In Tokyo Boogie-Woogie: Japan’s Pop Era and Its Discontents, the historian Hiromu Nagahara describes a Japanese government meeting convened during the second World War. A wartime ban had been placed on American popular music, and so officials were serenaded instead by the popular nationalist songs of the day, including “Over […]
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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 […]
Liveblog of Winter Mason’s talk at MIT sponsored by the MIT Gov/Lab on 13 November 2017. All errors are mine. Moving voter knowledge is hard but possible. Winter starts by introducing the unusually large research team serving the Civic Engagement products at Facebook. Civic engagement is one of the five […]
This is a live blog account from the Data For Equity: The Power of Data to Promote Justice event. Barbara Best, Executive Director, Center for Public Leadership, introduces the panel. The moderator is Yeshimabeit Milner, the Executive Director and Founder of Data for Black Lives which uses data science […]