• Transparency Series Seminar: Drone Photography by Josh Haner and Meaghan Looram, New York Times

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

    Join us on Friday evening for our last Transparency Series seminar featuring Josh Haner, staff photographer and the senior editor for photo technology, in conversation with Meaghan Looram, the Director of Photography at The New York Times. They will discuss previous drone project they've worked on together, and the role of drones in Journalism. As

  • 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

  • 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