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• Data Visualization and the Future of Research

  by Joshua Greenberg, Lee Dirks, Marguerite Avery and Johan Bollen

  Data are the building blocks of information, fueling our algorithmic digital world. But with so much data being produced, how can we process it? Visualization techniques allow users to understand vast amounts of data that we can’t parse. Get up to speed on techniques of data visualization from scientific researchers and scholars working in informatics, computer science, and physics – and see how these tools can help you understand Twitter. And data analysis and visualization isn’t just for science. The digital humanities movement shows us that innovative data practices aren’t just for science anymore. See innovative digital humanities research in data mining and visualization that will have you thinking differently about literature and history. This panel focuses on developments in data visualization strategies but will also covers the basics of data, some major issues with data analysis and data visualization, and prominent theories of visualization.

  • Data Science
  • Data Visualization
  • Research
  • Twitter

  At 3:30pm to 4:30pm, Saturday 10th March

  In Capitol E-H, Sheraton Austin Hotel at the Capitol

  Coverage slide deck audio clip

• Tweeting Osama’s Death: From Citizen to Journalist

  by Steve Myers and Sohaib Athar

  Within hours of learning that Osama bin Laden had been killed in Pakistan, Twitter users realized that a man had unknowingly live-tweeted the raid. Sohaib Athar (@reallyvirtual) showed what happens when ordinary people, by chance, find themselves in the middle of newsworthy events: They act like journalists, sharing information, asking questions, and working with others to figure out what happened. The speed with which his tweets traveled the world show how Twitter can turbocharge simple acts of citizen journalism by spreading them to new audiences. Steve Myers, managing editor of the Poynter Institute’s website, will describe how Athar’s tweets illustrate citizen journalism practices and how U.S. journalists learned of them so quickly. Athar, in his first trip to the U.S. since bin Laden’s killing, will describe what happened, what it was like to be in the middle of an international media scrum, and how the incident has affected his views of the media and changed his use of Twitter.

  • Journalism
  • Twitter

  At 3:30pm to 4:30pm, Saturday 10th March

  In Creekside I & II, Sheraton Austin Hotel at the Capitol

  Coverage audio clip