered images, suggesting a shared preference for concise prompts.

Descriptions of women are longer than that of men: An analysis of gender portrayal prompts in Stable Diffusion.
arxiv.org/abs/2411.18994

#Aesthetics #Complexity #DescriptionLength #UtPicturaPoesis

Kudos to Yan Asadchy, PhD candidate @cudanlab.bsky.social, for initiating & performing this analysis!

Happening #today!