Faculty
Current Students

Ray Christian Cristobal
Journalism Research Assistant at the Co-Lab Impact for Data
[email protected]Current Students’ Profiles
- Ray Christian Cristobal, College of Arts, Media and Design
- Zhaozhou Dai, College of Arts, Media and Design
- Emma Klekotka, College of Arts, Media and Design & Khoury College of Computer Sciences
- Annetta Stogniew, College of Arts, Media and Design & Khoury College of Computer Sciences
Former Students
- Amanda Brea, College of Arts, Media and Design & D’Amore-McKim School of Business
- Sofia Perez Aria, School of Journalism
- Dina Zemlyanker, Khoury College of Computer Sciences
- Corey Docker, Khoury College of Computer Sciences
- Kathleen Chesnutt, School of Journalism
- Claudia Stedt, College of Science
- Gabriela Horenstein, D’Amore-McKim School of Business
- Danica Jefferies, School of Journalism
- Armin Akhavan, College of Arts, Media, and Design, IDDV Program
- Sarah Campbell, College of Arts, Media, and Design, IDDV Program
- Yuan Hua, College of Arts, Media, and Design, IDDV Program
- Gibby, Khoury College of Computer Sciences
- Szu Yu Chen, Northeastern University’s School of Journalism
- Laura South, Khoury College of Computer Sciences PhD
- Alex Lim, Khoury College of Computer Sciences
- Anna Campbell, Media Innovation Program
- Lauren Vitacco, College of Arts, Media, and Design
- Nicholas Miklaucic, Khoury College of Computer Sciences
- Sam Chuan, College of Arts, Media and Design
- Leah Welch, College of Arts, Media, and Design
- Taylor Blackley, College of Arts, Media, and Design
- Yushu Tian, Northeastern University’s School of Journalism
- Daniela Rincon Reyes, Northeastern University’s School of Journalism
Projects
Current Projects:
Addressing Science-related Misinformation: Exploring Cross-Cultural Differences and NGO Responses
Software Tools to Support Climate Change Reporting: Addressing Gaps and Needs among Journalists
Climate Journalism and Social Media: Analyzing Practices on Twitter
User Engagement with Climate Activism on TikTok
Previous Projects (Fall 2019-2020):
- Diversity Explorer: Boston, Households, Entropy (in beta), which examines racial and linguistic variation across households in Boston, using Census microdata, and visualizes the data using metaphor;
- The 2020 Election Tracker (ongoing), which is part of the Storybench.org project’s efforts to provide novel insights on the U.S. election by analyzing news coverage and social media data. As part of this, the Co-Lab has been helping colleagues with the DebateVis project, run by the Northeastern InterVis Lab;
- The Fabric of Online Speech project (planning stage), which is leveraging social media data from Twitter, Reddit and Facebook to visualize contentious communications in digital space;
- Climate Narrative Explorer (in beta), which is building tools to analyze climate change coverage in more sophisticated ways, using sentiment analysis and examining narrative arcs in stories.
- The Computation + Journalism Symposium 2020, which is being hosted on March 20-21 at Northeastern University and which the Data Impact Co-Lab is helping to organize.
Remembrance of Climate Futures
Diversity Traces
Embodying Information
Data Against Feminicide
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dustzone
Simulated Dendrochronology of U.S. Immigration 1790-2016
Art of the March
Mapping Media and Politics
Maps of Daesh
The State Financial Disclosure Project
Publications
Cruz, P., Wihbey, J., Ghael, A., Costa, S., Chao, R., and Shibuya, F. 2018. “Process of simulating tree rings for immigration in the U.S.” In IEEE VIS Arts Program Annotated Projects. Berlin, Germany.
Cruz, P., Wihbey, J. 2018. “200 Years of U.S. Immigration Looks Like the Rings of a Tree.” National Geographic. [online]
Howe, J., Bajak, A., Kraft, D., and Wihbey, J. 2017. “Collaborative, Open, Mobile: A Thematic Exploration of Best Practices at the Forefront of Digital Journalism.” Storybench. [working paper, download]
Wihbey, J., Beaudet, M., and Cruz, P. 2017. “There are huge holes in how the U.S. states investigate politicians’ conflicts of interest.” Washington Post/Monkey Cage. [online]
De la Torre-Arenas, I. and Cruz, P. 2017. “A taxonomy of motion applications in data visualization.” In Proceedings of Expressive’17 – The joint symposium on Computational Aesthetics and Sketch Based Interfaces and Modeling and Non-Photorealistic Animation and Rendering, Los Angeles, article 7. [ACM]
Wihbey, J. and Beaudet, M. 2017. “State-level Policies for Personal Financial Disclosure: Exploring the Potential for Public Knowledge on Conflict-of-Interest Issues.” In Proceedings of Law & Policy Division, Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication Conference. [AEJMC]
Offenhuber, D.. 2017. Waste Is Information — Infrastructure Legibility and Governance. Cambridge: MIT Press [link]
Offenhuber, D. 2017. “Maps of Daesh – the Cartographic Warfare Surrounding Insurgent Statehood.” GeoHumanities. [pdf][link]
Sam, A. and Offenhuber, D. 2017. “Auditive Space – Its Limitations and Its Materiality.” GAM. Architecture Magazine, no. 13. [pdf]
Offenhuber, D. 2017. “Sticky data – context and friction in the use of urban data proxies.” In Data and the City. ed. Rob Kitchin, Tracey P. Lauriault, and Gavin McArdlel. New York: Routledge. [pdf]
Wihbey, J. and Beaudet, M. 2016. “Transparency, Corruption, and the Information Needs of Communities: The Case of Personal Financial Disclosure”. Northeastern University School of Law Research Paper No. 278-2016. [SSRN]
Offenhuber, D. 2016. “Urban Entropy.” In What Urban Media Art Can Do: Why When Where and How?, edited by Susa Pop, Tanya Toft, Nerea Calvillo, and Mark Wright. S.l.: Av Edition Gmbh.
Offenhuber, D. 2016. “The Transactionalization of Infrastructure as a Case for Accountability-Oriented Design”. Design and the City Conference, Amsterdam. [pdf]