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  • How Charts Lie – A Talk by Alberto Cairo

    Lecture Hall, Pulitzer Hall 2950 Broadway, New York, NY, United States

    We’ve all heard that a picture is worth a thousand words, but what if we don’t understand what we’re looking at? Charts, infographics, and diagrams are ubiquitous. They are useful

  • The Transparency Series – Natural Language Processing

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

    Presenter Allison Parrish, NYU Workshop Description Much like other forms of data, documents and text provide enormous potential as a form of data to be analyzed and visualized. This workshop

  • Mapping Data Flows Flier

    Mapping Data Flows – How the Largest Tech Firms Use Your Data

    International Affairs Building 1501 420 W 118th St, New York, NY, United States

    Join John Battelle — Senior Research Scholar and Adjunct Professor at SIPA, and Co-Founder & CEO of Recount Media — and a team of researchers from the Brown Institute for

  • Points Unknown Mapping Module I: Intro to Mapping / QGIS

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

    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

  • Points Unknown Mapping Module II: Annotated Maps / Illustrator

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

    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

  • Points Unknown Mapping Module III: Web Maps / Mapbox.js

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

    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 Transparency Series – Reporting on Twitter

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

    Presenter Craig Silverman, BuzzFeed Workshop Description Twitter is not just a source of updates from friends and happenings in the local community. Instead, it is a dense network embedded with

  • The Transparency Series – Artificial Intelligence

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

    Presenter John Keefe, Quartz Workshop Description Data, code and algorithms are changing systems of power in our world, often without sufficient critical assessment or accountability. Today’s journalists need to understand

  • Distinguished Lecture in Computational Innovation – Travis Oliphant

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

    The Brown Institute and the Foundations for Research Computing program welcomes Travis Oliphant, CEO at OpenTeams and Quansight, founder of Anaconda, and creator of NumPy, to deliver a Distinguished Lecture

  • Immersive Storytelling – Photogrammetry & Augmented Reality

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

    From augmented, mixed and virtual reality, to 3D storytelling, immersive technologies provide new opportunities for journalists to broaden their stories and engage readers. While these technologies have been deployed in

  • The Transparency Series – Data Visualization

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

    Presenter The Pudding Workshop Description 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

  • Magic Grant Information Session (Columbia)

    Online Webinar NY

    The Brown Institute is pleased to announce our first Magic Grant Information Session taking place virtually for the Columbia side of the Brown Institute on March 10, 2020 at 4:30PM.

  • Magic Grant Information Session (Stanford)

    Online Webinar NY

    The Brown Institute is pleased to announce our first Magic Grant Information Session taking place at Stanford Engineering via a virtual webinar on March 12, 2020 at 4:30PM. To join

  • Magic Grant Information Session (Columbia)

    Online Webinar NY

    The Brown Institute is pleased to announce our second Magic Grant Information Session taking place virtually for the Columbia side of the Brown Institute on March 26, 2020 at 4:30PM.

  • Magic Grant Information Session

    Zoom Meeting

    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

  • Magic Grant Information Session

    Zoom Meeting

    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

  • Magic Grant Information Session

    Zoom Meeting

    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

  • The Transparency Series – Political Polling

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

    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