Please note!
This is a two-part course held over two days in the same room:
Part 1: Thursday, January 8, from 09:00 to 12:00 in Grupperom 7, Georg Sverdrups hus
Part 2: Friday, January 9, from 09:00 to 12:00 in Grupperom 7, Georg Sverdrups hus
Course description
On Educloud research you can work with sensitive data, which can’t be shared with other AI services like GPT UiO. You can also use other models than those provided by standard AI services. In this workshop you will learn to write Python programs that processes text with models downloaded from HuggingFace.
Target audience
Researchers on all levels.
Learning outcomes
- Logging on to Fox and installing the software that we will need.
- Loading and querying basic LLMs.
- Using LLMs for making shorter summaries of documents.
- Building an application for doing Retrieval-Augmented Generation based on a set of documents.
Prerequisites
- Basic programming skills.
- If you don’t know basic programming, you can prepare by completing the course Programming with Python (https://swcarpentry.github.io/python-novice-inflammation/) as self-study.
Technical and Material Requirements
- Laptop
- Educloud research account (we can help participants register some days before the workshop)
Lunch
- There will be a complementary buffet-lunch at 12:00-13:00 from the Sverdrups spiseri (Georg Sverdrups Hus, 2nd floor).
- After you get your lunch, join us at Store møterom where we have reserved seats for #DSDays2026 participants.
Number of participants
After the soft deadline, a waiting list will be automatically handled upon de-registrations.
Contact
If you have any questions regarding this course, or anything else about the DSDays 2026 event, please contact us per email: digitalscholarship@ub.uio.no