The other week, the New York World published a data reporting project with the Guardian examining the NYPD’s controversial Stop, Question and Frisk policy. Last year NYPD Commissioner Kelly issued an order to curtail low-level marijuana arrests…

The Cyberscholar Working Group, a monthly gathering of researchers from Harvard, MIT, Yale and Columbia, met at Columbia’s Journalism School on March 27th in an event sponsored by the Tow Center. Here’s a roundup of the presentations:

The archived video of this event can also be accessed here.

A panel of six of journalism’s movers and shakers convened at Columbia Journalism School on March 28 to debate the current state of data-centered reporting and interactive visualizations.