Distinguished Lectures in Computational Innovation featuring Stephanie Hankey, Tactical Tech

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

"Go to The Glass Room. If Black Mirror Had a Showroom, This Would Be It." - Baratunde Thurston Nearly 150,000 people in 30 countries have visited the Glassroom; an interactive public intervention reflecting on the impact of technology on society. As the doors of the Glassroom open in San Francisco, its co-curator Stephanie Hankey gives

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 because they can reveal patterns and trends hidden behind the numbers we encounter in our lives. Good charts make us smarter—if we know how to

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 will introduce and discuss the ways in which textual materials (news articles, government records, social media, and other primary sources) can be worked with as

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 the history leading to its current configurations. Alongside the development of web technologies, journalistic organizations have incorporated web-based maps to enhance reader engagement with stories.

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 history leading to its current configurations. Alongside the development of web technologies, journalistic organizations have incorporated web-based maps to enhance reader engagement with stories.

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 narratives of how the world is structured, including how information flows and spreads, both within and outside of communities. The platform is host to policy

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 how these forces operate, engaging the underlying computational tools and techniques. At the same time, the ways journalists understand the world and communicate their observations

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 in Computational Innovation at the Brown Institute on February 13th, 2020. About Travis Oliphant Travis E. Oliphant is a Founder and CEO/CTO of Quansight, an

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

Brown Speaker Series featuring Sean Rameswaram, Host of Vox’s Today, Explained

Cypress Auditorium, Allen Extension 420 Via Palou Mall, Stanford, CA, United States

The Brown Institute is excited to welcome Sean Rameswaram, host of Today, Explained, Vox’s daily explainer podcast. As advertised by Vox, Today, Explained is your all killer, no filler, Monday to Friday news. Sean, a veteran of the podcast space, will discuss Vox’s novel approach to their daily show and will join Brown Institute Director

The Green New Deal: Shaping A Public Imagination with Kim Stanley Robinson

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

Can climate fiction help overcome political friction? When climate change is the focus of both fiction and nonfiction, dystopia tends to rule. It’s not hard to see why, given that 30 years of efforts to push past fossil fuels have barely shifted the global energy mix and impacts on humans and nature mount as vulnerable

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 an important tool for finding stories. Also, outlets like The New York Times, The Washington Post, and FiveThirtyEight are publishing data visualizations that push the

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. To join, please click the link below: https://zoom.us/j/900839288 Or iPhone one-tap : US: +16468769923,,900839288# or +16699006833,,900839288# Or Telephone: Dial(for higher quality, dial a number based

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. To join, please click the link below: https://zoom.us/j/861228398 Or iPhone one-tap : US: +16468769923,,861228398# or +16699006833,,861228398# Or Telephone: Dial(for higher quality, dial a number based