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Automating (In)Justice: Policing and Sentencing in the Algorithmic Age Data for Black Lives (D4BL)  is “a group of activists, organizers, and mathematicians committed to the mission of using data science to create concrete and measurable change in the lives of Black people.” This is a liveblog from the Automating (In)Justice […]

Data for Black Lives (D4BL)  is “a group of activists, organizers, and mathematicians committed to the mission of using data science to create concrete and measurable change in the lives of Black people.” This is a liveblog from the opening panel for the D4BL 2017 Inaugural Conference. Liveblogging contributed by […]

Online media is in a state of flux. Twitter, Facebook, blogs, so-called fake news – these are all recent developments that have radically altered the landscape of news and information online. We call this the “networked public sphere”, and the Media Cloud project was created to track and understand it. […]

Online media is in a state of flux. Twitter, Facebook, blogs, so-called fake news – these are all recent developments that have radically altered the landscape of news and information online.  We call this the “networked public sphere”, and the Media Cloud project was created to track and understand it. […]

Catherine D’Ignazio and I have launched a new DataBasic tool and activity, Connect the Dots, aimed at helping students and educators see how their data is connected with a visual network diagram. By showing the relationships between things, networks are useful for finding answers that aren’t readily apparent through spreadsheet data […]