DDLS Annual Conference 2024 workshops
November 14, 2024 @ 13:30 – 15:30 CET
During the second day of the DDLS Annual conference 2024 participants will have an opportunity to attend one of the workshops. The workshops are directed at researchers in data-driven life science in all career stages.
Each workshop has a limited number of seats, on the first come first served basis. Those registered after the limit is reached will be placed on the waiting list.
The workshops will take place in various rooms of the main venue of the conference – Hilton Slussen. All workshops start at 13:30 but end at various times. Coffee/tea and fika will be served during the workshops.
Feel free to email datacentre@scilifelab.se with any questions.
Workshops
Hands-on with Large Language Models
Held by: Ola Spjuth (UU, SciLifeLab) and AI data engineers at SciLifeLab Data Centre
Where and when: November 14, 2024 at 13:30-15:00, room Sofokles
Description: Tools based on Large Language Models (LLMs) such as ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot, Perplexity, etc. are now widely used in various tasks such as drafting and editing texts, analyzing data, writing and troubleshooting code, creating images, etc. This workshop is aimed at researchers who never used or only recently started using LLM-based tools and would like to learn more. We will start with a theoretical introduction of how LLMs work and in which tasks they can be especially useful. Workshop participants can then choose from a number of hands-on exercises that they can complete on their own laptops. We will be available to help and answer questions.
Packaging and sharing data science applications as Docker container images
Held by: Data Engineers at the SciLifeLab Data Centre.
Where and when: November 14, 2024 at 13:30-15:30, room Platon
Description: This workshop is aimed at life science researchers who want to share data science applications such as apps built with R Shiny, Plotly Dash, Gradio, Streamlit etc. publicly or with colleagues. Docker container images are a powerful tool for packaging and sharing applications and analyses widely used in both industry and academia. During the workshop we will first present the basics of Docker and how to build Docker container images. Building on this knowledge participants will then carry out hands-on exercises on their own laptops while we will be available to help. Finally, we will also demonstrate how to publish applications packaged as Docker images on SciLifeLab Serve (https://serve.scilifelab.se) and make them available on the web with a URL (for example, to be used in research papers or other output). SciLifeLab Serve is a service available free of charge to all life science researchers in Sweden. The participants are welcome to bring their own data science applications, and we can help packaging them on the spot.
How to boost your career using Open Science
Held by: Joanna Sendecka, Suné Joubert, & Parul Tewatia, SciLifeLab Data Center; Ineke Luijten, SciLifeLab Training Hub
Where and when: November 14, 2024 at 13:30-15:30, room Eros
Description: Over the past years, the evaluation of researchers by institutions, journals, and funders has been expanded to encompass more than just publication metrics. This workshop is aimed at researchers that want to learn how to use new researcher evaluation criteria to boost their careers by increasing visibility of and gaining credit for all of their research outputs. In this workshop, we will discuss past, current, and future evaluation criteria, and will then provide hands-on exercises to demonstrate how researchers can get and give credit for a range of research outputs, including datasets, software, code, public engagement, and training. We will do this in adherence with DORA and CoARA principles, and the use of a variety of tools, such as CRediT taxonomy and ORCID.
Registration
Since there is a limited number of seats in each workshop please sign up only if you intend to attend.
datacentre@scilifelab.se
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