We will be at MethodsCon: Futures in Manchester, run by the National Centre for Research Methods on 11 and 12 September 2024 to present Harmony, the NLP and AI tool we have been developing for researchers in social science, funded by Wellcome and the Economic and Social Research Council. The events take place at The Edwardian Manchester.
The first event is a workshop on 11 September:
15:30-15:45 Spotlight 14: Harmony: a Natural Processing Approach to Data Discoverability and Harmonisation
We will be presenting in the workshop: FDS 3 and Corpus-assisted discourse studies on 12 September, with events titled:
A.) Harmony: A natural language processing approach to data discovery and harmonisation.
B.) Corpus-assisted discourse studies: An introduction to a mixed methodology.
Video of Thomas Wood presenting Harmony at the AICamp meetup on 27 March 2024
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No part of this blog post constitutes legal advice. A common question that came up at the two expert witness conferences which I attended in 2026, was
There are a number of unresolved questions around when and how AI can be used in court documents. A variety of cases have been reported where litigants in person, advocates, or expert witnesses have been admonished or penalised by the courts for undeclared or inappropriate use of AI. In this post, I will focus on AI use in England and Wales, although I have covered some other jurisdictions in an earlier blog post on the topic.
Thomas Wood, director of Fast Data Science, appeared today as a panelist at the Bond Solon Expert Witness Conference on 6 November 2026 at Church House, Westminster in London. This follows Thomas’s appearance at the Ireland’s Expert Witness Conference on 20 May 2026.
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