Are you a Humanities student or researcher wanting to learn more about how digital science can help your projects but have never known where to start ? Then Py4SHS is for you !
Through interactive workshops conducted by experts in applied mathematics, computer science, and digital humanities, participants will acquire practical knowledge in coding, data visualization, and statistical methodologies applied to problems in the humanities.
The program is structured as an intensive five-day training, featuring one theoretical lecture each morning, followed by an afternoon laboratory session where participants will implement the concepts covered during the morning lectures.
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Mon9-9:30am: Welcome coffee.
9:30-11:30am: Keynote lecture: An Introduction to Digital Humanities, by S. Robert-Hayek.
11:30-14:30am: Lunch break.
14:30-17:30: Hands-on course: Setting up your Python environment, by C. Lemarinier.
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Tue9-9:30am: Welcome coffee.
9:30-11:30: Featured speaker: An Introduction to the PyData environment, databases and HTTP API, by C. Lemarinier.
11:30-14:30: Lunch break.
14:30-17:30: Hands-on course: Manipulating data using Python, by C. Lemarinier.
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Wen9-9:30am: Welcome coffee.
9:30-11:30: Featured speaker: An introduction to Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing, S. Robert-Hayek
11:30-14:30: Lunch break.
14:30-17:30: Hands-on course: Applying Natural Language Processing methods for text classification, by S. Robert-Hayek.
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Thu9-9:30am: Welcome coffee.
9:30-11:30: Featured speaker: An introduction to Artificial intelligence for Optic Character Recognition, by M. Pister.
11:30-14:30: Lunch break.
14:30-17:30: Hands-on course: Using Tesseract for manuscript recognition, M. Pister
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Fri9-9:30am: Welcome coffee.
9:30-11:30: Featured speaker: An Introduction to Quantitative Statistics, by S. Robert-Hayek.
11:30-14:30: Lunch break.
14:30-17:30: Hands-on course: Performing statistical tests, S. Robert-Hayek.
Frédérique Rey (Ecritures)
Sophie Robert-Hayek (Maison des Sciences de l'Homme).
Davide d'Amico (Ecritures).
Mathieu Pister is a computer scientist from Grenoble, working at the Schneider company : he has worked for a wide range of projects, from Deep Learning for timeseries analysis to Data Engineering for complex industrial pipelines.
Celine Lemarinier has a Master in Computer Science and has been active for 20+ years in very different domains and across 3 countries. She currently works for Eviden's HPC R&D, leading a team applying Data Science for the optimization of large supercomputers. Previously, Celine worked in online payments and automated call distribution.
Sophie Robert-Hayek holds a PhD in computer science and is currently a post-doctoral researcher in digital humanities, working on computational philology.
F. Rey is a biblical scholar, leading several project in digital humanities. She is specialised in Hebrew paleography and codicology and works on critical edition of Hebrew manuscripts from the Dead Sea Scrolls and Cairo Genizah.
The summer school will take place from the 25th-29th August 2025, at the Saulcy Campus, in the center of Metz. If you need help finding affordable housing, please contact us. You can reach Metz by car or train (Metz or Lorraine TGV station then shuttle [25 minutes] or plane (Luxembourg Findel, Aeroport Metz-Nancy-Lorraine).
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Participants will be asked to pay a 50 euros fee for the week (15 hours of lessons, 15 hours of practical lab).