Brown Institute Mixer and Infosession

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

Drop by and learn about the Brown Institute's Magic Grants and other programs! The David and Helen Gurley Brown Institute for Media Innovation is a joint effort between Stanford’s School of Engineering and Columbia Journalism School. Each year, the Brown Institute awards close to $1M in grants to help you “follow your passion and experiment

Brown Institute Mixer and Infosession

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

Drop by and learn about the Brown Institute's Magic Grants and other programs! The David and Helen Gurley Brown Institute for Media Innovation is a joint effort between Stanford’s School of Engineering and Columbia Journalism School. Each year, the Brown Institute awards close to $1M in grants to help you “follow your passion and experiment

News Product Sprint

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

Join the Brown Institute for a unique opportunity to learn about the latest trends in news product development! Our two-weekend event, taking place on February 25-26 and March 1, is led by industry leaders Dalit Shalom, Lead Product Designer at the New York Times, and Julia Beizer, Chief Digital Officer at Bloomberg Media. This news

News Product Sprint

Columbia University

Join the Brown Institute for a unique opportunity to learn about the latest trends in news product development! Our two-weekend event, taking place on February 25-26 and March 1, is led by industry leaders Dalit Shalom, Lead Product Designer at the New York Times, and Julia Beizer, Chief Digital Officer at Bloomberg Media. This news

Lectures in Data Visualization: Cindy Xiong, UMass Amherst

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

Designs to Support Better Visual Data Communication Cindy Xiong, UMass Amherst Well-chosen data visualizations can lead to powerful and intuitive processing by a viewer, both for visual analytics and data storytelling. When badly chosen, visualizations leave important patterns opaque or misunderstood. So how can we design an effective visualization? I will share several empirical studies

Lectures in Data Visualization: Dominik Moritz, Carnegie Mellon University

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

The future of Data Science is Live and in the Browser Data science is a constantly evolving field, and as such, it is important to continually explore new ideas for improving the tools we use. In this talk, I will talk about two ideas that may change how and where we build these tools. First,

Matt Jones & Chris Wiggins Book Launch ‘How Data Happened’, featuring a Conversation with Julia Angwin

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

Join us for a spirited conversation with renowned data journalist Julia Angwin as she discusses How Data Happened: A History from the Age of Reason to the Age of Algorithms with  Matt Jones and Chris Wiggins of Columbia.  The book expands on the popular course the authors created and have taught for the past several

Lectures in Data Visualization: Arvind Satyanarayan

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

Intelligence Augmentation through the Lens of Interactive Data Visualization The rise of large language models has brought new urgency to the future of human + machine partnerships. In this talk, I will use three research threads on interactive data visualization to better understand the balance between automation and augmentation. First, I will describe how new

Lectures in Data Visualization: Jen Christiansen, Scientific American

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

Special Considerations for Science Graphics Jen Christiansen, Scientific American Science graphics are beholden to the same design principles as other types of graphics. But the information they hold is often the product of a process that a lot of people in your audience may not be familiar with. It's important to honor the fact that