Talk: Dealing with unstructured data, APIs, and API calls to LLMs 11/7
Dr. Eric Stokan, 12-1:30pm Fri. Nov. 7, Public Policy 438
In this session Dr. Eric Stokan, director of UMBC's Center for Social Science Scholarship, will discuss ways to process and handle unstructured data such as text and images. The session will take place in person at UMBC in Public Policy 438 from 12-1:30pm on Friday, November 7.
Topics he will cover include:
- Using the R programming language to work with unstructured data like text and images
- Using OpenAI (makers of ChatGPT) to analyze unstructured data through an API
- Comparing LLMs to other AI techniques such as topic models and named entity recognition
- Discussing more effective ways to prompt LLMs
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Lunch will be provided for registered attendees.
Hosted by the Center for Social Science Scholarship and cosponsored by the Division of Information Technology, the Center for Scalable Data and Computational Science, and CGC-SCIPE.
Posted: November 6, 2025, 9:42 AM
