In 1933, amidst the Great Depression, Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal gave rise to the Home Owners’ Loan Corporation (HOLC), an effort aimed at preventing widespread foreclosures. However, this effort
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Announcing Points Unknown 2023
Points Unknown, a workshop series designed for journalism students, is an eight-week series to introduce students to spatial investigative and visualization techniques. News unfolds in places and every newsworthy event
Data Fixers and InfoAmazonia Unveil “The Amazon Underworld,” a Landmark Initiative to Expose and Combat Criminal Economies in the World’s Largest Rainforest
Through a strategic partnership, Data Fixers and InfoAmazonia are excited to announce the launch of “The Amazon Underworld,” a groundbreaking project funded and supported in part through The Brown Institute
The Brown Institute for Media Innovation Celebrates its Magic Grant Recipients for 2023-2024
The Brown Institute for Media Innovation, a groundbreaking partnership between Columbia Journalism School and Stanford University’s School of Engineering, is proud to announce its 2023-2024 Magic Grant recipients. This is
Introducing Visualizing Virality
In today’s digital age, social media reigns supreme as the primary mode of communication and content distribution. Yet, as we know too well, the design of these platforms fosters a
Preliminary analysis released for partnership with UNFPA on 2023 State of World Population report
The Brown Institute, in partnership with the United Nations Population Fund, is excited to announce a research endeavor investigating and visualizing the patterns and trends of media coverage on population
Join us on April 21 for ‘Computing &’
The Vagelos Computational Science Center (CSC) at Barnard College in partnership with The Brown Institute at Columbia Journalism School welcome you to Computing &, a series of panels exploring the
Supporting Communities through “Equitable Data”
US Chief Data Scientist Denice Ross and Deputy US Chief Data Scientist Dominique Duval-Diop visit the Brown Institute on March 30. Public Talk: 11-12:30 ET [RSVP Here] Lunch with Students:
Missing Them Exhibits at Photoville
To mark the 3rd anniversary of COVID in New York City, the MISSING THEM project is partnering with Photoville to bring stories and obits from our project to community spaces