Dates spring 2025

If you would like to join the seminar, please contact the local administrator at your university before the official start date.  Before joining a team, please complete the pre-work listed below, and present your results in  the admission block course listed below.

You can join any of the projects listed on the Projects  page.

Before joining a project team, you will have to work through the Happimetrics book manuscript, to familiarize yourself with the algorithms and methods used in this seminar, and do the pre-work listed below.

Pre-Work

1. Read the "happimetrics" manuscript, and pick a chapter for a short 10-minute powerpoint presentation in the introduction workshop. Additional slides are here. Sign up for the presentation.

2. Do either an analysis project using the code on github documented here  or complete an online social media analysis on Wikipedia or Reddit on a topic of your choice with Griffin. You can self-register for a free account on the Griffin Web site. When you start Griffin, be patient, although it says starting Griffin takes 2 minutes, it can take up to 15 minutes when many users are online. Also prepare to present these results as a powerpoint in 5 minutes in the block course together with your personality results from (3) below.

3. Complete a personality profile analysis on bee.come.human, comparing the results of filling out the personality, Schwartz ethics, and Dospert risk taking surveys with the AI generated profile of the card game. You can compare that with your values computed from your emotional response to provocative videos.

4. Voluntary: There will be a 2-day course April 3 and 4 (3 hours per day) on statistics Website Instats by Peter Gloor, "Using AI to read Hidden Signals of Humans, Animals, and Plants" which is an excellent introduction to the topic. It is free for students from U. Cologne, U. Bamberg, HSLU, and MIT.