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Preparing Data for LLMs

On Thursday, November 19th, Nicolo’ Brandizzi will be presenting “From 173 Billion Documents to Training Data: A Beginner’s Tour of LLM Data Processing” at Conf42’S MLOPS 2026. Join us to learn about Nicolo’s work at Frauenhofer IAIS, and workshop material based off of this research that is now available as open course content. Learn step-by-step how to take data from the raw Common Crawl data dump and proceed through all of the steps needed to make it ready to send off to an LLM for training. By the end you will know how a training corpus is built, and what that tells you about the models trained on it. No data-pipeline experience needed.

Data Challenge Data Structuring - Cheat Sheet!

We had a great time hosting our very first Data Challenge on the topics of Metadata and data structuring on November 7th at the University of Cologne!

New on the DKZ.2R blog - HowTo Data Sharing!

Were you ever frustrated because you wanted to share your research data with colleagues but did not trust private cloud services and also did not know what else to use?

New Courses and Events by the DKZ.2R

We’ve prepared several new courses and events to help you improve your data literacy skills through the Rhine-Ruhr Center for Scientific Data Literacy.

New on the DKZ.2R blog!

Our DKZ.2R Consultant Christian Hillen from University of Cologne shares “Do’s and Don’ts in Research Data Management” — a practical guide to what really works (and what to avoid) when organizing, storing, and reusing research data.

DKZ.2R @ Tag der Neugier

DKZ.2R beim „Tag der Neugier“ 2025 in Jülich

Am 7. September 2025 öffnete das Forschungszentrum Jülich wieder seine Türen zum „Tag der Neugier“ und lud die Öffentlichkeit auf den Campus in Jülich ein. Das Rhein-Ruhr Zentrum für wissenschaftliche Datenkompetenz (DKZ.2R) war mit einem eigenen Beitrag in der zentralbibliothek vertreten.