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SUMMARY:Measuring Crime: Behind the Statistics
DESCRIPTION:Abstract: In 1915\, the Chicago City Council asked statistician Edith Abbott to report “upon the frequency of murder\, assault\, burglary\, robbery\, theft and like crimes in Chicago.” Her report\, drawing on published and unpublished statistics from the courts\, probation office\, house of correction\, and police department\, set the stage for subsequent collections and evaluations of crime statistics. Her conclusions—that statistics’ quality depend on the systems of data collection and that multiple sources of data are needed to study crime—hold today. \nDrawing on Abbott’s insights\, I set out eight questions to ask about a statistic before you rely on it. I then go through these questions for three sources of statistics about sexual assault: the Uniform Crime Reports\, the National Crime Victimization Survey\, and the National Intimate Partner and Sexual Violence Survey. \nBio: Sharon Lohr is a vice president and senior statistician at Westat in Rockville\, Maryland. Previously\, she was dean’s distinguished professor of statistics at Arizona State University. Her research has focused on survey sampling\, hierarchical models\, small-area estimation\, missing data\, and design of experiments. She is a fellow of the American Statistical Association and an elected member of the International Statistical Institute. She was the inaugural recipient of the Washington Statistical Society’s Gertrude M. Cox Statistics Award for contributions to the practice of statistics and a recipient of the society’s Morris Hansen Lecture Award. She was recently selected to present the Deming Lecture at the Joint Statistical Meetings. She has a Ph.D. in statistics from the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
URL:https://brown.stanford.edu/event/measuring-crime-behind-the-statistics/
LOCATION:Brown Institute at Columbia\, 2950 Broadway\, New York\, NY\, 10027\, United States
CATEGORIES:Panels & Seminars
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SUMMARY:Lunchtime Discussion with Andrew Zolli & Trevor Hammond\, Planet
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Wednesday\, 3/6 at 12pm for a lunchtime discussion with Andrew Zolli from Planet\, a satellite image provider. Remote sensing dates back to the 1858\, when cameras were carried by balloons to take aerial images of the earth. Building on these early capture techniques\, satellites and advancements in image capture have enabled a new era of remote sensing. For decades\, working with satellite imagery was cumbersome and slow. But new tools\, such as those developed by Planet\, make monitoring easier than ever before. \nPlanet’s mission is to image the entire Earth every day and make global change visible\, accessible\, and actionable. Whether it is tracking deforestation at home or abroad\, measuring impacts of natural disasters\, or tracking the progress of urbanization\, daily monitoring of satellite imagery has incredible potential to change how journalists make sense of our world. Join us to learn about Planet’s platform — which is free to journalists — and learn about potential opportunities for partnership.
URL:https://brown.stanford.edu/event/planet-lunchtime-chat/
LOCATION:Brown Institute at Columbia\, 2950 Broadway\, New York\, NY\, 10027\, United States
CATEGORIES:Info Sessions
ORGANIZER;CN="Brown Institute @ Columbia":MAILTO:browninstitute@columbia.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190306T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190306T130000
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CREATED:20190128T183007Z
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SUMMARY:Mapping Module 4 – Annotating a Map in Illustrator
DESCRIPTION: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. With the popularization of cartography\, anyone with a computer and an internet connection can make a map\, yet in news organizations\, the practices of cartography and GIS have remained largely in domain of engineering and graphics teams\, not with reporters. \nThis module will teach journalists how to make use of spatial data. Using tools common to all graphics desks\, students will learn how to find and tell stories using maps. The module is five weeks and will cover everything from spatial analysis to map design. It will take place 10am-1pm every Friday\, from February 13 – March 13. \nRegister for the workshop at brwn.co/map19. Please direct any questions to Michael Krisch (mkrisch@columbia.edu) or Juan Saldarriaga (juan.saldarriaga@columbia.edu).
URL:https://brown.stanford.edu/event/mapping-module-4-annotating-a-map-in-illustrator/
LOCATION:Brown Institute at Columbia\, 2950 Broadway\, New York\, NY\, 10027\, United States
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ORGANIZER;CN="Brown Institute @ Columbia":MAILTO:browninstitute@columbia.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190301T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190301T160000
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SUMMARY:Visual Literacy Module
DESCRIPTION:The Brown institute is offering a three-session workshop on Visual Literacy\, designed for journalism students to build vocabularies and practical skills around visual design through lectures\, discussions\, and hands-on sessions. You will walk away with a basic understanding of design principles and an overview of the graphics editor Adobe Illustrator. \nIn the workshop you will learn to communicate a piece of content clearly and effectively in type\, color and layout\, and recreate a piece of graphic from scratch with Illustrator.  \nThe workshop will take place on Fridays 3/1\, 3/8\, and 3/15 from 1pm to 4pm. Please sign-up at brwn.co/visual-language\, contact Rosalie (hy2514@columbia.edu) if you have any further questions.
URL:https://brown.stanford.edu/event/visual-literacy-module/
LOCATION:607C in Pulitzer Hall\, Columbia University
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ORGANIZER;CN="Brown Institute @ Columbia":MAILTO:browninstitute@columbia.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190227T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190227T183000
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SUMMARY:Queer & "Here"
DESCRIPTION:Queer & “Here”\nFrom hookup apps to investigative reporting\, community-building to historical archiving\, the Internet has transformed queer experience and visibility. What have these changes wrought? What gains? What losses? \nIn a free-wheeling and frank conversation\, Zach Stafford\, editor-in-chief of the U.S.’s oldest LGBTQ news magazine\, The Advocate\, and Jack Halberstam\, queer scholar and professor of English and Gender Studies at Columbia University\, will consider the roles the digital realm has played in queer communities\, how it has made space for queer narratives traditionally devalued in mainstream media\, and ways it has reshaped the very meanings of genders and sexualities – even as it has delivered sexual minorities to marketers and exposed vulnerable queer people to aggression. \nThe conversation introduces Queer Disruptions 3\, an international conference celebrating GLQ‘s 25th anniversary and looking back on the seminal conference Black Nations/Queer Nations from 1995. \nRegister at Eventbrite \n  \n\n  \nSpeakers: \nJack Halberstam\, a professor of gender studies and English at Columbia University. is the author of six books including: Skin Shows: Gothic Horror and the Technology of Monsters(Duke UP\, 1995)\, Female Masculinity (Duke UP\, 1998)\, In A Queer Time and Place (NYU Press\, 2005)\, The Queer Art of Failure (Duke UP\, 2011)\, Gaga Feminism: Sex\, Gender\, and the End of Normal (Beacon Press\, 2012)\, and\, most recently\, a short book titled Trans: A Quick and Quirky Account of Gender Variance (University of California Press). Among other projects\, Halberstam is currently working on a book titled Wild Thing: Queer Theory after Nature\, on queer anarchy\, performance\, and protest culture the intersections among animality\, the human\, and the environment. \nZach Stafford is the newly named editor-in-chief of The Advcoate\, the oldest continuously published LGBTQ periodical in the US\, a position he assumes after serving as editor-in-chief of INTO\, the LGBTQ digital magazine that quickly became one of the most-read queer outlets in the world. Previously he served as the editor-at-large of OUT Magazine and was an award-winning journalist at The Guardian\, where he covered justice\, violence\, and social issues in both his column and long-form features. Stafford regularly provides commentary on radio and podcasts and has appeared on the BBC\, CNN and The Daily Show with Trevor Noah. He the coeditor of the bestselling book Boys\, An Anthology and the executive producer/host of the recent documentary BOYSTOWN. \nModerator: \nMark Hansen\, professor at Columbia’s Graduate School of Journalism and director of its Brown Institute for Media Innovation\, has been working for nearly three decades at the intersection of data\, art and technology. He serves as the faculty sponsor of the Journalism School’s chapter of the NGLJA: The Association of LGBTQ Journalists. \nOrganized and Introduced by Alisa Solomon\, professor\, Columbia School of Journalism. \nSponsored by: \nThe Brown Institute for Media Innovation \nCUJ Chapter of NGLJA: The Association of LGBTQ Journalists \nIRWGS: Institute for Research on Women\, Gender & Sexuality
URL:https://brown.stanford.edu/event/queer-here/
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:20190227T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190227T130000
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CREATED:20190128T182755Z
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SUMMARY:Mapping Module 3 - Data Analysis and Estimation
DESCRIPTION: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. With the popularization of cartography\, anyone with a computer and an internet connection can make a map\, yet in news organizations\, the practices of cartography and GIS have remained largely in domain of engineering and graphics teams\, not with reporters. \nThis module will teach journalists how to make use of spatial data. Using tools common to all graphics desks\, students will learn how to find and tell stories using maps. The module is five weeks and will cover everything from spatial analysis to map design. It will take place 10am-1pm every Friday\, from February 13 – March 13. \nRegister for the workshop at brwn.co/map19. Please direct any questions to Michael Krisch (mkrisch@columbia.edu) or Juan Saldarriaga (juan.saldarriaga@columbia.edu).
URL:https://brown.stanford.edu/event/mapping-module-3-data-analysis-and-estimation/
LOCATION:Brown Institute at Columbia\, 2950 Broadway\, New York\, NY\, 10027\, United States
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ORGANIZER;CN="Brown Institute @ Columbia":MAILTO:browninstitute@columbia.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190225T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190225T180000
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CREATED:20190212T162534Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190221T030830Z
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SUMMARY:Closing Reception of Knowing Together
DESCRIPTION:We are approaching the closing date for Rosalie Yu’s recent project Knowing Together\, a set of seven resin sculptures suspended in acrylic domes using unconventional capture and printing techniques. These sculptures render 3D models produced through collaborative photogrammetry by a group of 35 participants during a workshop commissioned by EdLab\, the R&D unit at Teachers College\, Columbia. The complete data set is currently displayed alongside these sculptures in the Gottesman Library of TC. \nPlease join us for the Closing Reception on Monday\, February 25nd from 6-9PM.
URL:https://brown.stanford.edu/event/3724/
LOCATION:Offit Gallery | Teachers College\, 525 West 120th Street Russell Hall 3th floor\, New York City\, NY\, 10027\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190221T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190221T130000
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CREATED:20190131T160628Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190131T224727Z
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SUMMARY:Magic Grant Information Session
DESCRIPTION:Are you passionate about the role that emerging technologies can play in the future of media? Do you have a story that can only be told using technology outside the scope of traditional media? A Brown Institute Magic Grant might be for you. \nEstablished in 2012 as a collaboration between Columbia University’s Journalism School and Stanford’s School of Engineering\, Brown Institute Magic Grants seed innovation in the changing media landscape. \nMagic Grants provide year-long funding awards of up to $150\,000 ($300\,000 for teams with members of both the Columbia and Stanford communities). In addition to funding\, grantees have access to a distinguished advisory and mentoring group\, an extensive and inspiring alumni network. \nIf you’re interested in learning more about our Magic Grant offerings\, come to one of our upcoming information session where you can find out: \n\nThe types of projects we’re interested in supporting\nThe various types of support we offer to grantees & fellows\nEligibility guidelines\nHow our staff can help you develop your proposal\nHow to apply\n\nAt Columbia\, there will be sessions held on Thursday\, February 21 at 12:00pm and Thursday\, March 7 at 5:00pm; both held in the Brown Institute (Pulitzer Hall). Office hours are also offered every Thursday from 1-3pm. To register for office hours\, please visit brwn.co/questions.
URL:https://brown.stanford.edu/event/magic-grant-information-session/
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/Los_Angeles:20190220T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190220T170000
DTSTAMP:20260403T144951
CREATED:20190131T225310Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190131T225310Z
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SUMMARY:Magic Grant Information Session
DESCRIPTION:We’ll go over a brief overview of the Brown Institute’s history and work\, and give an outline of  our Magic Grants program and policies. \nOpen office hours will also be held through February and March (except February 8) in Gates 176\, Fridays 1:30-4. Please email Ann Grimes to confirm or request an alternate time.
URL:https://brown.stanford.edu/event/magic-grant-information-session-3/
LOCATION:Brown Institute at Stanford\, 355 Serra Mall\, Stanford\, CA\, 94305
CATEGORIES:Info Sessions
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ORGANIZER;CN="Brown Institute @ Stanford":MAILTO:brown_institute@stanford.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190220T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190220T130000
DTSTAMP:20260403T144951
CREATED:20190128T182428Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190128T182428Z
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SUMMARY:Mapping Module 2 - Census Data and Geocoding
DESCRIPTION: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. With the popularization of cartography\, anyone with a computer and an internet connection can make a map\, yet in news organizations\, the practices of cartography and GIS have remained largely in domain of engineering and graphics teams\, not with reporters. \nThis module will teach journalists how to make use of spatial data. Using tools common to all graphics desks\, students will learn how to find and tell stories using maps. The module is five weeks and will cover everything from spatial analysis to map design. It will take place 10am-1pm every Friday\, from February 13 – March 13. \nRegister for the workshop at brwn.co/map19. Please direct any questions to Michael Krisch (mkrisch@columbia.edu) or Juan Saldarriaga (juan.saldarriaga@columbia.edu).
URL:https://brown.stanford.edu/event/mapping-module-2-census-data-and-geocoding/
LOCATION:Brown Institute at Columbia\, 2950 Broadway\, New York\, NY\, 10027\, United States
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ORGANIZER;CN="Brown Institute @ Columbia":MAILTO:browninstitute@columbia.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190216T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190216T170000
DTSTAMP:20260403T144951
CREATED:20190128T190748Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190128T190748Z
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SUMMARY:Transparency Series Workshop: Data Visualization with Agnes Change\, ProPublica
DESCRIPTION:Data visualization has become a multipurpose tool in journalistic practice. It allows us to see patterns in data and to discover new stories\, as well as to insightfully communicate our findings. In this day-long workshop\, Agnes Chang from ProPublica will guide us through basic data visualization tools and skills\, delving into the design process and some of the graphic strategies that make the best data visualization pieces so successful. During the day we will touch upon the multiple aspects of data visualization: from exploring and cleaning up a dataset\, to crafting the narrative of the piece\, to designing its graphic aspects\, to coding its interactive elements. \nAgnes Chang is an editorial experience designer at ProPublica. Previously\, she spent six years at the New York Times where she launched the company’s proprietary 360 video player and also led user strategy and daily operations for NYT Cooking\, one of the Times’ most popular products. More recently\, Agnes has served as an adjunct professor at Parsons School of Design and Columbia University. She is a graduate of Wellesley College and has an M.S. in Media Arts & Science from the MIT Media Lab.
URL:https://brown.stanford.edu/event/transparency-series-workshop-data-visualization-with-agnes-change-propublica/
LOCATION:Brown Institute at Columbia\, 2950 Broadway\, New York\, NY\, 10027\, United States
CATEGORIES:Transparency Series
ORGANIZER;CN="Brown Institute @ Columbia":MAILTO:browninstitute@columbia.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190215T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190215T183000
DTSTAMP:20260403T144951
CREATED:20190128T190654Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190210T185612Z
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SUMMARY:Transparency Series Seminar: Data Visualization with Jeremy White\, NYTimes
DESCRIPTION:Maps\, charts\, and graphs have become an almost essential part of the journalistic practice\, as well as the centerpiece of many published pieces. But how can we best incorporate these tools into our investigative process\, and how do we design them to be as engaging and insightful as possible? Join us for a conversation with Jeremy White\, graphics editor at The New York Times\, who will share with us some of the lessons learned and the details behind the crafting of pieces such as the now famous Snow Fall: The Avalanche at Tunnel Creek\, and Reshaping New York\, and the more contemporary Antarctic Dispatches\, See Inside Typhoon Mangkhut and the Times Olympics coverage. \nJeremy White is a graphics editor for The New York Times and an adjunct professor at Columbia University. He has contributed to a variety of visual projects that have earned several Emmy nominations\, a Peabody award\, and top honors from the Society of News Design\, World Press Photo and Pictures of the Year International. Prior to joining the Times\, he created motion\, interactive and print graphics for the company he founded in 1998\, blueshirt\, serving clients such as Toyota\, Fiat\, Sony\, and Microsoft.
URL:https://brown.stanford.edu/event/transparency-series-seminar-data-visualization-with-jeremy-white-nytimes/
LOCATION:Brown Institute at Columbia\, 2950 Broadway\, New York\, NY\, 10027\, United States
CATEGORIES:Transparency Series
ORGANIZER;CN="Brown Institute @ Columbia":MAILTO:browninstitute@columbia.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190214T040000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190214T180000
DTSTAMP:20260403T144951
CREATED:20180802T142925Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190213T133749Z
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SUMMARY:Distinguished Lectures in Computational Innovation:  Yi-Min Chee
DESCRIPTION:Blockchain: A Solutions Perspective \nYi-Min Chee\nSenior Technical Staff Member and Chief Architect\, IBM Food Trust Blockchain Solution \nAbstract. Blockchain technology has moved beyond the realm of cryptocurrencies to start to address business problems for enterprises of all sizes. In this talk\, Yi-Min Chee will give an overview of blockchain and the different types of blockchain networks in existence. He will discuss why blockchain is relevant for businesses\, with a particular focus on permissioned blockchain networks. He will also introduce some use cases and actual blockchain solutions that are in production today. Finally\, Yi-Min Chee will describe the typical components of a blockchain solution built on the Hyperledger Fabric and cover some of the challenges and aspects that must be considered in the design\, architecture\, and implementation of blockchain-based solutions. \nAbout Yi-Min Chee. Yi-Min Chee is a Senior Technical Staff Member and Chief Architect for the IBM Food Trust blockchain solution. He has been involved with architecting and developing blockchain-based solutions since 2015 and served as the technical lead for IBM’s first production blockchain solution. Since joining IBM at the Thomas J. Watson Research Center\, he has worked in a variety of areas ranging from incremental compilers and programming environments for C++\, to tools\, interfaces\, and standards for pen-based devices\, and cognitive analytics for learning and computational creativity. He received his Bachelor’s degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and his Master’s degree from Columbia University\, both in Computer Science. \n\nAt 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 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.
URL:https://brown.stanford.edu/event/distinguished-lectures-in-computational-innovation-chee/
LOCATION:Brown Institute at Columbia\, 2950 Broadway\, New York\, NY\, 10027\, United States
ORGANIZER;CN="Brown Institute @ Columbia":MAILTO:browninstitute@columbia.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190213T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190213T130000
DTSTAMP:20260403T144951
CREATED:20190128T182021Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190128T182021Z
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SUMMARY:Mapping Module 1 - Introduction to Mapping
DESCRIPTION: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. With the popularization of cartography\, anyone with a computer and an internet connection can make a map\, yet in news organizations\, the practices of cartography and GIS have remained largely in domain of engineering and graphics teams\, not with reporters. \nThis module will teach journalists how to make use of spatial data. Using tools common to all graphics desks\, students will learn how to find and tell stories using maps. The module is five weeks and will cover everything from spatial analysis to map design. It will take place 10am-1pm every Friday\, from February 13 – March 13. \nRegister for the workshop at brwn.co/map19. Please direct any questions to Michael Krisch (mkrisch@columbia.edu) or Juan Saldarriaga (juan.saldarriaga@columbia.edu).
URL:https://brown.stanford.edu/event/mapping-module-1-introduction-to-mapping/
LOCATION:Brown Institute at Columbia\, 2950 Broadway\, New York\, NY\, 10027\, United States
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ORGANIZER;CN="Brown Institute @ Columbia":MAILTO:browninstitute@columbia.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190130T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190130T190000
DTSTAMP:20260403T144951
CREATED:20190110T195356Z
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SUMMARY:2018-2019 SPEAKER SERIES: FELICE FRANKEL
DESCRIPTION:SCIENCE PHOTOGRAPHER & MIT RESEARCH SCIENTIST\n\nOn 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 accurate and visually stunning.\n\nThe “Image and Meaning” workshop will guide students and researchers to collaboratively develop new approaches to represent research data and concepts. The goal of the Master Class is to help scientists\, writers\, and visual communicators develop and share improved methods of communicating scientific concepts and technical information through images and visual representations. \nWednesday January 30\, Noon to 3PM\nBrown Institute for Media Innovation Room 176\nGates Computer Science Building\n353 Serra Mall\nStanford University \nIn her evening discussion “Picturing Science and Engineering\,” Frankel will encourage the reader to learn by doing\, following as she recreates the stages of discovery that lead to a good science visual. She will describe how developing the right visual to express a concept not only helps make science accessible to nonspecialists but also informs the science itself. \nWednesday\, January 30\, 5:30PM\nCypress Auditorium\n101X Allen Extension\n330 Serra Mall\nStanford University\n\nRSVP for the talk is requested. REGISTRATION FOR WORKSHOP REQUIRED.
URL:https://brown.stanford.edu/event/the-brown-institute-for-media-innovation-2018-2019-speaker-series/
LOCATION:Cypress Auditorium\, Allen Extension\, 420 Via Palou Mall\, Stanford\, CA\, 94305\, United States
CATEGORIES:Media Innovators Speakers Series,Trainings
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181208T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181208T170000
DTSTAMP:20260403T144951
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SUMMARY:Transparency Series Workshop: Reporting on Devices with Consumer Reports
DESCRIPTION:Most consumer advocacy is based on a definition of consumer rights anchored on two things: value and safety. While these issues are perennial concerns for consumers\, they don’t capture the larger threats posed by the 21st C marketplace: reductions in individual agency and control. Amazon\, Google\, Facebook\, and the other corporate powers offer products that don’t pose traditional ‘safety’ threats. In this workshop we start with the hypothesis that the consumer movement has mostly ‘solved for the 20th C.’ Products are better\, safer\, and cheaper than ever. That what we need\, instead\, is a new framework anchored in contemporary threats to agency and control. And from this framework\, new models for product ratings\, consumer decision-making\, and so on\, for evaluating network-connected devices and “apps.” We will explore this new terrain through the lens of Consumer Reports’ new Digital Standard. We will apply both technical as well as analytical tools to examine how to report on connected devices and “apps.” \nApply for the workshop at transparency.brown.columbia.edu.
URL:https://brown.stanford.edu/event/transparency-series-workshop-reporting-on-devices-with-consumer-reports/
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/New_York:20181206T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181206T200000
DTSTAMP:20260403T144951
CREATED:20180829T201005Z
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SUMMARY:Knowing Together - Exhibition
DESCRIPTION:Knowing Together is a project exploring the dimensions of intimacy through 3D scanning. The exhibition was born out of a workshop and commissioned by the 2018 Myers Fund at EdLab Teachers College in collaboration with the Brown Institute’ Creative Technologist Rosalie Yu. The exhibition opens December 6\, 2018 and will be on display for six weeks. Details about the workshop that helped inspire and produce this exhibition below. \n\nThe project will begin with a workshop where the artist and a group of strangers learn photogrammetry\, a technique for creating 3D models of objects by combining photographs from multiple angles. The group will then form a circle and pass around a camera to progressively capture a 3D image as the two strangers embrace platonically for the duration of the scan. Each embrace will be 3D printed and exhibited as a sculpture in the Teachers College library in December. The entire group will be credited as creators of these sculptures\, which will be displayed alongside raw captured images\, video footage\, and other source materials from the creation of these sculptures.
URL:https://brown.stanford.edu/event/knowing-together-exhibition/
LOCATION:Offit Gallery | Teachers College\, 525 West 120th Street Russell Hall 3th floor\, New York City\, NY\, 10027\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181204T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181204T133000
DTSTAMP:20260403T144951
CREATED:20180921T180011Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180921T180559Z
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SUMMARY:Media Innovation Seminar: Rethinking Audio with Matt Stuart and Micah Collins
DESCRIPTION:Matt Stuart is Head of Google Home Product Planning and launch for the Google Home product group (Google Home\,Home Mini\, and Home Max\, as well as Chromecast and Google Wifi). Micah Collins is Director of Product Management at Google\, overseeing software and hardware teams including Chromecast\, Chromecast Audio\, Chromecast Ultra\, Google Home\, GoogleHome Mini\, Google Home Max. The two will discuss latest developments in audio devices: software\, hardware\, interfaces and implications for the news.
URL:https://brown.stanford.edu/event/media-innovation-seminar-rethinking-audio-with-matt-stuart-and-micah-collins/
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:20181203T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181203T183000
DTSTAMP:20260403T144951
CREATED:20180921T010030Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20181016T134006Z
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SUMMARY:Transparency Series Seminar: Reporting on Devices with Surya Mattu
DESCRIPTION:More than ever\, objects in our homes and on our person are connected\, sharing data about our lived experience with companies and with the public. How do we measure what our devices collect about us\, and more importantly\, what they share? Join us for a conversation with Surya Mattu\, an artist\, engineer and journalist who will share with us a variety of stories that investigate connected devices. Mattu is currently an investigative reporter at The Markup\, an R&D Journalism Resident at Eyebeam and a Research Scientist at the Center for Civic Media. Previously\, Mattu was a contributing researcher at ProPublica and Gizmodo. \nFor registration and more information\, go to transparency.brown.columbia.edu
URL:https://brown.stanford.edu/event/transparency-series-seminar-reporting-on-devices-with-surya-mattu/
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:20181127T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181127T133000
DTSTAMP:20260403T144951
CREATED:20180921T175609Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180921T181656Z
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SUMMARY:Media Innovation Seminar: Innovations in Computational Photography with Josh Haner
DESCRIPTION:Josh Haner is a Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer and Senior Editor for Photo Technology at The New York Times. In this talk Josh will discuss the latest innovations in computational photography\, including the use of drones.
URL:https://brown.stanford.edu/event/media-innovation-seminar-innovations-in-computational-photography-with-josh-haner/
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:20181117T103000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181117T170000
DTSTAMP:20260403T144951
CREATED:20180921T010050Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20181116T142354Z
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SUMMARY:Transparency Series Workshop: Voice Interfaces with Washington Post & NPR
DESCRIPTION:Authoring experiences for a voice assistant or smart speaker is a combination of several distinct skillsets. Some conversational interfaces are driven by keywords\, depending on users stating specific terms\, while others involve artificial intelligence to create more natural conversations around content. The content itself is a product of both editorial work as well as programming effort to implement the conversation in code. In this workshop\, students will prototype a journalistic application for a smart speaker. We will focus on Amazon’s Alexa platform and use simple graphical interfaces to design content delivery. Emphasis will be on developing insights into what makes a good conversation\, reformatting and focusing on journalism that translates well to the platform.
URL:https://brown.stanford.edu/event/transparency-series-workshop-voice-interfaces-with-npr/
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/New_York:20181116T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181116T183000
DTSTAMP:20260403T144951
CREATED:20180921T010036Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20181116T152026Z
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SUMMARY:Transparency Series Seminar: Voice Interfaces with Joseph Price of Washington Post and Tommy O'Keefe\, Vincent Farquharson & Nara Kasbergen of NPR
DESCRIPTION:Voice assistants are changing the way people search for and consume content. By one estimate\, half of the adults in the US make use of voice interfaces — for now\, mostly on their smartphones. But with the steady improvement of voice recognition\, smart speakers like Amazon’s Echo\, Google Home\, Apple’s HomePod constitute new platforms for accessing information. How will journalism fare in this new ecosystem? Obviously\, a direct reading of news stories written for the print or the web will tax the capabilities of current speech synthesis — not to mention the patience of a listener. In this discussion\, we will get an overview of the current voice experience ecosystem and hear about the voice promised land: why voice interfaces are so powerful and alluring and what the future will look like. We will also hear about first hand experiences from folks at The Washington Post and NPR. \nFor registration and more information\, go to transparency.brown.columbia.edu.
URL:https://brown.stanford.edu/event/transparency-series-seminar-voice-interfaces-with-joseph-price/
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/New_York:20181114T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181114T203000
DTSTAMP:20260403T144951
CREATED:20181026T185317Z
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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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ORGANIZER;CN="Brown Institute @ Columbia":MAILTO:browninstitute@columbia.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181113T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181113T180000
DTSTAMP:20260403T144951
CREATED:20180921T171929Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20181023T214507Z
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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
DTSTAMP:20260403T144951
CREATED:20180802T142031Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180912T204535Z
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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:20260403T144951
CREATED:20181019T132831Z
LAST-MODIFIED: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:20260403T144951
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
DTSTAMP:20260403T144951
CREATED:20180921T171605Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20181019T002103Z
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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
DTSTAMP:20260403T144951
CREATED:20180921T174603Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180921T174603Z
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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:20260403T144951
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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