Can journalists create compelling experiences out of their data stories? @NUJournalism Data Storytelling students created short participatory IRL data sculptures. Wonderful prototypes about graduation rates, dining costs, financial literacy & expected incomes. 📊+📹+👨‍👩‍👧‍👦=🤔💡

My colleague and mentor Ethan Zuckerman is suing Meta, making the novel & compelling case that part of Section 230 allows use to install 'middleware' tech that changes our feeds ( with Knight First Amendment Institute). 🤞🏽nytimes.com/2024/05/05/opi…

Computation social science Q: what do you find is the best research option for a contemporary dataset quantifying partisanship of US online news media sources? Our internal Media Cloud options used social-sharing-based metrics we can no longer replicate so they're dated.

Picking data mapping tools can be overwhelming . My Data Storytelling @NUJournalism students used Tableau Public, Datawrapper, and ArcGIS StoryMaps to write maps-based data stories on police body cameras, print news, life expectancies, Boston rent, and public bike use.

What's your fav robot? For me it's the dishwasher (or maybe laundry machine). What counts as a 'robot' has changed over time, and the same is happening with 'A.I.' Recent The Washington Post piece asked what readers vs. experts think counts as AI 🤨 washingtonpost.com/technology/int…

Worth your time: inspirational global data journalism work from winners of the 2024 sigmaawards sigmaawards.org/meet-the-winne…

📆TODAY! Boston friends: Join us at this year's Pop-Up Putt Putt showcase. One night only chance to play the interactive table-top mini-mini golf holes my students are making. ⛳️🤖👨🏽‍🎓 Northeastern CAMD Boston Cyberarts Center for Design | Northeastern University

I'll be presenting at CSVConf in Puebla May 29-30 🇲🇽📊🎉. Presenting 'Creative Data Representations for Social Justice Movements'. Data-related orgs looking to get in front of a diverse set of storytellers & devs should check out sponsorship opps. csvconf.com

Targeted laws limiting potential bad tech use are very compelling. A phone call should have to tell me I'm talking to an automated voice. Unauthorized deep fakes should carry penalties. Tennessee's law about faking artists' voices is interesting: buff.ly/3Tsc6mg

Weekend joy: serendipity led me to be one of the first to get my hands on a *physical copy* of Catherine D'Ignazio @[email protected]'s Counting Feminicide. Short summary: a must-read from anyone working on data activism and 'restorative/transformative' goals. mitpress.mit.edu/9780262048873/…

It's here! I'm thrilled to announce that my new book 'Counting Feminicide: Data Feminism in Action' with The MIT Press @mitpress.bsky.social is here! mitpress.mit.edu/9780262048873/…
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Weekend read: Raechel Walker building new pathways for 'data science to confront and mitigate systemic oppression' with African American students. media.mit.edu/publications/u…

Do you work on computation & journalism? Excited to share the C+J24 call for papers, workshops, talks and sessions is open. Submit your creative work by 6/1. Conference 10/25 in Boston hosted by @NUJournalism. buff.ly/3TGPRZZ

Boston friends: mark down Fri April 12th 5-7! Join us at this year's Pop-Up Putt Putt showcase. One night only chance to play the interactive table-top mini-mini golf holes my students are making. ⛳️🤖👨🏽‍🎓 Northeastern CAMD Boston Cyberarts Center for Design | Northeastern University