The Datathon & Machine Learning Competition is a unique opportunity for high school and college students around the world to get in involved in research at the Institute for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism (ISCA). Over the course of three weeks, students will participate in a series of workshops on the following topics:
- What is antisemitism? How is it defined? How does it manifest online?
- What is machine learning? How is machine learning helpful when observing and combatting antisemitism online? What challenges exist when using machine learning for this purpose?
- Why is manual annotation a necessary step for automated content detection? How do you manually annotate Tweets?
- What computing techniques can be used to analyze online content with machine learning algorithms? How do you build these programs?
After completing three workshops, teams will be tasked with manually annotating a corpus of Tweets about Jewish life and antisemitism. They will then develop their own scripts to identify antisemitic Tweets automatically. Teams will be scored on how accurately they identify content as antisemitic, both manually and with the machine learning algorithms that they trained over the course of this competition. For more information, check out last year's competition.
Prizes:
- Top three teams will be awarded a $500, $300, or $200 VISA / Amazon gift card*
- Each participant will receive a t-shirt and certificate for completing the program
*Type of gift card issued will be at the discretion of event organizers based on regulations in participant's country of residence.
Requirements:
- There is no fee to participate in the competition.
- No prior knowledge is required, but minimal experience with programming will be useful.
- All high school and undergraduate students from all countries are welcome to apply.
- Participants will need access to a computer and an internet connection. All workshops will be conducted over Zoom.
Workshop Dates:
- July 14, 2024 @ 1-3 pm ET
- July 21, 2024 @ 1-3 pm ET
- July 28, 2024 @ 1-3 pm ET
Contact:
Project Manager: Katharina Soemer ksoemer@iu.edu
Funded by:
Diane Druck
Academic Engagement Network
Borns Jewish Studies Program
IU Office of the Vice President for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
Ostrom Workshop - Program on Cybersecurity and Internet Governance
Supported by:
IU Data Science Club
IU Hillel
Chabad of Bloomington
Natural Language Processing Lab
Faculty Assistance in Data Science (FADS)
IU Research
The College of Arts