Center for Civic Media: Recent submissions

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    • Data Sculptures as a Playful and Low-Tech Introduction to Working with Data 

      Bhargava, Rahul; D'Ignazio, Catherine (Presented at Designing Interactive Systems, Edinburgh, Scotland, 2017)
      There is a large and growing population of novice learners entering the field of working with data to tell stories, but they face many challenges related to process, methods and tools. This paper argues that activities ...

    • Designing Tools and Activities for Data Literacy Learners 

      D'Ignazio, Catherine; Bhargava, Rahul (Wed Science: Data Literacy Workshop, 2015)
      Data-centric thinking is rapidly becoming vital to the way we work, communicate and understand in the 21st century. This has led to a proliferation of tools for novices that help them operate on data to clean, process, ...

    • CLIFF-CLAVIN: Determining Geographic Focus for News Articles 

      D'Ignazio, Catherine; Bhargava, Rahul; Zuckerman, Ethan; Beck, Luisa (NewsKDD: Data Science for News Publishing, at KDD 2014, 2014)
      The growing diversity of news sources available online has led to a signi cant methodological change in eld of global news coverage. Studies of media attention and framing require sophisticated analytic tools to permit ...