hi, there was some confusion about the deadline being last night vs. end of the week. we'll leave it open until midnight Friday, thanks!

Happy to announce our next i3 Upskilling session, Thursday August 21 at noon (New York time / EDT). ➡️"Using Large Language Models without Blowing Your Research Budget"⬅️ Hosts: Navid Asgari (Fordham) and Deepak Nayak (OSU) Register here: cornell.zoom.us/meeting/regi…

I’m happy to announce our next @I3Open Upskilling session, Thursday August 21 at noon (New York time / EDT). By far, our most requested topic was Large Language Models, so I’m excited that I was able to enlist Navid Asgari (Fordham) and his coauthor Deepak Nayak (OSU) for this session. Navid co-founded Cogneunce, an AI-based mental healthcare startup and is also a research fellow at IBM Watson. here's a summary: Large language models (LLMs) are opening new possibilities for research, especially in tasks like classification, sentiment, or theme extraction, and sub-corpus analysis. But navigating the growing range of models and tools can be overwhelming, and many researchers worry about cost, data quality, and hallucination. This session offers a practical, research-focused overview of how to use LLMs effectively and affordably. We’ll compare model types, discuss open vs. closed access, and walk through strategies like prompt design, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), and lightweight fine-tuning. The focus will be on helping you choose the right tools for your research tasks, without compromising on accuracy or breaking the bank. Sound interesting? Register for the zoom at this link: cornell.zoom.us/meeting/regi…

brief update: we just received word that the PatentsView contract has been renewed for an additional year, starting tomorrow. I'm not sure what will happen next year, but for now the data will continue to be updated.

Quick update regarding PatentsView metadata: the final datasets, including granted, pre-grant and beta tables, are now available on the I3 BigQuery data repository. Link: console.cloud.google.com/big… Join our mailing group: groups.google.com/g/i3-bigqu…

update: unclear that the patentsview site will come down today (no formal announcement yet), but just in case we've posted all data from the 12/31/2024 release. details here: linkedin.com/posts/mattmarx_…

let us know what topics we should cover at the next Upskilling session

starting in about an hour! not too late to register

70 people registered for the first @I3Open Upskilling session this Friday! Can we hit triple digits? cornell.zoom.us/meeting/regi…

I'm looking forward to this! We’re hosting lots of innovation data on the @I3Open BigQuery repo. Join us on Feb 21st for our first webinar. Roger Masclans (@rogermasclans) will cover efficient querying, cost optimization, and key use cases. Register here cornell.zoom.us/meeting/regi…

Releasing an open dataset based on @MBikard's dissertation regarding "idea twins." David Hsu and I scaled up his algorithm to the entire Web of Science, scraping Google Scholar to detect adjacent co-citation in PDFs. Here's the server farm in my basement 1/

one last (I promise!) update from @I3Open's big weekend: ➡️the 2025 batch of i3 Fellows⬅️ funded by the Alfred P. @SloanFoundation, Fellows receive a stipend and attend i3 Technical Working Group Meetings. we seek Ph.D students engaged in open datasets. here is this year's batch, in reverse alphabetical order 1/

thanks everyone for making the 2024 @I3Open technical working group so fun. none of this would have been possible without the support of the Alfred P. @SloanFoundation. if you would like to join our email list for updates, go here ➡️mailman.mit.edu/mailman/list…⬅️

Satyaki Chakravarty (Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milano) has created a dataset of patents (and applications) in India, which are undercounted in commonly-used sources. finds increasing geographic diversity of patents in India, a surge in Mumbai, and huge growth in mechanical engineering key question from Bronwyn Hall: does this mean there's more *invention* in India vs. greater awareness of the practice of patenting inventions

@mayadurvasula, from our first batch of @I3Open Fellows, is back for a 3rd time to show that the performance of commercial LLMs (gpt-4o) can be matched by retraining open\simpler models (BERT) with a small sample of commercial encodings