Data journalism and civic technology organisation Code for Africa has received a US$4.7-million investment from the Bill and Melinda Gates foundation. According to a blog post written by Code for Africa head Justin Arenstein, the funding will be used to …

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In this episode, we talk with Catherine D’Ignazio (Emerson College, MIT Center for Civic Media), Don Blair (Public Laboratory of Science), Abbey Collins (Emerson College), and Amy Schmitz Weiss (San Diego State University) about education in the realm of sensor …

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The first official panel for the Sensor Journalism Series, with Matt Schroyer, Travis Hartman, Shah Selbe, and Willie Schubert took place on March 8th. There are several more events in the series, all of which can be found at http://sensorjournalism.okcast.org. …

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This first session in the Sensor Journalism Webinar Series discussed the Sensors & Journalism report from Columbia’s Tow Center with Fergus Pitt. You can view the archived video here. The next session is March 8th. You can see the schedule …

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Sensor Journalism Series hosted by the OKCast and Sensor Journalism Lab Some exciting news! There’s going to be a webinar series on sensor journalism starting in March 2015. This is a new experiment for us at the OKCast, using a …

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Lily Bui, Copyright Lily Bui, Used with Permission of Author In Episode 19 of the podcast, I talk with Lily Bui, a researcher and journalist exploring what she calls sensor journalism. Sensor journalism, as she says it, is a method of collecting …

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