Transparency Series Seminar: Reporting on Devices with Surya Mattu
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
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Media Innovation Seminar: Rethinking Audio with Matt Stuart and Micah Collins
Brown Institute at Stanford 355 Serra Mall, Stanford, CAMatt Stuart is Head of Google Home Product Planning and launch for the Google Home product group (Google Home,Home Mini, and Home Max, as well as Chromecast and Google Wifi).
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Knowing Together – Exhibition
Offit Gallery | Teachers College 525 West 120th Street Russell Hall 3th floor, New York City, NY, United StatesKnowing Together is a project exploring the dimensions of intimacy through 3D scanning. The exhibition was born out of a workshop and commissioned by the 2018 Myers Fund at EdLab Teachers College
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Transparency Series Workshop: Reporting on Devices with Consumer Reports
Brown Institute at Columbia 2950 Broadway, New York, NY, United StatesMost 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
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2018-2019 SPEAKER SERIES: FELICE FRANKEL
Cypress Auditorium, Allen Extension 420 Via Palou Mall, Stanford, CA, United StatesSCIENCE PHOTOGRAPHER & MIT RESEARCH SCIENTIST On January 30, the Brown Institute welcomes celebrated science photographer and MIT Research Scientist Felice Frankel. She will offer a masterclass on "Image and
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Mapping Module 1 – Introduction to Mapping
Brown Institute at Columbia 2950 Broadway, New York, NY, United StatesNews unfolds in places and every newsworthy event is shaped by the details of location. Those details might include the specifics of a neighborhood as it is today or of
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Distinguished Lectures in Computational Innovation: Yi-Min Chee
Brown Institute at Columbia 2950 Broadway, New York, NY, United StatesBlockchain: A Solutions Perspective Yi-Min Chee Senior Technical Staff Member and Chief Architect, IBM Food Trust Blockchain Solution Abstract. Blockchain technology has moved beyond the realm of cryptocurrencies to start to address
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Transparency Series Seminar: Data Visualization with Jeremy White, NYTimes
Brown Institute at Columbia 2950 Broadway, New York, NY, United StatesMaps, 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
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Transparency Series Workshop: Data Visualization with Agnes Change, ProPublica
Brown Institute at Columbia 2950 Broadway, New York, NY, United StatesData visualization has become a multipurpose tool in journalistic practice. It allows us to see patterns in data and to discover new stories, as well as to insightfully communicate our
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Mapping Module 2 – Census Data and Geocoding
Brown Institute at Columbia 2950 Broadway, New York, NY, United StatesNews unfolds in places and every newsworthy event is shaped by the details of location. Those details might include the specifics of a neighborhood as it is today or of
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Magic Grant Information Session
Brown Institute at Stanford 355 Serra Mall, Stanford, CAWe'll go over a brief overview of the Brown Institute's history and work, and give an outline of our Magic Grants program and policies. Open office hours will also be
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Magic Grant Information Session
Brown Institute at Columbia 2950 Broadway, New York, NY, United StatesAre you passionate about the role that emerging technologies can play in the future of media? Do you have a story that can only be told using technology outside the
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Closing Reception of Knowing Together
Offit Gallery | Teachers College 525 West 120th Street Russell Hall 3th floor, New York City, NY, United StatesWe are approaching the closing date for Rosalie Yu's recent project Knowing Together, a set of seven resin sculptures suspended in acrylic domes using unconventional capture and printing techniques. These sculptures render 3D models produced through collaborative photogrammetry by a group of 35 participants during a workshop commissioned by EdLab, the R&D unit at Teachers College,
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Mapping Module 3 – Data Analysis and Estimation
Brown Institute at Columbia 2950 Broadway, New York, NY, United StatesNews unfolds in places and every newsworthy event is shaped by the details of location. Those details might include the specifics of a neighborhood as it is today or of the history leading to its current configurations. With the popularization of cartography, anyone with a computer and an internet connection can make a map, yet
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Queer & “Here”
Brown Institute at Columbia 2950 Broadway, New York, NY, United StatesQueer & "Here" From hookup apps to investigative reporting, community-building to historical archiving, the Internet has transformed queer experience and visibility. What have these changes wrought? What gains? What losses? In a free-wheeling and frank conversation, Zach Stafford, editor-in-chief of the U.S.’s oldest LGBTQ news magazine, The Advocate, and Jack Halberstam, queer scholar and professor
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Visual Literacy Module
607C in Pulitzer Hall, Columbia UniversityThe Brown institute is offering a three-session workshop on Visual Literacy, designed for journalism students to build vocabularies and practical skills around visual design through lectures, discussions, and hands-on sessions. You will walk away with a basic understanding of design principles and an overview of the graphics editor Adobe Illustrator. In the workshop you will
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Mapping Module 4 – Annotating a Map in Illustrator
Brown Institute at Columbia 2950 Broadway, New York, NY, United StatesNews unfolds in places and every newsworthy event is shaped by the details of location. Those details might include the specifics of a neighborhood as it is today or of the history leading to its current configurations. With the popularization of cartography, anyone with a computer and an internet connection can make a map, yet
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Lunchtime Discussion with Andrew Zolli & Trevor Hammond, Planet
Brown Institute at Columbia 2950 Broadway, New York, NY, United StatesJoin us on Wednesday, 3/6 at 12pm for a lunchtime discussion with Andrew Zolli from Planet, a satellite image provider. Remote sensing dates back to the 1858, when cameras were carried by balloons to take aerial images of the earth. Building on these early capture techniques, satellites and advancements in image capture have enabled a
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Measuring Crime: Behind the Statistics
Brown Institute at Columbia 2950 Broadway, New York, NY, United StatesAbstract: In 1915, the Chicago City Council asked statistician Edith Abbott to report “upon the frequency of murder, assault, burglary, robbery, theft and like crimes in Chicago." Her report, drawing on published and unpublished statistics from the courts, probation office, house of correction, and police department, set the stage for subsequent collections and evaluations of
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Magic Grant Information Session
Brown Institute at Stanford 355 Serra Mall, Stanford, CAWe’ll go over a brief overview of the Brown Institute’s history and work, and give an outline of our Magic Grants program and policies. Open office hours will also be held through February and March (except February 8) in Gates 176, Fridays 1:30-4. Please email Ann Grimes to confirm or request an alternate time.