The Data Culture Group builds collaborative projects to interrogate our datafied society with a focus on rethinking participation and power in data processes. Our work generally fall into the categories of applied computational journalism or creative data representation. Led by Professor Rahul Bhargava, we are a part of the College of Arts, Media and Design at Northeastern University.
Recent Blog Posts
We think out loud, sharing our process and research via blog posts. Consider our blog as our open notebook, full of sketches and under-construction ideas.
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Keynote at Information is Beautiful 2023 Awards I was honored to be invited to give a keynote at the 2023 Information is Beautiful Awards - Day of Inspiration, hosted by the Data Visualization Society. In the talk, called “Questioning Our Data Cultures” I decided to introduce some ideas from the book I’m working on, specifically abou...
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Creative Data Viz as Epistemological Resistance (AoIR 2023 talk) I attended the Association of Internet Researchers 2023 conference last week in Philadelphia, where I presented my research on rethinking how we represent data in social justice and community settings. Read the short paper.
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Here are the updates you need on artificial intelligence in journalism I’m continuing my series of round-ups on artificial intelligence and journalism. Here are some recent links you might want to read.
- Here are the latest updates on artificial intelligence in journalism
It seems like artificial intelligence is everywhere in the news, particularly in digital journalism circles. I’m keeping an eye on ongoing developments and will share an occasional round-up of links that might be relevant to you. Here’s what was happening in the last few weeks.
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A New Tool To Help Understand Partisan News in the US The latest Zelda game is being covered a lot more in Democrat-serving online news sites. That’s one of the first random tidbits I noticed in “On Our Own Terms”, a new tool built by Claire Pan and I as part of the Media Could project.
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Teaching Physical Computing with Mini-Mini Golf 🤖⛳️🎉 My family knows one thing about vacationing with me: if we’re anywhere near a mini-golf course we’ll have to stop and play it. Waterfalls, windmills, pirates, animals — I love it all. This semester I was teaching Physical Computing course again, and I wondered… could I combine my love o...
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Data journalism? You can do it. Data is still hot, but the new skills, math, and technologies can feel overwhelming. In my experience journalism students and professionals approach learning data journalism with both excitement and trepidation. However, over a decade of teaching data literacy to many types of learners ...
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Digital Storytelling to Support Connective Journalism Journalism serves many roles in society - informative, investigative, normative, and more. As the tools and pratices of interactive digital storytelling continue to grow, how can they help the connective role journalism plays in society? Read on for some background and a recent experim...
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New Paper: Taking Data Feminism to School Excited to share a new paper out in the British Journal of Educational Technology. I worked with collaborators to assess what data feminism looks like in K-12 data science education. We retrospectively review 42 youth data programs and projects, assessing each against the key principles...
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Upcoming AMC FAccT Talk: Towards Intersectional Feminist and Participatory ML We’ll be presenting our collaborative work on the Data Against Feminicide project at the 2022 ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability and Transparency. We’re very excited to put forward this work as a case study in intersectional feminist and participatory approaches to machine learn...
