• Base Camp 2018

    Brown Institute at Stanford 355 Serra Mall, Stanford, CA

    The Brown Institute for Media Innovation invites you to apply to the Media Innovation Base Camp taking place on March 3-4, 2018 at Stanford University. The Media Innovation Base Camp offers a great starting point for entrepreneurial students who want to explore the interplay between story and technology. All travel and lodging expenses will be covered

  • Transparency Series Workshop: Augmented Reality

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

    The storytelling capacity with AR is enormous, although the toolsets are still a bit hard to use. Join members from Etsy and the New York Times to get up-and-running with augmented reality, and spend the day building a story prototype utilizing the technology. Apply for the workshop

  • Alternative Capturing Techniques for 3D Storytelling

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

    The Brown Institute is pleased to announce another training session related to Augmented Reality (AR) and Virtual Reality (VR) -- this one is brought to you by our own Rosalie Yu. Alternative Capturing Techniques for 3D Storytelling What can our phone cameras capture besides 2D images? How can you reconstruct a world in 3D using these

  • Journocoders

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

    For the second Journocoders NYC, we’ll be exploring the web-based coding notebook service Observable. This is a fairly new online platform, but Observable notebooks are already being used to produce lightweight interactive explainers and live code samples. If you’ve ever used Jupyter Notebooks, Observable may feel familiar – except that it’s for JavaScript code instead

  • Journocoders NYC

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

    Journocoders NYC is a monthly meetup for journalists and others working in the media to learn and share technical skills for use in their reporting. That might be data analysis as part of an investigation, scraping data from government websites, building data visualisations to better tell a story, or something else entirely. RSVP HERE For

  • Journocoders NYC

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

    Journocoders NYC is a monthly meetup for journalists and others working in the media to learn and share technical skills for use in their reporting. That might be data analysis as part of an investigation, scraping data from government websites, building data visualisations to better tell a story, or something else entirely. This month Journocoders

  • Photography in Collaboration: Migration and Religion

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

    Magnum Foundation is producing a project development laboratory with the Brown Institute for Media Innovation on September 28 and 29, 2018 that will bring together twelve photographers and their collaborators who are all working on projects related to migration. By gathering a diverse group of practitioners and experts, the lab will create a space for

  • 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 your data-driven story, and colleagues to learn from your work. But until now, reproducibility has required programming. Workbench is a new platform for data journalism

  • 2018-2019 SPEAKER SERIES: FELICE FRANKEL

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

    SCIENCE PHOTOGRAPHER & MIT RESEARCH SCIENTIST On January 30, the Brown Institute welcomes celebrated science photographer and MIT Research Scientist Felice Frankel. She will offer a masterclass on "Image and Meaning" and discuss her new book "Picturing Science and Engineering" (MIT Press) in which she offers a guide for creating science images that are both

  • 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 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 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

  • 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

  • Statistics Breakfast with Mark Hansen (Thursdays in February and March 2021)

    Virtual

    Some of the biggest stories of 2020 were statistical. We tracked exponential curves as COVID-19 spread across the country. On the 50th anniversary of Earth Day, we reassessed the pace of climate change. And after the 2020 Election, the country debated whether any of the then-President’s claims about voter fraud could be true, attempting to

  • Statistics Breakfast with Mark Hansen (Thursdays in February and March 2021)

    Virtual

    Some of the biggest stories of 2020 were statistical. We tracked exponential curves as COVID-19 spread across the country. On the 50th anniversary of Earth Day, we reassessed the pace of climate change. And after the 2020 Election, the country debated whether any of the then-President’s claims about voter fraud could be true, attempting to

  • Statistics Breakfast with Mark Hansen (Thursdays in February and March 2021)

    Virtual

    Some of the biggest stories of 2020 were statistical. We tracked exponential curves as COVID-19 spread across the country. On the 50th anniversary of Earth Day, we reassessed the pace of climate change. And after the 2020 Election, the country debated whether any of the then-President’s claims about voter fraud could be true, attempting to

  • Statistics Breakfast with Mark Hansen (Thursdays in February and March 2021)

    Virtual

    Some of the biggest stories of 2020 were statistical. We tracked exponential curves as COVID-19 spread across the country. On the 50th anniversary of Earth Day, we reassessed the pace of climate change. And after the 2020 Election, the country debated whether any of the then-President’s claims about voter fraud could be true, attempting to

  • Volumetric capture and immersive technologies – primer

    Virtual

    What are the differences between AR, VR, and MR? What are some options out there for creating and publishing immersive content? In this session, we'll map the current landscape of immersive and volumetric technologies and clarify essential terminology. About the series The Brown Institute is pleased to announce the launch of Volumetric Reporting, supported by

  • Columbia Hacking for Humanity

    Columbia University

    Hacking for Humanity is an opportunity to initiate and get traction for startup ideas that are focused on solving a problem for people and/or the planet. There are many terms