The Methods Lab is the central unit for supporting, connecting, and coordinating the methods training and consulting at the Weizenbaum Institute. Besides assisting ongoing research projects of the research groups and units, the lab also conducts methods research and develops tools for the collection and analysis of digital data.
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- Career Tutorial: LLMs for all Expertise Levels (March 7, 2025)In a joint effort, the Career Development and the Methods Lab are excited to announce the hybrid “Career Tutorial on LLMs for all Expertise Levels”. In this tutorial, beginning with fundamental concepts of LLMs and in-context learning, we’ll address the “Needle in the Haystack Problem” and compare ultra-long context models […]
- Workshop Recap: Introduction to GitOn February 6th, 2025, LK Seiling facilitated a workshop for an Introduction to Git, with support from Sascha Kostadinoski and Quentin Bukold. This was co-organized by the Methods Lab and took place at the Weizenbaum institute. The hybrid event provided a thorough overview on the foundation of Git and its […]
- Workshop: Social Science and Language Models (April 3–4, 2025)The Weizenbaum research groups “Digital Economy, Internet Ecosystem, and Internet Policy” (Jan Batzner) and “Data, Algorithmic Systems and Ethics” (Dr. Fatma Elsafoury), supported by Fraunhofer FOKUS and TU Berlin, with contributors Zeerak Talat and Flor Miriam Plaza del Arco, are excited to introduce the workshop “Social Science and Language Models […]
- Recap: Second Networking Event for Digitalization Research in BerlinAfter the first networking event in 2024, the Methods Lab at the Weizenbaum Institute and the Interdisciplinary Center for Digitality and Digital Methods at Humboldt University Berlin (IZ D2MCM) organized a second networking event on January 24, 2025. As with the initial event, members of various institutions, institutionalized teams, and […]