Presenter Craig Silverman, BuzzFeed Workshop Description Twitter is not just a source of updates from friends and happenings in the local community. Instead, it is a dense network embedded with narratives of how the world is structured, including how information flows and spreads, both within and outside of communities. The platform is host to policy
Presenter John Keefe, Quartz Workshop Description Data, code and algorithms are changing systems of power in our world, often without sufficient critical assessment or accountability. Today’s journalists need to understand how these forces operate, engaging the underlying computational tools and techniques. At the same time, the ways journalists understand the world and communicate their observations
The Brown Institute and the Foundations for Research Computing program welcomes Travis Oliphant, CEO at OpenTeams and Quansight, founder of Anaconda, and creator of NumPy, to deliver a Distinguished Lecture in Computational Innovation at the Brown Institute on February 13th, 2020. About Travis Oliphant Travis E. Oliphant is a Founder and CEO/CTO of Quansight, an
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 museum spaces, game design, and architecture/planning, journalism has been slow to move beyond 360-degree video and basic implementations of augmented reality. When outlets such as
The Brown Institute is excited to welcome Sean Rameswaram, host of Today, Explained, Vox’s daily explainer podcast. As advertised by Vox, Today, Explained is your all killer, no filler, Monday to Friday news. Sean, a veteran of the podcast space, will discuss Vox’s novel approach to their daily show and will join Brown Institute Director
Can climate fiction help overcome political friction? When climate change is the focus of both fiction and nonfiction, dystopia tends to rule. It’s not hard to see why, given that 30 years of efforts to push past fossil fuels have barely shifted the global energy mix and impacts on humans and nature mount as vulnerable
Presenter The Pudding Workshop Description Graphical (or pictorial) presentations of data have become an almost essential part of journalistic practice. Data visualization helps us see patterns in data, and is an important tool for finding stories. Also, outlets like The New York Times, The Washington Post, and FiveThirtyEight are publishing data visualizations that push the
The Brown Institute is pleased to announce our first Magic Grant Information Session taking place virtually for the Columbia side of the Brown Institute on March 10, 2020 at 4:30PM. To join, please click the link below: https://zoom.us/j/900839288 Or iPhone one-tap : US: +16468769923,,900839288# or +16699006833,,900839288# Or Telephone: Dial(for higher quality, dial a number based
The Brown Institute is pleased to announce our first Magic Grant Information Session taking place at Stanford Engineering via a virtual webinar on March 12, 2020 at 4:30PM. To join the meeting, please visit stanford.zoom.us/j/249681708. If you’re interested in learning more about our Magic Grant offerings, come to our upcoming information session where you can
The Brown Institute is pleased to announce our second Magic Grant Information Session taking place virtually for the Columbia side of the Brown Institute on March 26, 2020 at 4:30PM. To join, please click the link below: https://zoom.us/j/861228398 Or iPhone one-tap : US: +16468769923,,861228398# or +16699006833,,861228398# Or Telephone: Dial(for higher quality, dial a number based
The Brown Institute is hosting virtual Magic Grant Information Sessions taking place each Thursday on Zoom at 4:30PM EST. To join, please use the link below: https://zoom.us/j/911667097 Password: 751054 If you’re interested in learning more about our Magic Grant offerings, come to our upcoming information session where you can find out: The types of projects
The Brown Institute is hosting virtual Magic Grant Information Sessions taking place each Thursday on Zoom at 4:30PM EST. To join, please use the link below: https://zoom.us/j/911667097 Password: 751054 If you’re interested in learning more about our Magic Grant offerings, come to our upcoming information session where you can find out: The types of projects
The Brown Institute is hosting virtual Magic Grant Information Sessions taking place each Thursday on Zoom at 4:30PM EST. To join, please use the link below: https://zoom.us/j/911667097 Password: 751054 If you’re interested in learning more about our Magic Grant offerings, come to our upcoming information session where you can find out: The types of projects
Presenter Dhrumil Mehta, FiveThirtyEight Workshop Description The last workshop in the Transparency Series takes you through techniques for looking at one or more polls over time. Join Dhrumil Mehta who leads Pollapalooza at FiveThirtyEight to get exposed to sources, tools, and strategies for working with polls — starting at the very beginning with simple random
The Brown Institute is hosting virtual Magic Grant Information Sessions taking place each Thursday on Zoom at 4:30PM EST. To join, please use the link below: https://zoom.us/j/911667097 Password: 751054 If you’re interested in learning more about our Magic Grant offerings, come to our upcoming information session where you can find out: The types of projects
The Brown Institute is hosting virtual Magic Grant Information Sessions taking place each Thursday on Zoom at 4:30PM EST. To join, please use the link below: https://zoom.us/j/911667097 Password: 751054 If you’re interested in learning more about our Magic Grant offerings, come to our upcoming information session where you can find out: The types of projects
The Brown Institute is hosting virtual Magic Grant Information Sessions taking place each Thursday on Zoom at 4:30PM EST. To join, please use the link below: https://zoom.us/j/911667097 Password: 751054 If
Join the Event! The event features a unique mix of journalists and technologists, all funded through the 2019-20 Magic Grant program — this is their moment to show off a year’s worth of work. The event will take place on a unique virtual platform allowing visitors to mingle with directors and staff, and meet individually
Each year, the Brown Institute sponsors talks that explore the intersection between media and technology. This year we have three virtual presentations lined up, each challenging us to think about data and computation in new ways. Each talk is by researchers outside of journalism, and yet we have a great deal to learn from their
Each year, the Brown Institute sponsors talks that explore the intersection between media and technology. This year we have three virtual presentations lined up, each challenging us to think about data and computation in new ways. Each talk is by researchers outside of journalism, and yet we have a great deal to learn from their
