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SUMMARY:Art of Data Conference
DESCRIPTION:The Art of Data conference is an annual gathering of researchers\, practitioners\, artists\, and journalists\, to discuss issues related to data\, cities\, and visualization. It is organized by the Columbia University Libraries in collaboration with the Brown Institute for Media Innovation at the Journalism School. The conference will take place on April 4th from 3pm to 6pm\, followed by a small reception. \nThis year’s theme is Processing New York\, which emphasizes how we produce\, collect\, clean\, analyze\, and process the data that we use. For this iteration we are putting together three panels: one\, The Story of NYC\, which will deal with humanities related data; two\, Uncovered New York\, which will talk about data that is rarely collected (think rodents); and three NYC Data in Action\, in which we will examine the positive and negative effects of technology and data in the way we manage and live our cities. Each panel will have two speakers\, each one talking about their work for 20 minutes followed by a 20 minute Q&A. A rough schedule is outlined below. \n3:00 – 4:00pm NYC Data in Action \nChris Whong\, is a public-sector entrepreneur and civic technologist. As Founder and Director of the progressive digital services team NYC Planning Labs\, he promotes the use of agile methods\, human-centered design\, and open technology to build impactful tools at the NYC Department of City Planning. Chris is a leader in the NYC civic technology community\, and a former Code for America brigade leader. \nBen Wellington\, is the creator of I Quant NY\, a data science and policy blog that focuses on insights drawn from New York City’s public data\, and advocates for the expansion and improvement of that data. His data analysis has influenced local government policy including changes in NYC street infrastructure\, the way New Yorkers pay for cabs and the design of NYC subway vending machines\, and his talk on urban data was featured on TED. Ben holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science (Natural Language Processing) from New York University. \nPanel moderated by Kae Bara Kratcha\, Entrepreneurship & Social Science Librarian at Columbia University Libraries. \n4:00 – 5:00pm The Story of NYC \nRachel Egan\, is a Brooklyn-based artist and information scientist. Her creative practice includes coding\, drawing\, and needlework\, while her research is focused on applying semantic technologies and open access mechanisms to cultural object cataloging. She currently leads The Art Genome Project\, the classification system and technological framework that powers Artsy\, the leading platform for collecting and discovering art. Egan is a former Linked Open Data Fellow at the Whitney Museum of American Art\, a researcher for the Sol LeWitt Wall Drawings Catalogue Raisonné\, and has provided archival and data services for Artnet\, Gallerie degli Uffizi\, Gagsoian Gallery\, and Greene Naftali Gallery. She received her Bachelor of Liberal Arts from Sarah Lawrence College and Master of Library and Information Science from Pratt Institute. \nGrace Afsari-Mamagani\, is a doctoral student in English at NYU\, working on a dissertation that reads post-9/11 American fiction representing the lived experiences of marginalized communities as the site of a theory and ethics of interaction design for educational resources. In her teaching and research\, she centers the relationship between everyday information structures and long\, violent histories of colonialism and nation-building. She currently serves as a doctoral fellow in digital research and pedagogy with the NewYorkScapes research collaborative\, which seeks to build community at the intersection of cultural heritage\, spatial and urban studies\, and digital methods. Grace is a member of the 2018-2020 HASTAC Scholars cohort\, a former Polonsky-Brine digital humanities fellow at NYU\, a former MLA Connected Academics fellow\, and a recovering marketing agency project manager. Her professional interests include instructional design\, educational technology\, and digital project consulting. \nPanel moderated by Sophie Leveque\, Social Work & Social Science Librarian at Columbia University Libraries. \n5:00 – 6:00pm Uncovered New York \nJason Munshi-South\, is a Professor in the Department of Biological Sciences and the Louis Calder Center at Fordham University. His lab studies the ecological and evolutionary consequences of urbanization for wildlife populations\, with a particular focus on New York City. Of particular fascination for Jason are the rodents that live in and around our urban homes\, but his lab studies organisms ranging from mammals to lichens. \nGrga Basic\, is an Associate Research Scholar and Adjunct Assistant Professor at Graduate School of Architecture\, Planning and Preservation (GSAPP); his work and research focus on critical\, narrative\, and investigative cartography. He joined the Center for Resilient Cities and Landscapes (CRCL) in 2018\, coming from the Center for Spatial Research. At CRCL\, Grga acts as a mapping expert\, developing and overseeing spatial analysis and cartographic representations for all projects. At GSAPP\, Grga also co-teaches Points Unknown\, an interdisciplinary course focused on pairing journalistic techniques with design practices through spatial data analysis and visualization. Prior to joining GSAPP\, Grga held academic appointment at the Harvard Urban Theory Lab and worked as an architect at the Atelier Seraji in Paris. His cartographic representations have been exhibited at the Venice\, Hong Kong\, Shenzhen\, and Rotterdam Biennials of Architecture. \nPanel moderated by Wei Yin\, Research Support & Data Services Librarian.
URL:https://brown.columbia.edu/event/art-of-data-conference/
LOCATION:Brown Institute at Columbia\, 2950 Broadway\, New York\, NY\, 10027\, United States
CATEGORIES:Conferences
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SUMMARY:Distinguished Lectures in Computational Innovation: Dr. Gina Helfrich
DESCRIPTION:Join or Die: The Future of Computational Innovation and the End of the Academy as We Know It \nAcademia presently faces an existential crisis. Tenure-track positions are shrinking. Adjunct positions are on the rise. Scientific and technical fields are losing talent to lucrative industry jobs\, while humanities programs graduate a glut of doctorates whose career prospects in the field are slim. In this lecture\, Dr. Helfrich will argue that the rise of networked technologies and their spread into virtually every area of life and business pose a challenge to the existing structure of advanced degree programs in the United States. The future depends on the ability of academics to meet these challenges by breaking down research silos and coming together to leverage our collective strengths.About  \nAbout Gina Helfrich \nDr. Gina Helfrich is Director of Communications and Culture at NumFOCUS\, a non-profit that supports better science through open code. \nDr. Helfrich holds a Ph.D. in Philosophy from Emory University with a specialization in ethics and critical social theory. She is also the former Director of the Harvard College Women’s Center. After teaching and leading culture change programs at Harvard\, Dr. Helfrich moved to Austin\, Texas\, where she began working in the technology industry managing strategic programs and communications. She was co-founder of recruitHER\, a women-owned recruiting & consulting firm committed to making the tech industry more inclusive and diverse. At present\, she consults on diversity and inclusion for rapidly growing organizations\, in addition to her work for NumFOCUS. Dr. Helfrich is a vocal advocate for inclusion and diversity in tech and business and a frequent speaker on this subject; she has been a selected speaker at South By Southwest Interactive (SXSW) and the Texas Conference for Women. Despite having left academia\, Dr. Helfrich continues to engage with questions of ethics and technology as a practitioner in the tech industry. \nAbout the Distinguished Lectures in Computational Innovation\n \nAt 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 programmers\, data scientists\, and other practitioners from the private sector who lead cutting-edge technology initiatives such as Python\, C++\, and the Open Source Initiative. \nRegister Here
URL:https://brown.columbia.edu/event/distinguished-lectures-in-computational-innovation-dr-gina-helfrich/
LOCATION:Brown Institute at Columbia\, 2950 Broadway\, New York\, NY\, 10027\, United States
CATEGORIES:Distinguished Lecture Series
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SUMMARY:Transparency Series Seminar: Drone Photography by Josh Haner and Meaghan Looram\, New York Times
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Friday evening for our last Transparency Series seminar featuring Josh Haner\, staff photographer and the senior editor for photo technology\, in conversation with Meaghan Looram\, the Director of Photography at The New York Times. They will discuss previous drone project they’ve worked on together\, and the role of drones in Journalism. As with Virtual Reality\, drone journalism offers opportunities in data collection and visual representation afforded by few other technologies that are within the grasp of a typical newsroom. Drones\, or unmanned aerial systems\, provide a perspective that is truly unique. It seems to be good for providing a sense of scale (moving from the ground to a significant vantage point above some event or phenomenon). Drones can provide access to regions that are otherwise impossible to film. The artful\, informative deployment of drone photography and its role in journalism is the subject of this Transparency Series event. \nJosh Haner is a Staff Photographer and the Senior Editor for Photo Technology at The New York Times. In 2014\, he won the Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography for a photo essay documenting the recovery of a Boston Marathon bombing victim. \nMeaghan Looram is the Director of Photography at The New York Times. A graduate of Stanford University\, Ms. Looram has been an editor at The Times since 2005. She oversees The New York Times’ photographic coverage\, the news organization’s staff of 40 photo editors and 15 staff photographers\, as well as many of its most ambitious visual projects\, including “A Year at War”\, “One in 8 Million”\, “Carbon’s Casualties” and the annual Year in Pictures. \nFor registration and more information\, go to transparency.brown.columbia.edu \n  \n\n\n\n 
URL:https://brown.columbia.edu/event/transparency-series-seminar-drone-photography-2/
LOCATION:Brown Institute at Columbia\, 2950 Broadway\, New York\, NY\, 10027\, United States
CATEGORIES:Transparency Series
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SUMMARY:Transparency Series Workshop: Drone Photography
DESCRIPTION:Drones can provide access to regions that are otherwise impossible to film. The artful\, informative deployment of drone photography and its role in journalism is the subject of this Transparency Series event. On Saturday\, we will get our hands dirty and take a field trip north of NYC and give students the chance to both pilot small drones as well as stage shots from the robotic\, onboard camera. The workshop will be led by the USA Today Unmanned Aerial Systems Team led by Director Andy Scott. \nTo apply and for more information\, go to transparency.brown.columbia.edu
URL:https://brown.columbia.edu/event/transparency-series-workshop-drone-photography-2/
LOCATION:Brown Institute at Columbia\, 2950 Broadway\, New York\, NY\, 10027\, United States
CATEGORIES:Transparency Series
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SUMMARY:Journalism & Design: A Mini-Conference
DESCRIPTION:The Brown Institute for Media Innovation and the Delacorte Center for Magazine Journalism bring you this mini-conference of designers\, illustrators\, and visualizers to talk about the work they do\, how they think about it\, and how it relates to written journalism. Speakers include Remeike Forbes (Jacobin)\, Helen Yentus (Riverhead)\, Aviva Michaelov (The New Yorker)\, Lauren Tamaki (New York Times\, New York Magazine)\, Ellen Weinstein (Washington Post\, CJR)\, Jen Christiensen (Scientific American)\, and others. \nPlease RSVP to brwn.co/jd
URL:https://brown.columbia.edu/event/journalism-design-a-mini-conference/
LOCATION:Brown Institute at Columbia\, 2950 Broadway\, New York\, NY\, 10027\, United States
CATEGORIES:Conferences
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SUMMARY:Public Forum: Counting the Victims of Police and Extrajudicial Killings
DESCRIPTION:As part of the War On Crime Or War On The Poor? A Conference on Violence & Policing in the Philippines\, Latin America\, & the U.S. the Brown Institute for Media Innovation is co-sponsoring the Public Forum: Counting the Victims of Police & Extrajudicial Killings. Speakers include Patrick Ball (Human Rights Data Analysis Group)\, Ignacio Cano (State University of Rio de Janeiro)\, Catalina Perez Correa (Mexico’s war on crime and the use of Lethal Force by Federal Forces)\, and Divam Jain (Building data-driven tools to enhance police accountability). The panel will be moderated by Sheila Coronel (Graduate School of Journalism\, Columbia University). \nRSVP at http://bit.ly/CJSConf
URL:https://brown.columbia.edu/event/public-forum-counting-the-victims-of-police-and-extrajudicial-killings/
LOCATION:World Room\, Pulitzer Hall\, 2950 Broadway\, New York\, NY\, 10027\, United States
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