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I'm an Assistant Professor at the University of Maryland, College Park College of Journalism. I study computational and data journalism with an emphasis on algorithmic accountability, narrative data visualization, and social computing in the news. I'm also a consultant specializing in research, design, and development for computational media applications. Find me on Twitter: @ndiakopoulos- Subscribe via RSS
Recent Posts
- Diversity in the Robot Reporter Newsroom
- The Anatomy of a Robot Journalist
- OpenVis is for Journalists!
- Computational Journalism and The Reporting of Algorithms
- Making Data More Familiar with Concrete Scales
- Storytelling with Data Visualization: Context is King
- Algorithmic Defamation: The Case of the Shameless Autocomplete
- Sex, Violence, and Autocomplete Algorithms: Methods and Context
- The Rhetoric of Data
- Data on the Growth of CitiBike
- 51% Foreign: Algorithms and the Surveillance State
- To Save Everything, Deliberate it Endlessly?
- Storytelling with Data: What Are the Impacts on the Audience?
- How does newspaper circulation relate to Twitter following?
- Neolithic Journalists? Influence Engines? Narrative Analytics? Some Thoughts on C+J
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I’m an Assistant Professor at the University of Maryland, College Park College of Journalism and a member of the UMD Human Computer Interaction Lab (HCIL). Previously I was a Tow Fellow at the Columbia University Journalism School. I study computational and data journalism with an emphasis on algorithmic accountability, narrative data visualization, and social computing in the news. My academic background is in Computer Science and Human-Computer Interaction (Ph.D. from the School of Interactive Computing at Georgia Tech). From 2009-2011 I was a Computing Innovation Fellow at the School of Communication and Information at Rutgers. See my CV for the full run-down.
I’m also a consultant and work on a range of research, design, and development projects. I mostly take on work where I can apply my expertise in data visualization, social media analytics, and user-experience design, with a bent towards news, information, and journalism. You can find out more about what I’m thinking and writing about on my blog, or contact me here.
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