The Human-computer Interaction group at Stanford University presents Arrowhead, a story that will be collaboratively written by Tom Kealey (Jones Lecturer of the Creative Writing department), Chris Baty (founder of NaNoWriMo), and people
HGB’s Trust Donates $15 Million for College Prep
From the NY Times ArtsBeat Blog: “Helen Gurley Brown didn’t care only about the Cosmo girl. She was also concerned with underserved children in New York City. As a result, her
Brown Institute “All Hands” Meeting, Columbia University
Both halves of the Brown Institute met at Columbia University for its quarterly “All Hands” meeting. It was a day of presentations and discussions. A full house, with grants and
The Declassification Engine in Poynter
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Robust detection of hyper-local events from geotagged social media data
Architecture of our local event detection system. Including data collector, time-series builder, Gaussian Process regression model, alert engine and classifier. Arrows indicate input and output flow of each module. Authors
Brown Fellow Iubel joins ONA13 Student Newsroom
The Online News Association announced the members of its ONA13 Student Newsroom. Over 100 students applied from around the world, and Brown Fellow Nikolas Iubel was one of the 38 selected.
Steve Lohr named 2013-2014 Brown Fellow
Steve Lohr was a graduate of the School of Journalism in 1975 and now reports on technology, business and economics for the New York Times. In 2013, he was part of the
Making Sense of Cities Using Social Media: Requirements for Hyper-Local Data Aggregation Tools
Examples of geo-tagged social media data visualizations mockups. Clockwise: geo-tagged topic groupings, keywords appearance graphs, volume graph and heat map Authors Schwartz, R., Naaman M., Matni, Z. Abstract As more