A Critque: "How to lie with data visualization" @NYU ITP, 3/13/14, 12:30pm

This one looks really interesting...

"Disinformation Visualization: How to lie with Datavis (and other works)"

A lecture by Mushon Zer-Aviv,

March 13, 2014, 12:30 pm to 2:00 pm

NYU ITP, 721 Broadway, 4th Floor

http://itp.nyu.edu/sigs/news/event-disinformation-visualization/

Designers, statisticians, journalists, researchers and technologists often apply visualization techniques in an attempt to get the big picture out of large quantities of data. In this rush towards informational imagery both creators and viewers are often taken by the lure of what Edward Tufte defines as “beautiful evidence”. But is information visualization indeed just another type of evidence, or is it a form of visual argument? Mushon Zer-Aviv would talk about the dark side of datavis and would discuss some of his own creative work in this theme including WikipediaIllustrated.org, The Turing Normalizing Machine (mushon.com/tnm) and his work with the Public Knowledge Workshop (hasadna.org.il).

Mushon Zer-Aviv is a designer, an educator and a media activist based in NY & Tel Aviv. His work involves media in public space and public space in media. Among Mushon’s collaborations, he is the co-founder of Shual.com - a foxy design studio; YouAreNotHere.org - a tour of Gaza through the streets of Tel Aviv; Kriegspiel - a computer game version of the Situationist Game of War; the Turing Normalizing Machine - exploring algorithmic prejudice; Alef - the open source multi-script font; the Collaborative-Futures.org collaboratively authored book; and multiple government transparency and civic participation initiatives with the Public Knowledge Workshop; Mushon is also in charge of map design at Waze.com. Mushon is an honorary resident at Eyebeam - an art and technology center in New York. He teaches digital media as a faculty member of Shenkar School of Engineering and Design. Previously he taught new media research at NYU and Open Source design at Parsons the New School of Design and in Bezalel Academy of Art & Design. Mushon blogs at Mushon.com. Follow him at @mushon."

Panel @Columbia, 2/27/14: Research Without Borders: Negotiating Constraints and Open Scholarship

“Research Without Borders: Negotiating Constraints and Open Scholarship”, 1-3pm on Thursday, February 27, 2014 in Garden Room 1 of Columbia University’s Faculty House. It is free and open to the public. No RSVP is required. http://cdrs.columbia.edu/cdrsmain/2014/02/3043/

Panel description: How is research produced, accessed, and distributed in the presence of constraints? What does it mean for underserved communities to have research openly accessible to them? How does community participation in research change the nature of that research, and how do academia and society benefit? How and why should academic work be made available to the public? Points of discussion will include: exploring the ways research is being made openly accessible to overcome these constraints, how and why researchers have incorporated community participation into their projects, and alternative scholarship distribution models. Our panelists are Leith Mullings, Distinguished Professor of Anthropology at CUNY, Dennis Tenen, Assistant Professor of Digital Humanities and New Media Studies at Columbia University in the Department of English and Comparative Literature, and Lela Prashad, co-founder and Chief Data Scientist at NiJeL. Moderating the panel is Manan Ahmed, Assistant Professor of History at Columbia University. This event is co-sponsored by Columbia University Libraries/Information Services’ Scholarly Communication Program and the Digital Humanities Center.

GIS & Spatial Databases Workshops at Baruch

Frank Donnelly, Geospatial Data Librarian & Assistant Professor at Baruch College Library is teaching two GIS workshops at Baruch for CUNY faculty/staff/grad students:

• Workshop: GIS Practicum, Introduction to GIS Using Open Source Software (using QGIS), this semester at the Baruch College Library. There are three, day-long sessions on Fridays: Feb 28th, Apr 4th, and May 2nd. Each session is identical. Advance registration is required, cost is $30 and includes a tutorial manual and light breakfast. For more information and to register: http://guides.newman.baruch.cuny.edu/gis/gisprac
• Also offered: half-day sessions on spatial databases (using QGIS and Spatialite) on Fri Apr 11th, details and registration for that session are here: http://guides.newman.baruch.cuny.edu/gis/spatialdb

Panel @NYU, 2/11/14--Using Digital Tools in the Classroom and in Research

Panel discussion: Using Digital Tools in the Classroom and in Research -  NYU, Tues. Feb. 11, 2014, 5:30-7:30

http://humanitiesinitiative.org/events/event-registration/?ee=39

Since academia is continually enhanced and challenged by emerging technologies, faculty and students have the opportunity to explore new ways to integrate technology into their research. Join us to hear a panel of faculty and graduate students present case studies of successful digital projects for teaching and to share best practices and new approaches to using technology in their research.

Panelists: Maeve Adams, Assistant Professor, English, Manhattan College; Collin Jennings, PhD Candidate, English Department, FAS, NYU; Nicole Starosielski, Assistant Professor, Department of Media, Culture and Communication, Steinhardt, NYU; Nicholas Wolf, Assistant Professor/Faculty Fellow, Irish Studies, FAS, NYU; Moderated by Jennifer Vinopal, Librarian for Digital Scholarship Initiatives at NYU

The Humanities Initiative at NYU

20 Cooper Square

Fifth Floor

New York, NY

10003

United States

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Date: February 11, 2014

Start Time: 5:30 pm

End Time: 7:30 pm