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Alberto Cairo is Knight Chair in Visual Journalism at the University of Miami School of Communication.

In 2012 Dan Cohen, founding executive director of the Digital Public Library of America, wrote: Ive

increasingly felt that digital journalism and digital humanities are kindred spirits.

Inspired by this, the University of Miami is launching the rst Digital Humanities and Data Journalism

(DH+DJ) Symposium. It will take place at the universitys Newman Alumni Center between Sept. 29

Oct. 1 and is being sponsored by Knight Foundation, and the University of Miamis School of

Communication, Center for Computational Science, Richter Library and College of Arts and Sciences.

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Knight Chair Alberto Cairo, author and conference organizer.

The DH+DJ symposium will bring together two communities that share similar interests, face similar

challenges, and use largely the same software tools and programming languages to interrogate data.

It will be a relatively small gathering with an a endance limit of 150, and will consist of a series of talks,

roundtables and workshops on topics that are important to both areas and to their intersection, such

as big data management and analytics, e ective communication, data visualization and infographics,

mapping, etc.

The talks and workshops will be delivered by prominent names from both disciplines: Dan Cohen

himself, as well as ProPublicas Sco Klein, FiveThirtyEights Allison McCann, Mashables Haile Owusu,

Georgia Techs Lauren Klein, Stanford Universitys Geo McGhee, University of Miamis Paige Morgan,

Carnegie Mellons Sco Weingart, Northwestern University Knight Labs Joe Germuska, and many

others. Please refer to the website for a complete listing of talks and workshops.

The speakers will blend the theoretical with the practical. Northeastern Universitys Ben Schmidt, for

example, will discuss the technology and assumptions behind projects such as Gendered Language in

Teaching Evaluations; Liliana Bounegru and Jonathan Gray will explain how data journalists and

digital humanists can work together; Lynn Cherny will present strategies for text analysis that are

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useful for journalists and humanists; and Francis Tseng will focus on what lies ahead for both

communities, discussing arti cial intelligence and Big Data.

In addition to the structured events, a endants will have ample opportunity to network and engage in

discussions during co ee breaks, working lunches, receptions and dinners. The main goal of this

experimental gathering is to prompt these conversations. We expect them to be a major highlight of

the event, and we aim to create this opportunity on an annual basis.

To sign up for the rst Annual DH+DJ Symposium, follow this link.

Please note, we have reserved 25 tickets for students, at a discounted rate of $250. Others can apply

for a Knight-Mozilla OpenNews travel scholarship, which might cover part of your travel costs.

Contact Alberto Cairo via a.cairo@miami.edu and follow him on Twi er @albertocairo.

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