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SUMMARY:Free Expression in an Age of Surveillance: Measuring the “Chilling Effect”
DESCRIPTION:This panel is the second in a series of events examining the role that the First Amendment should play in assessing the lawfulness of government surveillance. The first panel addressed legal doctrine and the skepticism with which courts view the claim that surveillance “chills” free speech. This second panel will assess the chilling effect. Does surveillance chill speech and dissent? How so? And can we measure the chilling effect? \nThe panel answering those questions will include Jon Penney and Elizabeth Stoycheff\, two professors who’ve tried to quantify the chilling effect\, and Alex Abdo\, senior staff attorney at the Knight First Amendment Institute. \nFreedom of Expression in an Age of Surveillance: Measuring the “Chilling Effect” \nWednesday\, Nov. 14\, 2018\n6:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.\nReception to follow \nPulitzer Hall\, Brown Institute\nColumbia University \nFeaturing:\nAlex Abdo\, Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University\nThomas Kadri\, Yale Law School Information Society Project\nJon Penney\, Schulich School of Law\, Dalhousie University\nElizabeth Stoycheff\, Wayne State University \nHosted by the Brown Institute for Media Innovation at Columbia Journalism School\, Information Society Project at Yale Law School\, and the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University.
URL:https://brown.stanford.edu/event/free-expression-in-an-age-of-surveillance-measuring-the-chilling-effect/
LOCATION:Brown Institute at Columbia\, 2950 Broadway\, New York\, NY\, 10027\, United States
CATEGORIES:Panels & Seminars
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181113T163000
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SUMMARY:Brown 2018-2019 Speaker Series: Data Visualization at The New York Times
DESCRIPTION:New York Times graphics editor Kevin Quealy will join the Brown Institute for Media innovation in conversation about innovations in data visualization and his work at The Upshot\, the Times’s site about politics\, economics\, and everyday life. \n  \nRSVP is requested but not required.
URL:https://brown.stanford.edu/event/brown-2018-2019-speaker-series-data-visualization-at-the-new-york-times/
LOCATION:Packard 101\, Stanford University\, 350 Serra Mall\, Stanford\, CA\, 94305\, United States
CATEGORIES:Panels & Seminars
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181108T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181108T180000
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SUMMARY:Distinguished Lectures in Computational Innovation: Dr. Eric Xing
DESCRIPTION:At 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.  \nThis lecture features Dr. Eric Xing\, Professor\, Department of Machine Learning\, Carnegie Mellon University; Founder\, Chief Executive Officer\, and Chief Scientist\, Petuum\, Inc. \nThe event will include a presentation\, Question & Answer session\, and post-event networking reception.  \nDr. Eric P. Xing is Founder\, CEO and Chief Scientist at Petuum Inc. He is a Professor in the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University. He is also the Associate Department Head for Research of the Machine Learning Department and the Founding Director of the Center for Machine Learning and Health at CMU. For his distinguished contributions in AI/ML\, he was elected a Fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI). \nDr. Xing is a thought and innovation leader in Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence. His principal research interests are in the development of machine learning and statistical methodology and large-scale computational system and architectures\, for solving problems involving automated learning\, reasoning\, and decision-making in high-dimensional\, multimodal\, and dynamic complex systems. His pioneering research has created numerous AI/ML foundational techniques\, such as the Parameter Server\, distance metric learning\, distributed network inference\, dynamic networks\, dynamic nonparametric Bayesian models\, spectral graphical models\, and variational inference. He has authored or co-authored over 300 publications\, while receiving multiple Best Paper Awards. \nDr. Xing is a board member of the International Machine Learning Society\, program chair and general chair of the International Conference of Machine Learning (ICML)\, and a former member of the U.S. Department of Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Information Science and Technology (ISAT) Advisory group. He is the recipient of numerous awards including: The National Science Foundation (NSF) Career Award; Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship in Computer Science; United States Air Force Office of Scientific Research Young Investigator Award; and the IBM Open Collaborative Research Faculty Award. \nRegister Here
URL:https://brown.stanford.edu/event/distinguished-lectures-in-computational-innovation-dr-eric-xing/
LOCATION:Brown Institute at Columbia\, 2950 Broadway\, New York\, NY\, 10027\, United States
CATEGORIES:Distinguished Lecture Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181108T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181108T140000
DTSTAMP:20260403T180219
CREATED:20181019T132831Z
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SUMMARY:Reproducible Data Journalism without Code
DESCRIPTION:Join Krishna Bharat\, creator of Google News and Jonathan Stray\, designer of Workbench to discuss reproducible data journalism without code. \nReproducibility 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 that combines scraping\, cleanup\, analysis\, and visualization in one app\, without any coding required. In this hands-on workshop you’ll learn how to use Workbench to scrape pages\, load social media data\, clean campaign finance records\, create live updating charts\, and more. \nRegister
URL:https://brown.stanford.edu/event/reproducible-data-journalism-without-code/
LOCATION:Brown Institute at Columbia\, 2950 Broadway\, New York\, NY\, 10027\, United States
CATEGORIES:Trainings
ORGANIZER;CN="Brown Institute @ Columbia":MAILTO:browninstitute@columbia.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181106T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181106T133000
DTSTAMP:20260403T180219
CREATED:20180921T174956Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180921T181553Z
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SUMMARY:Media Innovation Seminar: On Algorithmic Bias with Jeff Larson
DESCRIPTION:Larson\, formerly a Senior Reporter for ProPublica and now co-founder of TBA\, a new journalistic site that will report on how algorithms work and influence media. In his talk Larson will discuss the formation of his new venture and explain what innovations are needed when it comes to understanding how algorithms work and influence the information we receive.
URL:https://brown.stanford.edu/event/media-innovation-seminar-on-algorithmic-bias-with-jeff-larson/
LOCATION:Brown Institute at Stanford\, 355 Serra Mall\, Stanford\, CA\, 94305
ORGANIZER;CN="Brown Institute @ Stanford":MAILTO:brown_institute@stanford.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181030T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181030T173000
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SUMMARY:2018-2019 Speaker Series: Google's Simon Rogers
DESCRIPTION:RSVP\nIn the run-up to the midterm elections\, Google’s data editor\, Simon Rogers\, will join the Brown Institute at Stanford for a conversation about his book “Facts are Sacred” as well as his work with Electionland\, which brings together teams of data journalists\, fact-checkers and social media experts to monitor polls in real-time.
URL:https://brown.stanford.edu/event/brown-2018-2019-speaker-series-googles-simon-rogers/
LOCATION:Packard 101\, Stanford University\, 350 Serra Mall\, Stanford\, CA\, 94305\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181030T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181030T133000
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SUMMARY:Media Innovation Seminar: Twitch 4 News? with Phoebe Connelly and Joey Marburger
DESCRIPTION:Phoebe Connelly\, Deputy Video Editor\, and Joey Marburger\, Head of Product at The Washington Post\, will discuss opportunities to use gaming platforms for the distribution of news\, and take us inside the Post’s new Twitch channel.
URL:https://brown.stanford.edu/event/media-innovation-seminar-twitch-4-news-with-phoebe-connelly-and-joey-marburger/
LOCATION:Brown Institute at Stanford\, 355 Serra Mall\, Stanford\, CA\, 94305
ORGANIZER;CN="Brown Institute @ Stanford":MAILTO:brown_institute@stanford.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181025T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181025T193000
DTSTAMP:20260403T180219
CREATED:20181016T133153Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20181016T133153Z
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SUMMARY:Opening Up Research for the Greater Good? Ethics\, Privacy\, and Data
DESCRIPTION:In the current political climate\, opening up access to research and research data can be both a moral imperative and a careless decision that puts the lives and livelihood of the most vulnerable at risk. In this panel discussion and roundtable\, three scholars will discuss the social and ethical responsibilities of gathering\, curating\, and sharing data from very different perspectives. \nPresentation descriptions below. Register Here \n\nManan Ahmed\, “Torn Apart/Separados: Visualizing Data for/with Critical Eyes”\nMy talk will center on the team-led data-curation and visualization project from spring and summer 2018 which focused on the activities of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) after the announcement of a policy of family-separation at the southwest borders of United States. I will discuss the ways in which scholars and activists used the Data was used to reveal a hidden cartography of forced separation as well as the ethical concerns of data-curation which led them to re-think the role of visualization in public awareness campaigns. My talk will rely on conversations\, ideas\, expertise\, and intellectual labor of the entire team behind #TornApart/Separados fully credited at the site: http://xpmethod.plaintext.in/torn-apart/credits.html. \nLaurie Allen\, “Open Data\, Data Rescue\, and Risk”\nIn this talk\, Laurie will return to the fall and winter of 2016/2017 when she joined with collaborators in the Penn Libraries\, Penn Program in Environmental Humanities\, and many others to start Data Refuge. Over the first 6 months of 2017\, they supported more than 50 events around the country in an effort to document and save federally produced Environmental and Climate Data. Now nearly two years after that project began\, she’ll reflect on those data saving efforts\, risks\, and the responses to risk. \nMary Marshall Clark\, “Documenting Truth in a Time of Denial and Surveillance: Ethical Dilemmas Oral Historians Face”\nDrawing upon political oral history projects conducted by the Columbia Center for Oral History\, and mentoring Oral History MA students who use oral history to document the historical present\, I will talk about the challenges of using oral history to address the human rights challenges of our times. As oral history moves into a deeper engagement with human rights and commits to making its archives transparent and relevant\, we are also faced with new levels of technical surveillance\, monitoring and danger in using named sources. Simultaneously our ethics demand that we use our increasing ability to work across borders\, often under the radar\, to collect narratives and build historical evidence towards the goal of achieving historical truths that counter mass media\, and/or government accounts. How do we protect ourselves\, and our sources\, in doing this crucial work? \n 
URL:https://brown.stanford.edu/event/opening-up-research-for-the-greater-good-ethics-privacy-and-data/
LOCATION:Brown Institute at Columbia\, 2950 Broadway\, New York\, NY\, 10027\, United States
CATEGORIES:Panels & Seminars
ORGANIZER;CN="Brown Institute @ Columbia":MAILTO:browninstitute@columbia.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181023T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181023T133000
DTSTAMP:20260403T180219
CREATED:20180921T043518Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180921T180431Z
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SUMMARY:Media Innovation Seminar: Technology is threatening our democracy. How do we save it? with Gideon Lichfield
DESCRIPTION:Gideon Lichfield is Editor-in-Chief of the MIT Technology Review. In this conversation\, he will discuss issues at the intersection of technology\, ethics and democracy.
URL:https://brown.stanford.edu/event/gideon-lichfield-technology-is-threatening-our-democracy-how-do-we-save-it/
LOCATION:Brown Institute at Stanford\, 355 Serra Mall\, Stanford\, CA\, 94305
CATEGORIES:Media Innovators Speakers Series
ORGANIZER;CN="Brown Institute @ Stanford":MAILTO:brown_institute@stanford.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181022T153000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181022T170000
DTSTAMP:20260403T180219
CREATED:20181012T171331Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20181012T171517Z
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SUMMARY:Technology’s Role in Media\, Data Journalism\, and Fighting Fake News? A Session in the Fast Company Innovation Festival
DESCRIPTION:The media industry has never been under more scrutiny than it is today. Technology\, a primary culprit in the proliferation of fake news\, can also be used to provide clarity for the public. And we’ve started to witness the democratization of large-scale data analysis and connected data methods that provide journalists the opportunity to employ new technologies to check their facts. Join this in-depth talk with Columbia Journalism School\, New York University\, the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ)\, and Neo4j\, the leading provider of graph database technology\, and learn how in this day and age of big data\, data leaks\, and social media\, technology is helping uncover potentially world-changing stories. Used by groundbreaking organizations and media outlets like the ICIJ and NBC News\, Neo4j’s graph technology is capable of analyzing gargantuan amounts of data to pull out connecting relationships to probe for fake news. \nTickets at https://fastcompany.swoogo.com/innovationfestival18/tickets
URL:https://brown.stanford.edu/event/technologys-role-in-media-data-journalism-and-fighting-fake-news-a-session-in-the-fast-company-innovation-festival/
LOCATION:Brown Institute at Columbia\, 2950 Broadway\, New York\, NY\, 10027\, United States
CATEGORIES:Panels & Seminars
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ORGANIZER;CN="Brown Institute @ Columbia":MAILTO:browninstitute@columbia.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181019T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181019T170000
DTSTAMP:20260403T180219
CREATED:20181017T134818Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20181017T134841Z
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SUMMARY:Blockchain in Journalism: Promise and Practice
DESCRIPTION:The Brown Institute and the Tow Center have collaborated on an event for students\, reporters\, editors\, scholars\, and entrepreneurs about the current state of blockchain technology and how it can be applied to journalism. For practitioners in media\, Blockchain is in vogue today as a potential solution to the industry’s every-day problems and tasks\, such as sustainable business model development\, content verification\, news archiving\, or digital advertisement tracking. In the last few months alone token-based initiatives have been launched\, smart contracts have been deployed\, and new problems have emerged in relation to what constitutes a sustainable network of stakeholders. \nPanelists invited Tow and Brown will discuss issues of business model integration\, ethical applications\, and innovative technology design in relation to blockchain. Each panel will be followed by audience Q&A to facilitate deliberative environment in which the seemingly arcane phenomenon of blockchain can be openly demystified and discussed.
URL:https://brown.stanford.edu/event/blockchain-in-journalism-promise-and-practice/
LOCATION:Brown Institute at Columbia\, 2950 Broadway\, New York\, NY\, 10027\, United States
CATEGORIES:Conferences
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ORGANIZER;CN="Brown Institute @ Columbia":MAILTO:browninstitute@columbia.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181016T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181016T133000
DTSTAMP:20260403T180219
CREATED:20180921T042528Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180921T180406Z
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SUMMARY:Media Innovation Seminar: Whither VR? with Kate Parsons and Ben Vance
DESCRIPTION:Video artist and educator Kate Parsons and VR Veteran Ben Vance explore art and design through emerging technology at FLOAT\, a collaborative entity focusing on the intersection of art and interactivity. They will share tips on how their team creates  evocative\, nuanced art experiences using cutting-edge VR technology.
URL:https://brown.stanford.edu/event/kate-parsons-and-ben-vance-whither-vr/
LOCATION:Brown Institute at Stanford\, 355 Serra Mall\, Stanford\, CA\, 94305
CATEGORIES:Media Innovators Speakers Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181013T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181013T170000
DTSTAMP:20260403T180219
CREATED:20180921T010015Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180921T180358Z
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SUMMARY:Transparency Series Workshop: Polling with FiveThirtyEight
DESCRIPTION:The first workshop in the Transparency Series takes you through techniques for looking at one or more polls over time. Join Janie Velencia and Dhrumil Mehta who lead Pollapalooza at FiveThirtyEight to get exposed to sources\, tools\, and strategies for working with polls — starting at the very beginning with simple random samples\, and leading to the detailed models that are employed today. All the while\, we will emphasize how to find and tell interesting\, novel stories with polls. No prior experience in statistics or data analysis is needed. \nApply for the workshop at transparency.brown.columbia.edu.
URL:https://brown.stanford.edu/event/transparency-series-workshop-polling-with-fivethirtyeight/
LOCATION:Brown Institute at Columbia\, 2950 Broadway\, New York\, NY\, 10027\, United States
CATEGORIES:Media Innovators Speakers Series,Transparency Series
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ORGANIZER;CN="Brown Institute @ Columbia":MAILTO:browninstitute@columbia.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181012T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181012T183000
DTSTAMP:20260403T180219
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SUMMARY:Transparency Series Seminar: Polling with Amanda Cox
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a discussion with Amanda Cox from the Upshot at the New York Times who will discuss polling and its importance in the political races. As the 2018 midterm election nears\, we pore over opinion polls looking for subtle (or not so subtle) clues about how things will fare on November 6. When looking at the race for the house and for the senate\, polls vary wildly. Which polls are right? Or reliable? To journalists\, of course\, the polls themselves aren’t the story\, they help tell us a story. The narrative power of polls extends far beyond a single number on a given day. Taken collectively and in combination with other data\, we can tell deep stories about the nature of our public’s opinions. \nFor registration and more information\, go to transparency.brown.columbia.edu
URL:https://brown.stanford.edu/event/transparency-series-seminar-polling-with-amanda-cox/
LOCATION:Brown Institute at Columbia\, 2950 Broadway\, New York\, NY\, 10027\, United States
CATEGORIES:Transparency Series
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ORGANIZER;CN="Brown Institute @ Columbia":MAILTO:browninstitute@columbia.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181012T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181012T130000
DTSTAMP:20260403T180219
CREATED:20180921T173546Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180921T173546Z
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SUMMARY:d.school Pop Up: reDesigning Local Media
DESCRIPTION:In this three-session workshop\, we will explore the intersection of media and design through both a publishing and technology product design lens. Teams will work in partnership with local media organizations to innovate across the digital divide.
URL:https://brown.stanford.edu/event/d-school-pop-up-redesigning-local-media/
LOCATION:Hasso Plattner School of Design\, 475 Via Ortega\, Stanford\, CA\, 94305\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181011T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181011T180000
DTSTAMP:20260403T180219
CREATED:20180802T140655Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180912T204437Z
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SUMMARY:Distinguished Lectures in Computational Innovation: Dr. Lorena Barba
DESCRIPTION:At 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.  \nThis lecture features Dr. Lorena Barba\, Associate Professor\, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering\, George Washington University Member\, Board of Directors\, NumFOCUS. \nThe event will include a presentation\, Question & Answer session\, and post-event networking reception.  \nLorena A. Barba is an associate professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at the George Washington University in Washington\, DC. She holds a PhD in aeronautics from the California Institute of Technology and BSc/PEng degrees in mechanical engineering from Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María\, Chile. Her research includes computational fluid dynamics\, high-performance computing\, computational biophysics\, and animal flight. \nAn international leader in computational science and engineering\, she is also a long-standing advocate of open source software for science and education\, and she is well known for her courses and open educational resources. She was a recipient of the 2016 Leamer-Rosenthal Award for Open Social Sciences\, and in 2017\, was nominated and received an honorable mention in the Open Education Awards for Excellence of the Open Education Consortium. \nProf. Barba received the NSF Faculty Early CAREER award (2012)\, was named CUDA Fellow by NVIDIA Corp. (2012)\, is an awardee of the UK Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) First Grant program (2007)\, is an Amelia Earhart Fellow of the Zonta Foundation (1999) and a leader in computational science and engineering internationally. She is a member of the Board of Directors for the NumFOCUS non-profit\, and a member of the editorial board for IEEE/AIP Computing in Science and Engineering\, The Journal of Open Source Software\, and The ReScience Journal.  \nRegister Here
URL:https://brown.stanford.edu/event/distinguished-lectures-in-computational-innovation-dr-lorena-barba/
LOCATION:Brown Institute at Columbia\, 2950 Broadway\, New York\, NY\, 10027\, United States
CATEGORIES:Distinguished Lecture Series
ORGANIZER;CN="Brown Institute @ Columbia":MAILTO:browninstitute@columbia.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181009T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181009T133000
DTSTAMP:20260403T180219
CREATED:20180921T172706Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180921T172706Z
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SUMMARY:Media Innovation Seminar: Innovating in the Public Square with J. Nathan Matias
DESCRIPTION:In this talk\, Princeton’s J. Nathan Matias will discuss how to protect media environments and draw parallels between history of our current moment and  the history of environmental protection and food safety\, pointing out the key role of citizen science.
URL:https://brown.stanford.edu/event/media-innovation-seminar-innovating-in-the-public-square-with-j-nathan-matias/
LOCATION:Brown Institute at Stanford\, 355 Serra Mall\, Stanford\, CA\, 94305
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181005T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181005T203000
DTSTAMP:20260403T180219
CREATED:20180904T130007Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180921T180339Z
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SUMMARY:2018 Brown Institute Showcase
DESCRIPTION:Maneesh Agrawala and Mark Hansen cordially invite you to the Brown Institute for Media Innovation 2018 Showcase! \nJoin us for a reception and exhibition of our 2017-2018 projects. \nOctober 5\, 2018 – 5:00pm\nat the Brown Institute\nat Stanford University \n \nDescriptions of the projects can be seen below. The event will take place on the lawn adjacent to the Brown Institute\, located in the inner courtyard of the Gates Building (353 Serra Mall) at Stanford University. The closest parking structures to the Gates Building are Parking Structure 2 and Roble Parking Garage. Parking is unrestricted after 4:00PM.\n\n\n \nCamera Observa. In the modern\, fast-paced news environment where video is in high demand\, it is essential to capture high-quality video quickly and easily. Even for professional news teams\, consistently producing high-quality footage is a major challenge. Yet it is essential to get a satisfactory first capture due to the ephemeral nature of news. Camera Observa proposes using a 360° camera technology to capture the context of the scene (such as lighting) to help reduce the many burdens of capturing video. Led by Jane E and Ohad Fried at Stanford Computer Science\, the Camera Observa platform will provide in-camera feedback on quality of lighting in a video frame and suggest orientations of the subject to achieve various image styles; capture important interactions happening off-camera; and record additional B-roll. \nCampaign. Campaign is a strategy game that takes place in an imagined nation whose leaders are up for reelection. You are a campaign manager who must persuade the fictional characters in the game to vote for your candidate. You can learn more by solving logic puzzles\, or by “convincing” the characters to share data in exchange for a reward. With enough information\, you even unlock a Cambridge Analytica-style psychological “archetype” for a character. Campaign is a game about politics\, privacy\, data sharing and micro-targeting. The project is led by Laurent Bastien Corbeil\, Rashida Kamal\, Kevin Fei Sun and Eileen Townsend\, all members of the class of 2017 or 2018 at the Columbia Journalism School. It will be funded by the Brown Institute and supported\, in part\, by ProPublica. \nDark Inquiry. Emerging from the critical practice and political commitments of digital publication the New Inquiry\, Dark Inquiry is a project-driven alliance of technologists\, artists\, writers\, and investigative researchers convened to to deploy a series of situated\, confrontational\, rhetorically-deliberate experiments that expose the anti-human logic of dominant technological power\, and demonstrate the possibilities beyond it. Dark Inquiry calls these experiments “rhetorical software\,” (a game\, an app\, a bot\, an API or some other creative use of technology) that produce critique through experience and interaction rather than written language. One of their outputs\, which will be exhibited is BailBloc\, a cryptocurrency scheme against bail\, with intentions of creating new conversations about bail reform. \nData Interrupted. The 1994 Rwandan genocide left millions dead or displaced\, and a society in ruins. There is one consequence of the genocide that has gone unreported: the near-total collapse of Rwanda’s ability to gather data\, including that related to the weather. Data\, Interrupted is a story about a country’s struggles to replace a generation of missing data and to try to understand and manage climate uncertainty. The project is led by Francesco Fiondella and Catherine Vaughan\, with the International Research Institute for Climate and Society\, and Amir Imani\, a student in the Data Science Institute at Columbia University. \n  \n \nDataShare. Investigators around the world are all facing the same problem: each holds a wealth of information\, but the sensitive documents and data are locked behind their organization’s firewall. There are stories and investigations that could be done\, if only these data collections were interoperable. DataShare allows for valuable knowledge about people and companies to be “sieved” into indexes and shared securely within a network of trusted individuals\, fostering unforeseen collaboration and prompting new investigations that uncover corruption and abuse of power. The DataShare team includes Julien Martin and others from the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists. It will be funded by the Brown Institute and supported by PBS’ investigative series FRONTLINE. \n \nEsper. With the advent of cheap consumer photography and the rise of ubiquitous imaging devices like street cameras and drones\, large video collections are of increasing interest and availability to journalists and academics. Video streaming websites like YouTube and LiveLeak present rich datasets covering both high activity events (protests\, conflict zones) as well as more mundane affairs (traffic\, C-SPAN). For example\, with video streams of a protest\, a journalist might ask: how many people attended the protest? When did someone start speaking? Esper is a system that facilitates exploration of large video collections by enabling researchers to easily organize and annotate their videos at scale. Esper is led by Will Crichton at Stanford Computer Science. \nMeasuring Public Perception. News is no longer made through self-contained works of reporting\, but instead often emerges as an ongoing dialog between facts\, readers\, and multiple media sources. For every news story published\, thousands of people will react via comments or social media\, and it will often be re-reported by other media outlets (from small blogs to major newspapers). To understand the true impact of a story\, journalists must understand the substance of the discussion it inspires. The goal of this project is to create tools that allow journalists to measure these reactions at scale. The Measuring Public Perception team consists of Ethan Fast and Binbin Chen from Stanford Computer Science. \nVisual Beat. Today’s journalists are tasked with informing a public that is used to being entertained. News has to compete with the rest of the Internet\, where good reporting often drowns in a sea of cat videos and click-bait. In this challenging landscape\, news organizations have to adapt new strategies to keep readers\, viewers\, and listeners engaged. Visual Beat will build tools that take audio/visual content curated by journalists\, and transform it into alignment with music to create a song-and-dance like presentation. This editing device could be a powerful way to engage viewers and draw them to a story\, without asking journalists to change the way they choose content. The Visual Beat team is led by Abe Davis and Sean Liu from Stanford Computer Science. \nWe Can. It is said that New York is a city for only the very rich or the very poor. As the cost of living rises\, thousands of people learn to see treasures where the majority sees trash. They call themselves canners\, or lateros\, or hui shou ren depending on their origin. They make a living redeeming empty cans and bottles for five cents a piece\, thanks to a 1982 State law commonly referred to as the Bottle Bill. There is no accurate data on the activity of canning\, but people involved in the sector claim that more than 10\,000 people pick up empty cans on the streets of New York to make some money. We mapped the experience of eight of them. We Can is a project by Francesca Berardi\, an Italian journalist based in New York\, and Grga Basic\, a cartographer. The project can be seen on canners.nyc.
URL:https://brown.stanford.edu/event/2018-brown-institute-showcase/
LOCATION:Brown Institute at Stanford\, 355 Serra Mall\, Stanford\, CA\, 94305
CATEGORIES:Receptions
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SUMMARY:Media Innovation Seminar: Frameworks for Predicting the Next Tech Trends in Media with Slack's Ceci Stallsmith
DESCRIPTION:Industry-shifting opportunities come along about every five-to-ten years. In this conversation with Stanford’s Brown Institute\, Slack’s Head of Platform Ceci Stallsmith\, outlines ways to detect platform shifts before it’s too late to jump on a trend.
URL:https://brown.stanford.edu/event/ceci-stallsmith-frameworks-for-predicting-the-next-tech-trends-in-media/
LOCATION:Brown Institute at Stanford\, 355 Serra Mall\, Stanford\, CA\, 94305
CATEGORIES:Media Innovators Speakers Series
ORGANIZER;CN="Brown Institute @ Stanford":MAILTO:brown_institute@stanford.edu
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20180929
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20181001
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SUMMARY:Photography in Collaboration: Migration and Religion
DESCRIPTION: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 knowledge sharing and community building for participants\, encouraging peer-to-peer learning\, resource sharing\, feedback\, and ongoing support for works-in-progress. The lab will allow participants to expand and imagine new possibilities for their work\, sharpen their objectives\, solidify planning\, and engage with experts and stakeholders related to their projects. \nThis lab is closed to accepted applicants.
URL:https://brown.stanford.edu/event/photography-in-collaboration-migration-and-religion/
LOCATION:Brown Institute at Columbia\, 2950 Broadway\, New York\, NY\, 10027\, United States
CATEGORIES:Trainings
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ORGANIZER;CN="Brown Institute @ Columbia":MAILTO:browninstitute@columbia.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180928T144500
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180928T180000
DTSTAMP:20260403T180219
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SUMMARY:Knowing Together - Workshop
DESCRIPTION:Knowing Together is a workshop and exhibition about collaborative 3D photography and embodied experience hosted and supported by the 2018 Myers Fund at EdLab Teachers College in collaboration with visiting artist Rosalie Yu.  \nThe project asks how community members sharing a memorable experience and learning a new technology can create something more expressive and personally meaningful with 3D technology than mere photorealism. It draws from theories of photography\, creative technology\, and art therapy to raise new questions about intimacy in digital media\, as well as the significance of boundary between self and other. \nThe workshop will begin with a presentation by the artist followed by hands-on instruction in 3D scanning techniques. It will apply what participants learn about photogrammetry (one 3D scanning technique) through collaborative scanning of platonic embraces between members of the group. Selected scans will be 3D printed and placed on exhibition for six weeks at Teachers College opening December 6\, 2018. \nCall for workshop participants is now open\, sign-up here.
URL:https://brown.stanford.edu/event/knowing-together-workshop/
LOCATION:The Smith Learning Theater | Teachers College\, 525 West 120th Street Russell Hall 4th floor\, New York City\, NY\, 10027\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180927T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180927T183000
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SUMMARY:Cory Doctorow with Jad Abumrad
DESCRIPTION:Beyond “I agree”: A democratic technology\, without Big Tech. \nRSVP at brwn.co/cd-register. \nThe techlash marks the end of complacency over Big Tech: in a single instant\, states have gone from being completely blase about the risks of a monopolized digital world run by high-handed CEOs who answer only to their shareholders\, to being certain that the answer involves limiting the excesses of the digital monopolists…by enshrining them as permanent monarchs of the internet and then extracting some regulatory promises from them. \nIt’s a form of Constitutional Monarchy\, in which Google\, Apple\, Facebook\, Twitter and their ilk are acknowledged as the rightful rulers of the net\, and then subjected to the limits placed on them by aristocratic/technocratic regulators. \nThere’s a better way. A more democratic way. The way of the hacker. Hackers don’t accept take-it-or-leave it offers. Instead\, hackers take the parts they want and filter out the parts they don’t. The most democratic future is one in which we tame big tech by taking away its legal right to stop users — and the toolsmiths who serve them — from picking and choosing the parts of the platforms we like\, configuring them to suit our needs with third-party tools\, and tearing up the take-it-or-leave it deal that’s on the table today. \nIt’s undemocratic to have the world shaped by a tiny elite of coders. It’s less democratic to leave the shape of the world up to the coders’ massive profit-driven employers. The MOST democratic future is one where everyone gets to hack\, where we seize the means of computation and distribute it to everyone. \nA public lecture by Cory Doctorow followed by a Q&A with Jad Abumrad
URL:https://brown.stanford.edu/event/cory-doctorow-a-discussion-and-qa/
LOCATION:Lecture Hall\, Pulitzer Hall\, 2950 Broadway\, New York\, NY\, 10027\, United States
CATEGORIES:Panels & Seminars
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180926T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180926T200000
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SUMMARY:Huxleyed into the Full Orwell: How Digital Copyright Abuse Has Abetted a Culture of Mass Surveillance and Social Control
DESCRIPTION:Journalist and science fiction writer Cory Doctorow will talk about the millennia-old social compact of the book\, and the arbitrary renegotiation of that contract in the age of ebooks\, where prior restraint\, restrictions on lending\, donation and gifting\, and invasive\, surveillant technologies have become the norm. He will investigate how technology and license agreements have gone on to colonize our relationships with other devices and systems\, from voting machines to tractors\, insulin pumps to thermostats.
URL:https://brown.stanford.edu/event/huxleyed-into-the-full-orwell-how-digital-copyright-abuse-has-abetted-a-culture-of-mass-surveillance-and-social-control/
LOCATION:Butler Library 523\, 535 West 114th\, New York\, NY\, 10027\, United States
CATEGORIES:Panels & Seminars
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180925T121500
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180925T133000
DTSTAMP:20260403T180219
CREATED:20180828T162334Z
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SUMMARY:A Conversation with Cory Doctorow
DESCRIPTION:Cory Doctorow will join Dennis Tenen\, Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature\, in a conversation about science fiction\, the changing material conditions of contemporary authorship\, copyright\, and surveillance.
URL:https://brown.stanford.edu/event/a-conversation-with-cory-doctorow/
LOCATION:The Heyman Center\, Second Floor Common Room\, 74 Morningside Dr\, New York\, NY\, 10027\, United States
CATEGORIES:Panels & Seminars
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180925T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180925T133000
DTSTAMP:20260403T180219
CREATED:20180921T035223Z
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SUMMARY:Media Innovation Seminar:  How to build a Culture of Innovation in Media with Matter's Corey Ford
DESCRIPTION:Corey Ford\, Managing Partner and Founder of the bicoastal media accelerator Matter\, joins the Brown Institute for a discussion about upcoming media/tech trends and what it takes for media organizations to build a culture of innovation.
URL:https://brown.stanford.edu/event/matters-corey-ford-how-to-build-a-culture-of-innovation-in-media/
LOCATION:Brown Institute at Stanford\, 355 Serra Mall\, Stanford\, CA\, 94305
CATEGORIES:Media Innovators Speakers Series
ORGANIZER;CN="Brown Institute @ Stanford":MAILTO:brown_institute@stanford.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180919T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180919T120000
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SUMMARY:Knowing Together - Seminar
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a Seminar on September 19\, 2018 to learn about Knowing Together\, a project by Rosalie Yu\, Creative Technologist at the Brown Institute. In the past Yu has worked with 3D capturing techniques to explore the limits of perception and memory\, to reflect upon archiving practices\, to transform everyday experience through rituals\, and to interrogate the process of capturing depth in photography. She will share her recent projects examining these concerns within larger cultural narratives like the long\, exploitative history of colonial sugar production and the complex dynamics of physical intimacy in East Asian culture. Sign-up and more info here. \n\nKnowing Together is a workshop and exhibition on collaborative 3D photography and embodied experience hosted and supported by the 2018 Myers Fund at EdLab Teachers College in collaboration with Rosalie Yu.  \n 
URL:https://brown.stanford.edu/event/knowing-together-seminar/
LOCATION:The Smith Learning Theater | Teachers College\, 525 West 120th Street Russell Hall 4th floor\, New York City\, NY\, 10027\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180918T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180918T180000
DTSTAMP:20260403T180219
CREATED:20180820T202028Z
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SUMMARY:Brown Institute & Tow Center Welcome Mixer
DESCRIPTION:The Brown Institute and Tow Center serve as a digital hub at the school\, researching and building the future of journalism. Join us in the Brown Institute to meet with researchers and staff\, and learn more about the various opportunities and offerings afforded to students during their time at the Journalism School as well as upon graduation. \nNibbles and drinks will be provided.
URL:https://brown.stanford.edu/event/brown-institute-tow-center-welcome-mixer/
LOCATION:Brown Institute at Columbia\, 2950 Broadway\, New York\, NY\, 10027\, United States
CATEGORIES:Info Sessions
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ORGANIZER;CN="Brown Institute @ Columbia":MAILTO:browninstitute@columbia.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180913T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180913T180000
DTSTAMP:20260403T180219
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SUMMARY:Distinguished Lectures in Computational Innovation: Dr. Bjarne Stroustrup
DESCRIPTION:At 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. \nThe first of the Distinguished Lecture series features Dr. Bjarne Stroustrup\, Managing Director\, Technology Division\, Morgan Stanley; Visiting Professor\, Department of Computer Science\, Columbia University who will discuss C++: An Invisible Foundation. \nC++ is one of the key foundations of our software. It is invisible to most people because they use it only indirectly. It’s in your computer and your phone. It’s in the machines that manufacture\, your computer\, and your phone. It’s in most cars\, including all the self-driving ones. It’s on Mars\, and in deep sea-robots. It’s what runs your Java virtual machine and your Python AI/ML scripts. \nIn this Distinguished Lecture\, Dr. Stroustrup will briefly explain what technical aspects of C++ makes it so useful. He will focus on design principles\, but also touch upon resource management and what it takes to be efficient in various contexts. Finally\, he will comment on the challenges facing the C++ community. \nThe event will include a presentation\, Question & Answer session\, and post-event networking reception. All Columbia University students\, faculty\, postdocs\, and administrators are welcome to register and attend these events. The Foundations for Research Computing program is proud to partner with the Data Science Institute and the Brown Institute for Media Innovation for this Distinguished Lectures series. \nRegister Here \n\nAbout Dr. Bjarne Stroustrup \nDr. Bjarne Stroustrup is the designer and original implementer of C++ as well as the author of The C++ Programming Language (Fourth Edition)\, A Tour of C++\, Programming: Principles and Practice using C++ (Second Edition)\, and many popular and academic publications. Dr. Stroustrup is a Managing Director in the technology division of Morgan Stanley in New York City as well as a visiting professor in Columbia University’s Department of Computer Science. He is a member of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering\, and an IEEE\, ACM\, and CHM fellow. He received the 2018 Charles Stark Draper Prize\, the IEEE Computer Society’s 2018 Computer Pioneer Award\, and the 2017 IET Faraday Medal. His research interests include distributed systems\, design\, programming techniques\, software development tools\, and programming languages. He is actively involved in the ISO standardization of C++. He holds a master’s degree in mathematics from Aarhus University\, where he is an honorary professor\, and a Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Cambridge\, where he is an honorary fellow of Churchill College.
URL:https://brown.stanford.edu/event/distinguished-lectures-in-computational-innovation/
LOCATION:Brown Institute at Columbia\, 2950 Broadway\, New York\, NY\, 10027\, United States
CATEGORIES:Distinguished Lecture Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180906T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180906T213000
DTSTAMP:20260403T180219
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SUMMARY:Journocoders NYC
DESCRIPTION: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. \nThis month Journocoders NYC will be hopping on the virtual reality bandwagon\, learning how to create a 3D VR simulation of the surface of Mars. \nWe’ll be following a tutorial written by Armand Emamdjomeh of the LA Times. When you finish\, you’ll basically have a simplified version of the publication’s “Discovering Gale Crater” (http://graphics.latimes.com/mars-gale-crater-vr/) interactive. You’ll also have a taste of what Three.js (http://threejs.org) can do. \nMake sure to bring a laptop along (Mac or Linux machines are preferable\, but Windows is ok too) as this will be a practical\, hands-on workshop. No programming experience is required\, but we strongly recommend having a grasp of HTML and JavaScript fundamentals. Codecademy has good introductory tutorials (https://www.codecademy.com/learn/learn-html). \nOh\, and make sure to join the collaborative doc (https://paper.dropbox.com/doc/Journocoders-NYC-September-2018–AKu3yV6i2_bgM5O7FQA5rXdVAQ-oLWdOROS0B8tiSgYnwO7p) for the event! \nThis event is kindly hosted by the Brown Institute at Columbia Journalism School\, and refreshments are sponsored by The Wall Street Journal. \nSchedule: \n7.00: Doors open \n7.30: Show & tell \n7.40: Tutorial \n9.00: Drinks! \nRSVP HERE
URL:https://brown.stanford.edu/event/journocoders-nyc-2/
LOCATION:Brown Institute at Columbia\, 2950 Broadway\, New York\, NY\, 10027\, United States
CATEGORIES:Trainings
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180906T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180906T170000
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SUMMARY:An Introduction to Public Data
DESCRIPTION:On September 6\, from 9am-5pm\, the Brown Institute is proud to host a day devoted to public data. It is designed for students in journalism\, statistics and data science — essentially anyone who has an interest in understanding their neighborhoods\, their cities\, their state and even the nation through data. Throughout the day\, students will learn about what data are available and why. What might be missing and why. And how data are used to answer hard questions about who we are and how we live. The day is divided between data publishers and consumers\, ending with a panel specifically designed for journalists. A rough schedule is outlined below. Register at http://brwn.co/datatix \n09:00-09:15 Opening Remarks \n09:15-10:30 Keynote Discussion \nNancy Potok\, Chief Statistician of the United States\, interviewed by Margo Anderson\, historian of statistics\, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee \n10:30-10:45 Break \n10:45-12:15 NYC Panel \nLocal government produces a large number of data products for the public\, ranging from surveys—like the Housing Vacancy Survey and the Community Health Survey—to administrative records—like CompStat crime reports and school report cards. This panel consists of the major data providers in New York City who will introduce some of the data products that are important for data journalists and data scientists investigating New York City. The panelists will discuss some common pitfalls public-data users should watch out for\, and provide advice and resources (such as online tools) for using these datasets responsibly. \nJoe Salvo\, Head of the Population Division at the Department of City Planning \nElyzabeth Gaumer\, Assistant Commissioner for Research & Evaluation for the Department of Housing Preservation & Development \nKinjia Hinterland\, Director of Data Communications at the Department of Health and Mental and Hygiene \n12:15-01:30 Lunch \n01:30-02:00 Keynote Talk \nJeffrey Chen\, Chief Innovation Officer for the Bureau of Economic Analysis\, part of the Department of Commerce. \n02:00-03:30 A Research View \nThe digital revolution has vastly expanded the quantity and quality of data collected by government. New surveys and Freedom of Information/Open Data laws have helped put this data in the hands of data journalists and data scientists. From the Census FactFinder and BEA realtime GDP to school report cards and participatory budgeting\, the public is privy to more government information and decision making than ever before. \nAt the same time\, data has made policy far more complex\, enabling computer algorithms to make complicated decisions about complex topics like redistricting and recidivism. Has public data truly increased transparency and accountability? Is policy more or less accessible to journalists and the public? This panel will rate the current state of government data\, provide an academic context for journalists and data scientists\, and anticipate the future of public data. \nEster Fuchs\, Urban and Social Policy Program\, Columbia SIPA \nAndrew Young\, NYU’s Governance Lab \nJohn Mollenkopf\, Center for Urban Research at the CUNY Graduate Center \n03:30-03:45 Break \n03:45-05:15 Journalism Finale \nWe close the day with a panel of data journalists who will examine how they find and tell stories using public data. These are important lessons for aspiring data journalists and data scientists. Why were the data collected? What were the incentives and motivations behind its collection? How was it collected? How has it been used before? And are there any gaps — who is not being counted? Five practicing data journalists will share their experiences. \nTom Meagher\, The Marshall Project \nSarah Ryley\, The Trace \nTom McGinty\, The Wall Street Journal \nAnnie Waldman\, ProPublica \nLaura Bliss\, CityLab\, The Atlantic \n\nShort Bios \nMargo Anderson is Distinguished Professor Emerita [ History & Urban Studies] at the University of Wisconson – Milwaukee. She specializes in American social\, urban and women’s history and has research interests in both urban history and the history of the social sciences and the development of statistical data systems\, particularly the census. Her publications include the second edition of The American Census: A Social History (Yale University Press\, 2015); Encyclopedia of the U.S. Census: From the Constitution to the American Community Survey (ACS)\, 2d ed. (Washington\, D.C.: CQ Press\, 2011)\, coedited with Constance F. Citro and Joseph J. Salvo; and a co-edited volume with Victor Greene\, Perspectives on Milwaukee’s Past (University of Illinois Press\, 2009). With UWM Professor Amanda Seligman\, she is Lead Editor of the Encyclopedia of Milwaukee\, https://emke.uwm.edu.  In 2006 she served as the President of the Social Science History Association. \n—  \nJonathan Auerbach is a PhD candidate in Columbia University’s Statistics Department. Prior to joining the program\, he was a researcher at CUNY’s Center for Urban Research and an analyst at New York City’s legislature\, the City Council. His interests include public policy and statistical methodology.\n—  \nLaura Bliss is an award-winning staff writer at The Atlantic‘s CityLab\, covering urban politics and policy with a focus on transportation. She also authors MapLab\, a biweekly newsletter about maps. Her work has appeared in the New York Times\, The Atlantic\, Mother Jones\, Los Angeles magazine\, GOOD\, and beyond. She tweets @mslaurabliss.\n—  \nCraig Campbell is a Special Advisor at the Mayor’s Office of Data Analytics\, where he supports strategic communications and policy development for the NYC Open Data and NYC Analytics programs. Prior to working in local government\, he researched trends in municipal data analytics and government technology at the Harvard Kennedy School\, where he supported a variety of national policy networks and research programs at the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation. He holds a degree in architecture and mathematics from Amherst College.\n—  \nJeff Chen is a statistician and data science leader\, currently serving as the Chief Innovation Officer of the Bureau of Economic Analysis. In this role\, he is responsible for integrating innovations in data science and machine learning to improve measurement of the US economy.  He has extensive experience in launching and leading data science initiatives in over 40 domains and working with diverse stakeholders such as firefighters\, economists\, climatologists\, and technologists. Previously\, he served as the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Chief Data Scientist; a White House Presidential Innovation Fellow with NASA and the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy focused on data science for the environment; the first Director of Analytics at the NYC Fire Department where he engineered pioneering algorithms for fire prediction; and was among the first data scientists at the NYC Mayor’s Office of Operations during the Bloomberg Administration. Jeff started his career as an econometrician at an engineering consultancy where he developed forecasting and prediction models supporting large-scale infrastructure investment projects. In the evenings\, he is an adjunct professor at Georgetown University’s McCourt School of Public Policy where he teaches a graduate course on data science. He holds a B.A. in economics from Tufts University and a M.A. in Quantitative Methods in the Social Sciences from Columbia University.\n—  \nEster R. Fuchs is Professor of International and Public Affairs and Political Science and Director of the Urban and Social Policy Program at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs. She previously chaired Urban Studies at Barnard and Columbia Colleges. Fuchs serves as Director ofWhosontheballot.org\, an online voter engagement initiative. Fuchs is also a member of the Faculty Steering Committee of the Eric Holder Initiative for Civil and Political Rights\, the Columbia Provost’s Just Societies Task Force\, the Columbia’s Data Science Institute and its Smart Cities Center. She recently received the Bella Abzug Leadership Award\, the City & State Above & Beyond Exceptional New York Women Award for Education and an Award for Outstanding Teaching at SIPA. \nFuchs academic research is in urban politics and policy\, American parties and elections\, workforce development\, smart cities and urban environmental sustainability policy. Fuchs served as Special Advisor to the Mayor for Governance and Strategic Planning under New York City Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg from 2001 to 2005.  And was the first woman to chair a NYC Charter Revision Commission in2005. Fuchs serves on numerous boards\, advises businesses and political campaigns and is frequent political commentator on TV\, radio and new media.  Fuchs received a BA from Queens College\, CUNY; an MA from Brown University and PhD in Political Science from the University of Chicago.\n—  \nElyzabeth Gaumer is Assistant Commissioner of Research and Evaluation at the New York City Department of Housing Preservation and Development where she leads the agency’s efforts to evaluate the impact of City-sponsored programs and policies on families and neighborhoods and promote evidence-based policymaking. She represents HPD’s various research activities to a broad range of policy stakeholders at the local and national levels and acts as advisor and contributor to several inter-agency research efforts and working groups. Gaumer is co-Principal Investigator for the Housing and Neighborhood Study (HANS)\, a randomized control trial jointly led by HPD and Jeanne Brooks-Gunn at Columbia University that evaluates the impact of affordable housing on the health and well-being of low-income New Yorkers. Since 2014\, she has also been the Survey Director for the New York City Housing and Vacancy Survey (NYC HVS)\, the City’s representative survey of the housing stock and population conducted every three years by the US Census Bureau. Her own research interests include rent regulation\, neighborhood effects\, age stratification in urban areas\, and use of paradata to refine survey design and operations.\n—  \nKinjia Hinterland\, MPH\, has over 10 years of experience at the NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene and currently serves as the Director of the Data Communications Unit in the Bureau of Epidemiology Services. The Unit is dedicated to effectively communicating health-related data to inform public health policy and programs in NYC. The Data Communications team works with programs across the Health Department to make data available via ongoing publication series\, special reports\, and EpiQuery\, the interactive data analysis tool. The team’s mission is to fulfill community data needs by providing accessible information to audiences with an interest in public health data. Ms. Hinterland received her Master of Public Health degree from the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health\, with a concentration in Sociomedical Sciences. She tweets @kinjiah.\n—  \nTom McGinty is a reporter/editor on The Wall Street Journal’s investigative-reporting team. He joined The Journal in 2008. Previously\, he was a reporter on the investigative team of Newsday\, Long Island’s daily newspaper\, from 2001 through 2007. He previously was the training director of Investigative Reporters and Editors and the National Institute for Computer-Assisted Reporting. He was part of a Wall Street Journal team that won a Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting in 2015 for a series on abuses in Medicare\, as well as a Gerald Loeb Award and an Investigative Reporters and Editors Freedom of Information Award for the same coverage. He tweets @mcgint. \n—  \nTom Meagher is the deputy managing editor of The Marshall Project\, a nonprofit news organization dedicated to covering criminal justice in America. A veteran reporter and editor\, he previously led an interactive team for the Digital First Media newspaper chain and was the data editor at the Newark Star-Ledger. His reporting at The Marshall Project has won several honors\, including a Data Journalism Award for a piece examining changing crime trends. He co-founded Hack Jersey\, a group that brings journalists and developers together to work on open source news projects\, and he helped to organize the first Open Data Summit in the state of New Jersey. He tweets @ultracasual.\n—  \nJohn Mollenkopf is Distinguished Professor of Political Science and Sociology the CUNY Graduate Center and directs its Center for Urban Research.  He has published eighteen books on urban politics\, urban policy\, and race\, ethnicity\, and immigration. His current research analyzes how the rise of new immigrant communities has reshaped electoral politics in New York City since 2001.  He and colleagues at the Center for Urban Research have worked extensively with many large administrative databases\, including the voter registration and voter history files\, Homeless Services application files\, and administrative records from the Housing Recovery Office’s Build It Back program.  Much of their analysis involves matching different files\, geocoding the data\, and mapping the results. CUR also maintains the Oasis on-line mapping system for New York City at http://www.oasisnyc.net/.\n—  \nDr. Nancy Potok is Chief Statistician of the United States at OMB. She previously served as Deputy Director and Chief Operating Officer of the U.S. Census Bureau. Dr. Potok has over 30 years of leadership experience in the public\, non-profit\, and private sectors.  She served as Deputy Under Secretary for Economic Affairs at the US Department of Commerce; Principal Associate Director and CFO at the Census Bureau; Senior Vice President for Economic\, Labor\, and Population Studies at NORC at the University of Chicago; and Chief Operating Officer at McManis & Monsalve Associates\,  a business analytics consulting firm. She is an adjunct professor at the Trachtenberg School of Public Policy and Public Administration and a senior fellow at the Center for Excellence in Public Leadership at The George Washington University. She is the recipient of the Presidential Rank Award\, the Secretary of Commerce Gold Medal and Silver Medal for outstanding achievements\, the Arthur S. Flemming Award\, the Enterprise Risk Manager of the Year Award given by the Association for Federal Enterprise Risk Management\, and the Distinguished Alumni Award from The George Washington University. Dr. Potok is a member of the American Statistical Association\, an elected Fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration (NAPA) and serves on the Board of Trustees for the Institute of Pure and Applied Mathematics at UCLA.  She received her Ph.D. in public policy and public administration at The George Washington University.\n—  \nSarah Ryley is an investigative reporter at The Trace\, a non-profit news outlet that covers gun issues. Prior to joining The Trace\, she was an investigative reporter and editor at the New York Daily News. Her work there primarily focused on criminal justice and was the catalyst for numerous reforms. Her investigation on the NYPD’s abuse of eviction laws\, done in partnership with ProPublica\, was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service in 2017. She tweets @MissRyley.\n—  \nJoseph J. Salvo is Director of the Population Division at the New York City Department of City Planning. The Population Division serves as the city’s in-house demographic consultant\, providing expertise to agencies on applications involving assessments of need\, program planning and targeting\, and policy formulation. He has testified before Congress\, and served as an advisor to the Census Bureau and the National Academy of Sciences. He has co-authored articles on settlement patterns of race/ethnic groups\, census methods\, and survey evaluation. Dr. Salvo is presently leading a team making technical preparations for the 2020 Census and is active nationally in promoting the use of methods that will provide a more accurate count of the city’s population. He received M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from Fordham University\, is a recipient of the Sloan Public Service Award from the Fund for the City of New York\, and a Fellow of the American Statistical Association. NYC’s Dept. of City Planning tweets @NYCPlanning.\n—  \nAnnie Waldman is a staff reporter at ProPublica\, with a focus on data\, education and healthcare. She was part of the ProPublica-NPR team that investigated the United States’ maternal mortality rates\, a series of stories that was a finalist for a 2018 Pulitzer Prize in explanatory reporting. \nShe has been a finalist twice and won two awards from the Education Writers Association for her education reporting. She has won an award from the Society of American Business Editors and Writers and was a finalist for the Loeb Awards for her reporting with Paul Kiel and Al Shaw on the racial disparity of wage garnishment. A piece she published with The New York Times on a New Jersey student debt agency prompted a new law and several new bills\, aimed at increasing consumer protections for student borrowers and their families. Following her reporting on the largest accreditor of for-profit colleges\, the U.S. Department of Education stripped the agency of its powers. \nPrior to joining ProPublica\, she was a recipient of a Fulbright Fellowship to Israel\, where she reported on the plight of refugees from Darfur and Eritrea. She had a documentary film in the 2009 Sundance Film Festival\, on the lives of homeless high school students after Hurricane Katrina\, which was later broadcast nationally on PBS\, and recently produced a documentary film that premiered at the 2018 Tribeca Film Festival on adolescence in rural industrial towns. \nShe graduated with honors from the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism and the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia\, where she was the recipient of the Pulitzer Traveling Fellowship and the Brown Institute Computational Journalism Award. Her stories have been published in The New York Times\, the Atlantic\, Vice\, BBC News\, The Chronicle of Higher Education and Consumer Reports. She tweets @AnnieWaldman.\n—  \nAndrew Young is the Knowledge Director at The GovLab\, where he leads research efforts focusing on the impact of technology on public institutions. Among the grant-funded projects he has directed are a global assessment of the impact of open government data; comparative benchmarking of government innovation efforts against those of other countries; a methodology for leveraging corporate data to benefit the public good; and crafting the experimental design for testing the adoption of technology innovations in federal agencies. Andrew has authored or co-authored a number of extended works on new approaches for improving governance with technology\, including the books The Global Impact of Open Data and Open Data in Developing Economies. His writings can be found in Harvard Business Review\, Stanford Social Innovation Review\, GrantCraft\, and Governing\, among others. He tweets @_AndrewYoung.  \n\nLinks to tools and datasets mentioned during the day\n \nAmerican FactFinder \nLongitudinal Employer-Household Dynamics  \nNYC Population FactFinder \nMap Reliability Calculator \nNew York City Housing and Vacancy Survey \nEpiQuery \nNYC Community Health Survey \nNew York City Community Health Profiles \nWho’s on the Ballot? \nOasisNYC.net
URL:https://brown.stanford.edu/event/an-introduction-to-public-data/
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