The Launch of a New Tool, the Trans News…
In an article titled “Visualizing Trans Coverage: A new tool, the Trans News Initiative, draws from data to reveal patterns and proportions,” Columbia Journalism Review author Carolina Abbott Galvão looked at The Trans News Initiative’s (TNI) “collection of 190,000 articles organized under 13 themes.” Read more “The Launch of a New Tool, the Trans News Initiative Sheds Light on Coverage”
Computation + Journalism Symposium 2025 12/11+12
The deadline to submit proposals for talks, workshops, panels, and papers for C+J 2025 was Friday, September 12. The review committee is reading all submissions, and a full conference schedule will be released at the end of September. Read more “Computation + Journalism Symposium 2025 12/11+12”
The Housing Games: Alberto Cairo Helps Map Europe’s Housing…
A first-of-its-kind European project “The Housing Games” investigated whether the people essential to keep their cities running could still afford to live in them. From nurses and cleaners to teachers, drivers and first responders, they analyzed the cities’ key staff with the help of IDSC Visualization Director Dr. Alberto Cairo. Read more “The Housing Games: Alberto Cairo Helps Map Europe’s Housing Affordability”
Computation + Journalism Symposium 2025 12/11+12
Authoritarian movements are on the rise worldwide. This has led to the degradation or outright destruction of trustworthy data, and to increasingly hostile environments where attacks on knowledge-creation and -dissemination professions and institutions—journalism and academia included—are becoming everyday news. Read more “Computation + Journalism Symposium 2025 12/11+12”
EU High-Value Data Project Helps to Educate Readers on…
All countries within the European Union (EU) are required to generate special “high-value data sets” and to make them publicly available under the official portal for European data: data.europa.eu. These data sets include things like level of risk, such as poverty, inequality, unemployment, etc. Read more “EU High-Value Data Project Helps to Educate Readers on the Power of Visualization”
Catch the Replay: 2024-2025 IDSC Fellows’ Final Research Project…
On Thursday, April 24, 2025, from 3:00-5:00 PM, an audience gathered via Zoom and in person at the Richter Library 3rd floor conference room to hear the 2024-2025 IDSC Fellows give their final research project presentations. Did you miss it? Catch the replay on YouTube. Read more “Catch the Replay: 2024-2025 IDSC Fellows’ Final Research Project Presentations”
EU High-Value Data Project Helps to Educate Readers on…
All countries within the European Union (EU) are required to generate special “high-value data sets” and to make them publicly available under the official portal for European data: data.europa.eu. These data sets include things like level of risk, such as poverty, inequality, unemployment, etc. Read more “EU High-Value Data Project Helps to Educate Readers on the Power of Visualization”
Did you miss VizUM 2024? Catch the Replay on…
VizUM 2024: Beyond Data Visualization was held on Monday afternoon, November 11 (4:00-7:00 PM), at the Newman Alumni Center. The guest speakers were: Santiago Ortiz, Rahul Bhargava, and Lauren F. Klein who spoke on new or more inclusive ways of looking at or understanding visualization. This event was free and open to the public.
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Alberto Cairo Discusses the Present and Future of Visualization…
Alberto Cairo recently appeared on The PolicyBiz Podcast and shared that talking to Jon Schwabish is always a pleasure. Jon, he says, is one of the most active and knowledgeable people in the visualization world, author of a few really good books—Alberto’s favorite is Better Data Visualizations: A Guide for Scholars, Researchers, and Wonks, and, Alberto added, Jon is a great popularizer of their craft. Read more “Alberto Cairo Discusses the Present and Future of Visualization with Jon Schwabish”