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 others involve artificial intelligence to create more natural conversations around content. The content itself is a product of both editorial work as well as programming

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 our devices collect about us, and more importantly, what they share? Join us for a conversation with Surya Mattu, an artist, engineer and journalist who