In 2015, the Brown Institute funded the Nueva Nación team in Panama to create the country’s first truly accessible public data platform, El Tabulario, and now they’re finally ready to launch. On May 26th and 27th, we’ll be hosting journalists, computer scientists, and students in Panama City to pore over the team’s compiled data and explore new
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Data Viz @ Brown – Manuel Lima, Mona Chalabi, Kenan Davis
On Friday May 5 and Saturday May 6, the Brown Institute will host its final Transparency Series events — this time we’re presenting data visualization! Join Manuel Lima on May 5th at 5pm for a fascinating tour through millennia of circular information design in architecture, urban planning, fine art, design, fashion, technology, religion, cartography, biology, astronomy
Research Speed Dating
The Brown Institute and the Institute for Data Sciences and Engineering hosted a Speed Dating event to promote inter-disciplinary collaboration. On the east side of the table we have architecture, the humanities, the social sciences, journalism and education; and on the west side we have engineering, mathematics and computer science. Matchmaker, matchmaker…
Media Mashed
Paul “DJ Spooky” Miller mashed up media and music in a free-flowing performance/talk at Stanford April 13. Miller explored the intersection of hip hop and high tech, arguing that new forms of storytelling can emerge in our high-tech age when we remix and redefine content and contexts. Listen to the talk here.
DJ Spooky heading to Stanford as Brown Innovator-in-Residence
Brown@Stanford welcomes Paul D. Miller, aka DJ Spooky, for a week-long residence, starting April 10. Together with Stanford Vice Provost for Teaching & Learning, the Stanford Institute for Diversity in the Arts, and the Stanford Center for Computer Research and Accoustics, we will be hosting several events during his visit, including: THE PIONEERS OF AFRICAN
Transparency 2.0: Experiments in Interdisciplinary Collaboration
Over the weekend, the Brown Institute hosted an experiment in interdisciplinary collaboration. On Saturday, March 25, we gathered 24 journalism students and 7 PhD students from Columbia’s Lamont-Doherty Earth Sciences campus to collaborate on new stories about our changing climate. We started the day with a presentation by Gavin Schmidt, Director of the Goddard Institute for
This summer – The Brown Institute in Columbia College!
Brown Institute fellow Charles Berret and other members of our staff collaborated on a new class being offered by Columbia College. The six-week summer course is focused on using data, code and algorithms to open new lines of journalistic inquiry and new ways of telling stories about the world around us. The class will explore the
A Brown Institute All-Hands: The Magic of New York In February
Part of the joy of the Magic Grant process is getting to see all of our teams coming together over the course of their year with us. So two weekends ago, we brought the whole Brown Institute family (our grantees, fellows, and staff) out to Columbia University for our first All-Hands of 2017. Magic Grantees
Washington Post Executive Editor Marty Baron, In Conversation
Just hours after The Washington Post unveiled its new slogan “Democracy Dies in Darkness,” the Brown Institute at Stanford hosted the newspaper’s Executive Editor Martin “Marty’” Baron, as part of the Institute’s Winter Quarter Speaker Series. Brown’s Stanford Director, Maneesh Agrawala, interviewed Baron before a capacity crowd at Stanford’s CEMEX Auditorium. The two held a wide-ranging discussion