Join the Brown Institute for a unique opportunity to learn about the latest trends in news product development! Our two-weekend event, taking place on February 25-26 and March 1, is led by industry leaders Dalit Shalom, Lead Product Designer at the New York Times, and Julia Beizer, Chief Digital Officer at Bloomberg Media. This news
Designs to Support Better Visual Data Communication Cindy Xiong, UMass Amherst Well-chosen data visualizations can lead to powerful and intuitive processing by a viewer, both for visual analytics and data storytelling. When badly chosen, visualizations leave important patterns opaque or misunderstood. So how can we design an effective visualization? I will share several empirical studies
The future of Data Science is Live and in the Browser Data science is a constantly evolving field, and as such, it is important to continually explore new ideas for improving the tools we use. In this talk, I will talk about two ideas that may change how and where we build these tools. First,
Join us for a spirited conversation with renowned data journalist Julia Angwin as she discusses How Data Happened: A History from the Age of Reason to the Age of Algorithms with Matt Jones and Chris Wiggins of Columbia. The book expands on the popular course the authors created and have taught for the past several
The Brown Institute for Media Innovation is pleased to host a visit to Columbia University by the U.S. Chief Data Scientist Denice Ross and Deputy U.S. Chief Data Scientist Dominique Duval-Diop. In a lecture on March 30, Ross and Duval-Diop will introduce the idea of “equitable data.” Through the Equitable Data Working Group, they have
