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April 2020
Magic Grant Information Session
The Brown Institute is hosting virtual Magic Grant Information Sessions taking place each Thursday on Zoom at 4:30PM EST. To join, please use the link below: https://zoom.us/j/911667097 Password: 751054 If you’re interested in learning more about our Magic Grant offerings, come to our upcoming information session where you can find out: The types of projects we’re interested in supporting The various types of support we offer to grantees & fellows Eligibility guidelines How our staff can help you develop your…
Find out more »Magic Grant Information Session
The Brown Institute is hosting virtual Magic Grant Information Sessions taking place each Thursday on Zoom at 4:30PM EST. To join, please use the link below: https://zoom.us/j/911667097 Password: 751054 If you’re interested in learning more about our Magic Grant offerings, come to our upcoming information session where you can find out: The types of projects we’re interested in supporting The various types of support we offer to grantees & fellows Eligibility guidelines How our staff can help you develop your…
Find out more »Magic Grant Information Session
The Brown Institute is hosting virtual Magic Grant Information Sessions taking place each Thursday on Zoom at 4:30PM EST. To join, please use the link below: https://zoom.us/j/911667097 Password: 751054 If you’re interested in learning more about our Magic Grant offerings, come to our upcoming information session where you can find out: The types of projects we’re interested in supporting The various types of support we offer to grantees & fellows Eligibility guidelines How our staff can help you develop your…
Find out more »The Transparency Series – Political Polling
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 samples, and leading to the detailed models that are employed today. All the while, the workshop will emphasize how to find and tell interesting, novel…
Find out more »Magic Grant Information Session
The Brown Institute is hosting virtual Magic Grant Information Sessions taking place each Thursday on Zoom at 4:30PM EST. To join, please use the link below: https://zoom.us/j/911667097 Password: 751054 If you’re interested in learning more about our Magic Grant offerings, come to our upcoming information session where you can find out: The types of projects we’re interested in supporting The various types of support we offer to grantees & fellows Eligibility guidelines How our staff can help you develop your…
Find out more »May 2020
Magic Grant Information Session
The Brown Institute is hosting virtual Magic Grant Information Sessions taking place each Thursday on Zoom at 4:30PM EST. To join, please use the link below: https://zoom.us/j/911667097 Password: 751054 If you’re interested in learning more about our Magic Grant offerings, come to our upcoming information session where you can find out: The types of projects we’re interested in supporting The various types of support we offer to grantees & fellows Eligibility guidelines How our staff can help you develop your…
Find out more »Magic Grant Information Session
The Brown Institute is hosting virtual Magic Grant Information Sessions taking place each Thursday on Zoom at 4:30PM EST. To join, please use the link below: https://zoom.us/j/911667097 Password: 751054 If you’re interested in learning more about our Magic Grant offerings, come to our upcoming information session where you can find out: The types of projects we’re interested in supporting The various types of support we offer to grantees & fellows Eligibility guidelines How our staff can help you develop your…
Find out more »October 2020
2020 Brown Institute Showcase
Join the Event! The event features a unique mix of journalists and technologists, all funded through the 2019-20 Magic Grant program — this is their moment to show off a year’s worth of work. The event will take place on a unique virtual platform allowing visitors to mingle with directors and staff, and meet individually with grantees while they demo their projects. The projects this year are incredibly strong. Each one addresses an important contemporary question, be it political, cultural…
Find out more »Local Time: A Challenge for Visualization with Johanna Drucker, UCLA
Each year, the Brown Institute sponsors talks that explore the intersection between media and technology. This year we have three virtual presentations lined up, each challenging us to think about data and computation in new ways. Each talk is by researchers outside of journalism, and yet we have a great deal to learn from their approaches to data and computation. Local Time: A Challenge for Visualization Register The term “local” usually suggests a specific geographical spot, but it also has…
Find out more »December 2020
Data Feminism with Catherine D’Ignazio, MIT and Lauren Klein, Emory University
Each year, the Brown Institute sponsors talks that explore the intersection between media and technology. This year we have three virtual presentations lined up, each challenging us to think about data and computation in new ways. Each talk is by researchers outside of journalism, and yet we have a great deal to learn from their approaches to data and computation. Data Feminism Join Now! As data are increasingly mobilized in the service of governments and corporations, their unequal conditions of…
Find out more »January 2021
Roles for Computing in Social Justice with Rediet Abebe, Harvard and UC Berkeley
Each year, the Brown Institute sponsors talks that explore the intersection between media and technology. This year we have three virtual presentations lined up, each challenging us to think about data and computation in new ways. Each talk is by researchers outside of journalism, and yet we have a great deal to learn from their approaches to data and computation. Roles for Computing in Social Justice Register to attend the lecture Recent scholarship in AI ethics warns that computing work…
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