Three of us (Sands, Alexis & Rahul) were in India in mid January to lead a week long workshop for Indian undergraduates about Civic Innovation. Students and alumni from the MIT Media Lab have organized large Design Innovation workshops in India for the last few years, focused on a bottom-up […]
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Cross-posted from ethanzuckerman.com What’s a “holy shit visualization”? It’s a way of looking at data that makes turns a statistic you might have flipped past in a book or skimmed by on a web page into something that you can’t forget. It’s a visceral reminder of the power of images […]
This is a liveblog of a talk by Ramzi Jaber entitled Visualizing Impact: Data Driven Journalism in Palestine at MIT on February 27, 2015. It was blogged by Erhardt Graeff and Dalia Othman. Ramzi Jaber is the co-founder and co-director of Visualizing Palestine, an initiative to amplify civil society […]
This is a liveblog (not a transcription) of the talk “#StopEbola: What Nigeria Got Right” delivered February 17, 2015 by Aimee Corrigan at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society, Cambridge, MA. Aimee Corrigan is the Co-Director of Nollywood Workshops, “a hub for filmmakers in Lagos, Nigeria that supports and […]
We recently hosted a “From Sensors to Stories” workshop at Civic Media. We brought together individuals from organizations working in data collection and visualization – including Ushahidi, Safecast, WITNESS, and Public Lab – to discuss strategies for crafting narratives from data. The workshop included a discussion of issues and challenges […]