• Transparency Series Seminar: Data Visualization with Jeremy White, NYTimes

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

    Maps, charts, and graphs have become an almost essential part of the journalistic practice, as well as the centerpiece of many published pieces. But how can we best incorporate these tools into our investigative process, and how do we design them to be as engaging and insightful as possible? Join us for a conversation with

  • Distinguished Lectures in Computational Innovation: Runa Sandvik, New York Times

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

    'Protecting High-Risk Users at The New York Times' Runa Sandvik joined The New York Times in 2016 to build a security program dedicated to the newsroom, putting the focus on the security maturity of the newsroom; the desks; and individual reporters. In doing so, Sandvik built on experience from her time at The Tor Project,

  • 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

  • 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 will introduce and discuss the ways in which textual materials (news articles, government records, social media, and other primary sources) can be worked with as

  • 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 narratives of how the world is structured, including how information flows and spreads, both within and outside of communities. The platform is host to policy

  • 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