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

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