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Lecturers of English Literature Study Program, Faculty of Humanities, Udayana University, Participate in OCSEAN Training and Workshop on Computational Statistics and Data Science at the University of Bristol, England
After successfully holding training and workshops for lecturers in the Bachelor of English Literature Study Program, Faculty of Humanities, Udayana University in Tartu, Estonia in 2024, in 2025 which marksthe last year of the OCSEAN Project, the OCSEAN Consortium (Oceanic and Southeast Asian Navigators) invited three (3) lecturers from the Bachelor of English Literature Study Program, FIB Unud to attend training and workshops on Computational Statistics and Data Science at the University of Bristol, United Kingdom. The three lecturers were I Komang Sumaryana Putra, I Made Sena Darmasetiyawan, and Putu Wahyu Widiatmika. The training and workshop were held for two (2) months from May 5 to July 3, 2025.
Led by a consortium of nine European universities, this OCSEAN project is a collaboration with universities and institutions in Island Southeast Asia and Oceania. It brings together researchers from around the world to re-evaluate our understanding of the Austronesian expansion, using new high-density data from archaeology, biological anthropology, linguistics, and genomics within a common statistical framework. As an ongoing series of activities, these training and workshop aim to train and empower OCSEAN academic members in mastering the basics of computational statistics and data science, and to encourage their use in processing Austronesian and Oceanian language data collected from the previous OCSEAN Summer Courses.
The event was also attended by representatives from the National Research and Innovation Agency (BRIN), Davao Medical School Foundation, Philippines, and The University of Papua New Guinea, Papua New Guinea. The materials presented covered various topics, ranging from Introduction to Data Science for Humanities, Beginning Python, Intermediate Python, Introduction to Data Analysis in Python, Applied Data Analysis in Python, to Computational Methods for Social Sciences (GitHub repository for the workshop). In the final weeks, the workshop materials focused on collaborative coding and writing reports. All of these materials are mandatory skills needed for the main goal of the entire event – to computationally analyze all languages and genetic data spread across Indonesia, the Philippines, and Papua New Guinea.
The participants received intensive materials taught by Prof. Daniel Lawson together with two doctoral students from the University of Bristol, Rachel Wood and Catherine Upex. After the workshop, data analysis was carried out together, chaired by Daniel Lawson, Professor of Data Science at the School of Mathematics. The entire event ended successfully with all initial comparison data being processed for future publication. It is hoped that the participation of lecturers from the Bachelor of English Literature Study Program, FIB Unud in this activity is expected to enrich the research and learning capacity in the field of digital linguistics and data science in the Faculty of Humanities. In addition to that, this activity with an interdisciplinary approach is also expected to broaden the horizons and collaboration of cross-field research in the future (ww).
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