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  • Transparency Series Seminar: Polling with Amanda Cox

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

    Join us for a discussion with Amanda Cox from the Upshot at the New York Times who will discuss polling and its importance in the political races. As the 2018

  • Transparency Series Workshop: Polling with FiveThirtyEight

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

    The first workshop in the Transparency Series takes you through techniques for looking at one or more polls over time. Join Janie Velencia and Dhrumil Mehta who lead 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

  • Media Innovation Seminar: Whither VR? with Kate Parsons and Ben Vance

    Brown Institute at Stanford 355 Serra Mall, Stanford, CA

    Video artist and educator Kate Parsons and VR Veteran Ben Vance explore art and design through emerging technology at FLOAT, a collaborative entity focusing on the intersection of art and interactivity. They will share tips on how their team creates evocative, nuanced art experiences using cutting-edge VR technology.

  • Blockchain in Journalism: Promise and Practice

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

    The Brown Institute and the Tow Center have collaborated on an event for students, reporters, editors, scholars, and entrepreneurs about the current state of blockchain technology and how it can

  • Opening Up Research for the Greater Good? Ethics, Privacy, and Data

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

    In the current political climate, opening up access to research and research data can be both a moral imperative and a careless decision that puts the lives and livelihood of

  • 2018-2019 Speaker Series: Google’s Simon Rogers

    Packard 101, Stanford University 350 Serra Mall, Stanford, CA, United States

    RSVP In the run-up to the midterm elections, Google’s data editor, Simon Rogers, will join the Brown Institute at Stanford for a conversation about his book “Facts are Sacred” as

  • Media Innovation Seminar: On Algorithmic Bias with Jeff Larson

    Brown Institute at Stanford 355 Serra Mall, Stanford, CA

    Larson, formerly a Senior Reporter for ProPublica and now co-founder of TBA, a new journalistic site that will report on how algorithms work and influence media. In his talk Larson

  • Reproducible Data Journalism without Code

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

    Join Krishna Bharat, creator of Google News and Jonathan Stray, designer of Workbench to discuss reproducible data journalism without code. Reproducibility allows readers and journalists to see how you produced

  • Distinguished Lectures in Computational Innovation: Dr. Eric Xing

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

    At 4:00 p.m. on the second Thursday of each month in the Brown Institute for Media Innovation (2nd Floor, Pulitzer Hall), the Distinguished Lectures in Computational Innovation series will highlight

  • Brown 2018-2019 Speaker Series: Data Visualization at The New York Times

    Packard 101, Stanford University 350 Serra Mall, Stanford, CA, United States

    New York Times graphics editor Kevin Quealy will join the Brown Institute for Media innovation in conversation about innovations in data visualization and his work at The Upshot, the Times’s

  • Transparency Series Workshop: Voice Interfaces with Washington Post & NPR

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

    Authoring experiences for a voice assistant or smart speaker is a combination of several distinct skillsets. Some conversational interfaces are driven by keywords, depending on users stating specific terms, while

  • Transparency Series Seminar: Reporting on Devices with Surya Mattu

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

    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

  • Knowing Together – Exhibition

    Offit Gallery | Teachers College 525 West 120th Street Russell Hall 3th floor, New York City, NY, United States

    Knowing 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