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  • Transparency Series Seminar: Polling with Amanda Cox

    Brown Institute at Columbia 2950 Broadway, New York, NY, United States

    Join us for a discussion with Amanda Cox from the Upshot at the New York Times who will discuss polling and its importance in the political races. As the 2018

  • Transparency Series Workshop: Polling with FiveThirtyEight

    Brown Institute at Columbia 2950 Broadway, New York, NY, United States

    The first workshop in the Transparency Series takes you through techniques for looking at one or more polls over time. Join Janie Velencia and Dhrumil Mehta who lead Pollapalooza at FiveThirtyEight to get exposed to sources, tools, and strategies for working with polls — starting at the very beginning with simple random samples, and leading

  • Transparency Series Seminar: Voice Interfaces with Joseph Price of Washington Post and Tommy O’Keefe, Vincent Farquharson & Nara Kasbergen of NPR

    Brown Institute at Columbia 2950 Broadway, New York, NY, United States

    Voice assistants are changing the way people search for and consume content. By one estimate, half of the adults in the US make use of voice interfaces — for now, mostly on their smartphones. But with the steady improvement of voice recognition, smart speakers like Amazon’s Echo, Google Home, Apple’s HomePod constitute new platforms for

  • Transparency Series Workshop: Voice Interfaces with Washington Post & NPR

    Brown Institute at Columbia 2950 Broadway, New York, NY, United States

    Authoring experiences for a voice assistant or smart speaker is a combination of several distinct skillsets. Some conversational interfaces are driven by keywords, depending on users stating specific terms, while

  • Transparency Series Seminar: Reporting on Devices with Surya Mattu

    Brown Institute at Columbia 2950 Broadway, New York, NY, United States

    More than ever, objects in our homes and on our person are connected, sharing data about our lived experience with companies and with the public. How do we measure what

  • Transparency Series Workshop: Reporting on Devices with Consumer Reports

    Brown Institute at Columbia 2950 Broadway, New York, NY, United States

    Most consumer advocacy is based on a definition of consumer rights anchored on two things: value and safety. While these issues are perennial concerns for consumers, they don’t capture the

  • Transparency Series Workshop: Drone Photography

    Brown Institute at Columbia 2950 Broadway, New York, NY, United States

    Drones can provide access to regions that are otherwise impossible to film. The artful, informative deployment of drone photography and its role in journalism is the subject of this Transparency Series event. On Saturday, we will get our hands dirty and take a field trip north of NYC and give students the chance to both

  • The Transparency Series – Natural Language Processing

    Brown Institute at Columbia 2950 Broadway, New York, NY, United States

    Presenter Allison Parrish, NYU Workshop Description Much like other forms of data, documents and text provide enormous potential as a form of data to be analyzed and visualized. This workshop

  • The Transparency Series – Reporting on Twitter

    Brown Institute at Columbia 2950 Broadway, New York, NY, United States

    Presenter Craig Silverman, BuzzFeed Workshop Description Twitter is not just a source of updates from friends and happenings in the local community. Instead, it is a dense network embedded with

  • The Transparency Series – Artificial Intelligence

    Brown Institute at Columbia 2950 Broadway, New York, NY, United States

    Presenter John Keefe, Quartz Workshop Description Data, code and algorithms are changing systems of power in our world, often without sufficient critical assessment or accountability. Today’s journalists need to understand how these forces operate, engaging the underlying computational tools and techniques. At the same time, the ways journalists understand the world and communicate their observations

  • The Transparency Series – Data Visualization

    Brown Institute at Columbia 2950 Broadway, New York, NY, United States

    Presenter The Pudding Workshop Description Graphical (or pictorial) presentations of data have become an almost essential part of journalistic practice. Data visualization helps us see patterns in data, and is

  • The Transparency Series – Political Polling

    Brown Institute at Columbia 2950 Broadway, New York, NY, United States

    Presenter Dhrumil Mehta, FiveThirtyEight Workshop Description The last workshop in the Transparency Series takes you through techniques for looking at one or more polls over time. Join Dhrumil Mehta who leads Pollapalooza at FiveThirtyEight to get exposed to sources, tools, and strategies for working with polls — starting at the very beginning with simple random