A workshop in the Tech Up at GU series

Large Language Models for Social Science at Scale

Ashrakat Elshehawy

6 March

noon - 1 pm

Large Language Models for Social Science at Scale

Ashrakat Elshehawy

The session will show how social scientists can use LLMs to extract structured information from messy, unstandardized textual data, such as media reports, websites, or administrative documents, at scale. We will cover practical prompt-engineering techniques. The session will walk through simple, adaptable code for classification and information extraction, and introduce basic verification strategies (performance metrics, human-in-the-loop checks, and consistency tests) to ensure reliability.

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