
In cooperation of CIRHSS, Udayana University and Bachelor of English Literature (BoEL), Faculty of Humanities, Udayana University, several lecturers; they are I Made Sena Darmasetiyawan, I Komang Sumaryana Putra, and Putu Wahyu Widiatmika, were invited to attend the training and workshop on Computational Statistics and Data Science for Linguistics in University of Bristol, United Kingdom, which was held from 5th of May up to 3rd of July 2025. While similar workshop and training were also conducted during previous year (2024) visit to University of Tartu, Estonia, this follow up workshop and training in 2025 was intended to put forward any findings gained from previous years data collection.
In addition, this event was also participated by Dendi Wijaya, a representative from Indonesian National Research and Innovation Agency (BRIN), John Lennon Calorio from Davao Medical School Foundation, Philippines, Christopher Kinipi from The University of Papua New Guinea, Papua New Guinea, as well as Paul Geraghty, a linguistics expert in Fijian Language.
This workshop was aimed at providing courses by JGI training material in Beginning Python, Intermediate Python, Introduction to Data Analysis in Python, Applied Data Analysis in Python, and Computational Methods for Social Sciences (GitHub repository for the workshop). All these courses were mandatory skills required for the main purpose of the whole event – to computationally analyze all languages and genetics data spread across Indonesia, the Philippines, and Papua New Guinea.
Following the workshop, data analysis was chaired by Daniel Lawson, Professor of Data Science in the School of Mathematics, and assisted by 2 PhD students, Rachel Wood and Catherine Upex. The whole event for 2 months ended successfully with all the data initial comparison was able to be processed for future publications.
The series of activities from OCSEAN will be put into closure with an International Conference in Bali. Visit this page for further details on the event.