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SUMMARY:Journocoders
DESCRIPTION:For the second Journocoders NYC\, we’ll be exploring the web-based coding notebook service Observable. This is a fairly new online platform\, but Observable notebooks are already being used to produce lightweight interactive explainers and live code samples. If you’ve ever used Jupyter Notebooks\, Observable may feel familiar – except that it’s for JavaScript code instead of Python. \nBring a laptop as this will be a hands-on\, practical workshop. We’ll be following Mike Bostock’s series of introductory tutorials\, which are themselves written in Observable notebooks. No programming experience is needed\, although if you haven’t written JavaScript before we recommend going through Introduction to JavaScript on Codecademy. \nMake sure you’re signed up to Dropbox to view our shared doc (https://paper.dropbox.com/doc/Journocoders-NYC-July-2018-hPMuUxeelka8Dtm61RQF2) and add links to anything data or journalism-related you’ve seen or worked on to the show and tell section! \nThis event is kindly hosted by the Brown Institute at Columbia Journalism School\, and refreshments are sponsored by The Wall Street Journal. \nSchedule: \n7.00: Doors open\n7.30: Show & tell\n7.40: Tutorial\n9.00: Drinks!
URL:https://brown.columbia.edu/event/journocoders/
LOCATION:Brown Institute at Columbia\, 2950 Broadway\, New York\, NY\, 10027\, United States
CATEGORIES:Trainings
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180503T130000
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SUMMARY:Alternative Capturing Techniques for 3D Storytelling
DESCRIPTION:The Brown Institute is pleased to announce another training session related to Augmented Reality (AR) and Virtual Reality (VR) — this one is brought to you by our own Rosalie Yu. \nAlternative Capturing Techniques for 3D Storytelling \nWhat can our phone cameras capture besides 2D images? \nHow can you reconstruct a world in 3D using these images? \nHow can these alternative capturing techniques add new dimensions to your stories? \n3D scanning has already proved to be a useful tool in a variety of fields such as urban planning\, museum archiving\, game design\, landscape surveying\, and forensic documentation. As the technology continues to progress and enter new fields\, new applications for the technology continue to emerge\, as well. Techniques such as photogrammetry* have already been used for storytelling in AR\, VR\, and even physical media such as 3D prints. \nIn this workshop\, we will introduce students to the techniques\, affordances\, and future promise of 3D scanning. You will learn to use your camera phone and low cost infrared sensors to create 3D models for immersive visual experiences. No prior 3D experience is required to attend. \nThe workshop will take place on Thursday 5/3 from 1pm to 4pm. \nBring your own object and we will turn it into a 3D digital model. You will walk away from the workshop with: \na basic understanding of the hardware and software for photogrammetry and infrared technology \na workflow to use browser (SketchFab) and AR platforms for hosting and annotating 3D assets. \nTo sign up\, please fill in your information at this link and contact Rosalie (hy2514@columbia.edu) if you have any further questions.
URL:https://brown.columbia.edu/event/alternative-capturing-techniques-for-3d-storytelling/
LOCATION:Brown Institute at Columbia\, 2950 Broadway\, New York\, NY\, 10027\, United States
CATEGORIES:Trainings
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180325T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180325T170000
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SUMMARY:Transparency Series Workshop: Augmented Reality
DESCRIPTION:The storytelling capacity with AR is enormous\, although the toolsets are still a bit hard to use. Join members from Etsy and the New York Times to get up-and-running with augmented reality\, and spend the day building a story prototype utilizing the technology. \nApply for the workshop
URL:https://brown.columbia.edu/event/transparency-series-workshop-augmented-reality/
LOCATION:Brown Institute at Columbia\, 2950 Broadway\, New York\, NY\, 10027\, United States
CATEGORIES:Trainings
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DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20180305
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SUMMARY:Base Camp 2018
DESCRIPTION:The Brown Institute for Media Innovation invites you to apply to the Media Innovation Base Camp taking place on March 3-4\, 2018 at Stanford University. The Media Innovation Base Camp offers a great starting point for entrepreneurial students who want to explore the interplay between story and technology. All travel and lodging expenses will be covered by the Brown Institute. \nThe topic for Base Camp 2018 is Media Literacy and Transparency. We will assemble a cohort of up to 8 students from each campus who will work in mixed teams (with representation from both journalism and engineering) to address different aspects of this topic. In an era when Facebook can change its News Feed overnight\, or sites like Twitter allow coordinated activity to provide people outsized voices on the network\, the platforms many of us rely on for our news are fragile and easily gamed. What can we do to encourage a robust “media ecology”? How can we help people better understand the origins and truthfulness of the information they receive? \nOur goal at Base Camp is to introduce students to a design process\, with a goal of prototyping an new idea that might lead to a one-year “Magic Grant” project (read about the Brown Institute’s Magic Grant program here). Brown Institute Fellows\, industry experts\, and faculty will be on hand to provide feedback\, guidance\, and support. You don’t need to have a fleshed-out idea to apply for these events — the Base Camp is designed to give you space to develop your ideas collaboratively. That said\, you do need to demonstrate an expressed interest in the topic. \nSelected participants will partake in one or two small priming exercises prior to the event to help lay the groundwork for more informed interactions during the actual event. These could take the form of paired conversations via Skype or Hangout\, assigned readings or diarying exercises\, suggested museum or site visits\, or bicoastal lectures. \n2-Day Program Outline \nDay 1 – Morning: Group & Project Identification\nDay 1 – Afternoon: Prototyping\nDay 2 – Morning: Prototyping\nDay 2 – Afternoon: Project Presentations and Brown Institute Overview Presentation \nApplication Details \nIn your application\, you must provide the following: \n\nCurrent Résumé/CV\nAcademic Transcript (current for Stanford students; undergraduate for Columbia students)\nThe theme of this year’s Base Camp is “Media Literacy and Transparency.” Explain your interest in the topic. (500 word max)\nBase Camp is an exercise in interdisciplinary collaboration. Explain your experience and interest in working in multi-disciplinary teams. (300 word max)\n\nApplication Deadline: January 30\, 2018 \nApplications are holistically reviewed by a panel consisting of the Brown Institute staff and other faculty members\, a process that thoroughly considers each candidate’s interests\, academic qualifications\, and background/prior experiences. If you submit a project idea\, we will evaluate it as an example of your interests and your desire to collaborate.   \nApply at brwn.co/basecamp2018
URL:https://brown.columbia.edu/event/base-camp-2018/
LOCATION:Brown Institute at Stanford\, 355 Serra Mall\, Stanford\, CA\, 94305
CATEGORIES:Trainings
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SUMMARY:Visual Language Workshop: Part III
DESCRIPTION:The Brown institute at Columbia will be offering a three-session workshop on Visual Language\, designed for journalism students to build vocabularies and practical skills around visual design through lectures\, discussions\, and hands-on sessions. You will walk away with a basic understanding of design principles and an overview of the graphics editor Adobe Illustrator. \nIn the workshop you will learn to communicate a piece of content clearly and effectively in type\, color and layout\, and recreate a piece of graphic from scratch with Illustrator. We will discuss questions such as – How to communicate without using the words and help viewers see the most important information? Here is the course outline: \nWeek 1 Design Principles\nMonday 2/5\, 10am-12pm\, Room 601A \n\nColor (color system and schemes\, color choices)\nTypography (fonts size\, weight\, style\, readability\, type choices)\nComposition (layout\, grid systems\, information hierarchy)\n\nWeek 2: Adobe Illustrator\nMonday 2/19\, 10am-12pm\, Room 601A \n\nRaster and vector\nInterface and workflow\nFormats (svg\, jpg and png)\nProduce graphic\n\nWeek 3: Work Session\nMonday 2/26\, 10am-12pm\, Room 601A \n\n\nBring your projects or questions \n\n\nThe workshop will take place in Room 601A on Mondays 2/5\, 2/19\, and 2/26 from 10am to 12pm (note there will be no session on 2/12). Please fill in your information using this link to sign-up\, contact Rosalie (hy2514@columbia.edu) if you have any further questions.
URL:https://brown.columbia.edu/event/visual-language-workshop-part-iii/
LOCATION:601A in Pulitzer Hall\, Columbia University\, 2950 Broadway\, New York\, NY\, 10026\, United States
CATEGORIES:Trainings
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180224T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180224T170000
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SUMMARY:Transparency Series Workshop - Networks
DESCRIPTION:Graph databases are optimized for working with complex and connected data. Social media data is a great example of a complex dataset where the connections in the data are often as important as the discrete data points\, making it a great use case for applying network analysis using a graph database. \nIn this hands-on workshop we will cover how to model\, import and query Twitter data using the Neo4j graph database. We will focus on learning how network analysis can be applied to the data by using the property graph data model and Cypher\, the query language for graphs\, to write queries that can help find stories in the data. We will use a dataset of tweets from Twitter accounts tied to Russia that were released as part of the House Intelligence Committee investigation into Russia’s potential interference in the 2016 US election. \nWorkshop fascilitators: \nLars Nordwall: Lars is an entrepreneur and leader with a successful track record of building software and services companies. He has a unique sense of clarity how to identify a promising technology\, and how to transform it into a leading company. Track record includes senior leadership positions at Pentaho (sold to Hitachi for $600M)\, Cambridge Technology Partners (IPO\, market cap >$5B\, and later sold to Novell)\, SugarCRM (pre-IPO)\, and now Neo4j where he is the President & COO. Find him at www.linkedin.com/in/larsnordwall/ and @lnordwall \nWilliam Lyon: Will is a software engineer at Neo4j\, the open source graph database\, where he builds tools for integrating Neo4j with other technologies and helps developers be successful with graphs. Prior to Neo4j\, he worked as a software engineer for a variety of startups\, building APIs\, quantitative trading tools\, and mobile apps for iOS. William holds a master’s degree in Computer Science from the University of Montana. You can find him online at lyonwj.com or @lyonwj \nJesús Barrasa: Jesús is an engineer based in London. He’s currently heading Neo4j’s\, Global Telecom Practice where his mission is to get all Telcos in the world getting value from graphs with Neo4j. He combines over 15 years of professional experience in consulting in the Information Management space. Prior to joining Neo Technology\, Jesús worked at Ontology (now EXFO) for seven years\, where he got the first-hand experience with large graph DB deployments in many successful projects for major Telecommunications companies all over the world. Jesús holds a PhD in Computer Science from the Technical University of Madrid\, where he carried out his research on graph data modeling and Semantic Technologies. He blogs at https://jesusbarrasa.wordpress.com/ and tweets occasionally at @BarrasaDV \nApply at http://transparency.brown.columbia.edu/networks
URL:https://brown.columbia.edu/event/transparency-series-workshop-networks/
LOCATION:Brown Institute at Columbia\, 2950 Broadway\, New York\, NY\, 10027\, United States
CATEGORIES:Trainings
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180205T100000
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SUMMARY:Visual Language Workshop
DESCRIPTION:The Brown institute at Columbia will be offering a three-session workshop on Visual Language\, designed for journalism students to build vocabularies and practical skills around visual design through lectures\, discussions\, and hands-on sessions. You will walk away with a basic understanding of design principles and an overview of the graphics editor Adobe Illustrator. \nIn the workshop you will learn to communicate a piece of content clearly and effectively in type\, color and layout\, and recreate a piece of graphic from scratch with Illustrator. We will discuss questions such as – How to communicate without using the words and help viewers see the most important information? Here is the course outline: \nWeek 1 Design Principles\nMonday 2/5\, 10am-12pm\, Room 601A \n\nColor (color system and schemes\, color choices)\nTypography (fonts size\, weight\, style\, readability\, type choices)\nComposition (layout\, grid systems\, information hierarchy)\n\nWeek 2: Adobe Illustrator\nMonday 2/19\, 10am-12pm\, Room 601A \n\nRaster and vector\nInterface and workflow\nFormats (svg\, jpg and png)\nProduce graphic\n\nWeek 3: Work Session\nMonday 2/26\, 10am-12pm\, Room 601A \n\n\nBring your projects or questions \n\n\nThe workshop will take place in Room 601A on Mondays 2/5\, 2/19\, and 2/26 from 10am to 12pm (note there will be no session on 2/12). Please fill in your information using this link to sign-up\, contact Rosalie (hy2514@columbia.edu) if you have any further questions.
URL:https://brown.columbia.edu/event/visual-language-workshop/
LOCATION:601A in Pulitzer Hall\, Columbia University\, 2950 Broadway\, New York\, NY\, 10026\, United States
CATEGORIES:Trainings
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171202T100000
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SUMMARY:Transparency Series Workshop - Climate Change
DESCRIPTION:On Saturday of our exploration into the climate change beat\, we will survey the current landscape of reporting on climate change\, and look to the tools\, data and resources that exist for reporters trying to write about the topic. In three consecutive sessions\, students will be paired with PhD students in Columbia’s Environmental Science program to come up with pitches of their own — new stories to contextualize the impacts of climate change. \nSaturday’s workshop is capped at 24 students and an application will be posted a few weeks prior to the event.
URL:https://brown.columbia.edu/event/transparency-series-workshop-climate-change/
LOCATION:Brown Institute at Columbia\, 2950 Broadway\, New York\, NY\, 10027\, United States
CATEGORIES:Trainings
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171028T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171028T170000
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SUMMARY:Transparency Series Workshop - Drone Photography
DESCRIPTION:Following on the heels of a seminar by Missy Higgins on Friday night\, on Saturday\, we will get our hands dirty and take a field trip north of NYC and give students the chance to both pilot small drones as well as stage shots from the robotic\, onboard camera. This is the first time we are offering this event in the series and our first field trip. The Saturday workshop will be led by Andrew Scott of USA Today.
URL:https://brown.columbia.edu/event/transparency-series-workshop-drone-photography/
LOCATION:Brown Institute at Columbia\, 2950 Broadway\, New York\, NY\, 10027\, United States
CATEGORIES:Trainings
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170923T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170923T170000
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SUMMARY:Transparency Series Workshop - Virtual Reality
DESCRIPTION:On Saturday\, the VR workshop will take students who have little to no background in VR and teach them the fundamentals of working in the medium. Journalists seeking to expand their storytelling beyond the still image and written word are encouraged to join. Selected participants will gain critical insights into emerging digital strategies in order to engage audiences across new immersive platforms. \n\nVeda Shastri is a documentary filmmaker and immersive journalist. She is currently a producer of The Daily 360 at The New York Times where she handles international coverage in 360 video. She recently produced the series “Genocide’s Legacy” as well as an interactive from inside Fukushima\, Japan. Veda co-produced a VR documentary\, “Return to Chernobyl” for PBS Frontline\, which released in April 2016. She was a news producer at CNN-IBN in New Delhi\, India for 5 years. \n \nGuglielmo Mattioli is a multimedia journalist from Italy and currently a video editor of The Daily 360 at The New York Times. He also produces coverage on architecture and real estate. A former urban planner\, Guglielmo found in 360º videos and VR a perfect medium to tell stories about the built environment. His work has also been published in City Limits\, Metropolis Magazine\, and ArchDaily.
URL:https://brown.columbia.edu/event/transparency-series-workshop-virtual-reality/
LOCATION:Brown Institute at Columbia\, 2950 Broadway\, New York\, NY\, 10027\, United States
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