Lede program at Columbia
Columbia University in New York is running an amazing-looking data journalism certificate called The Lede Program. The program director is Cathy O’Neill of mathbabe.org and Occupy Finance, and the program advisor is Mark Hansen, statistician, computational scientist, and artist.
Anyway, their syllabus (and quite a bit of other content) is available on Github.
I’d like to quote a course outline by Cathy O’Neill
This course begins with the idea that computing tools are the products of human ingenuity and effort. They are never neutral and carry with them the biases of their designers and their design process. “Platform studies” is a new term used to describe investigations into these relationships between computing technologies and the creative or research products that they help to generate. How you understand how data, code, and algorithms affect creative practices can be an effective first step toward critical thinking about technology.
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