On June 21st, middle and high school students in Brazil’s northern city of Santarém took to the streets in the city center to raise awareness about a crisis with school lunches. The event was organized by the Student Pact for Education in Pará in partnership with the state Public Prosecutor’s […]
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What does civic innovation look like in México? There are efforts across the nation to build skills, interest, and capacity for civic technology. Last week I contributed to these by facilitating a workshop for youth in Mérida, Mexico on the topic of Civic Innovation. It was organized and hosted at […]
How are mass collaboration and open data changing the ways we do social science? While we’re used to thinking about data science as a major impact of computation on the study of human behavior, changes in scientific collaboration are driving even more fundamental change in the study of human behavior. […]
I recently gave a short talk at a Data Science event put on by Deloitte here in Boston. Here’s a short write up of my talk. Data science and big data driven decisions are already baked into business culture across many fields. The technology and applications are far ahead of our reflections […]
This is a draft piece for a larger project called The Visual Catalogue of Uncertainty in Data that I’m just beginning with Mushon Zer-Aviv that seeks to catalog the ways in which the data never, under any circumstances, speak for themselves. Gender data is often more complicated than it […]