Points Unknown – QGIS 04

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

Points Unknown, a workshop series designed for journalism students, is an eight-week series to introduce students to spatial investigative and visualization techniques. News 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

Generative AI Dine + Design

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

In the last year, new generative AI platforms have made headlines. Large Language Models (LLMs) like ChatGPT, Bard, LLaMA and claude have been compared on their abilities to perform knowledge and reasoning tasks (answering questions, solving problems with external tools), language manipulation (generating summaries, translating text, “reversioning” stories), and common data analyses (structuring data, tagging

Data Visualization Workshop with The Pudding

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

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 an important tool for finding

Generative AI Dine + Design

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

In the last year, new generative AI platforms have made headlines. Large Language Models (LLMs) like ChatGPT, Bard, LLaMA and claude have been compared on their abilities to perform knowledge and reasoning tasks (answering questions, solving problems with external tools), language manipulation (generating summaries, translating text, “reversioning” stories), and common data analyses (structuring data, tagging

Rethinking Crime Reporting

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

The crime beat has long been leveraged by American newsrooms to drive traffic, generate revenue, and fulfill the duty of informing the public. While the familiar narrative of perpetrators committing crimes consistently captures the public’s attention, these stories rarely produce the safer communities promised by being better-informed citizens, especially for the individuals and communities historically

News Products and Entrepreneurship Weekend!

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

Register to attend! Join the Brown Institute for a unique opportunity to learn about the latest trends in news product development! Our weekend-long event, taking place November 11 and 12, is led by industry leaders Dalit Shalom, Lead Product Designer at the New York Times, and Justin Hendrix, CEO and Editor of Tech Policy Press.

Generative AI Dine + Design

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

In the last year, new generative AI platforms have made headlines. Large Language Models (LLMs) like ChatGPT, Bard, LLaMA and claude have been compared on their abilities to perform knowledge and reasoning tasks (answering questions, solving problems with external tools), language manipulation (generating summaries, translating text, “reversioning” stories), and common data analyses (structuring data, tagging

Venture Challenge Information Session

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

The 2024 Startup Columbia Venture Challenge is open for submissions! For the past three years, Brown has sponsored a "Media Track" for this competition. This is designed for students, recent

Exploring AI Threats to Electoral Integrity

Livestream and SIPA

2024 will be a landmark election year in at least two ways. First, more than a quarter of the countries in the world, representing a third of global population, and

Queer Data: Who Counts?

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

Kevin Guyan will join CJS for a talk on "Queer Data". Guyan, soon to be a Fellow at the University of Edinburgh, has written extensively on data collection and LGBTQ communities. The first step in so many reporting projects is a data set, and even our own US Census Bureau has proposed asking questions about Sexual Orientation and Gender

Venture Challenge Information Session

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

The 2024 Startup Columbia Venture Challenge is open for submissions! For the past three years, Brown has sponsored a "Media Track" for this competition. This is designed for students, recent