The middle of winter is cold and low on sun, but we had some snow so I went sledding with the kids ❄️🛷! Read on for book updates, notes on AI for good, and upcoming events. Keep an eye on the Data Culture Group blog for regular writing on computational journalism and creative data storytelling.

Get Community Data now for Kindle or in print in the UK. I’m still pushing for US availability, but you can pre-order for shipping dates in late Feb. It’s been wonderful to get feedback from some readers that are having their first change to learn about going beyond the visual, and others that feel validated by seeing lots of related work being highlighted. Read it already? Do me a favor and leave an Amazon review.

I’m increasingly getting asked to speak on community-connected approaches to “AI for Good”. Interesting to think about how that suggests that the default with AI might be “for bad” 🤨 Most of my related thoughts are reflections on work with the Counterdata Network and my work on AI-assisted content diversity audits for news. I’m hoping to do more of this pushing back on the AI marketing mythology to motivate more concrete pro-social applications. Two related academic papers are under review for publication late this year (🤞🏽).

I have a busy upcoming schedule because I’m trying to get in conversation about Community Data with lots of different groups. Drop me a line if you’re interested in scheduling an in-person or virtual talk. Here are some of my scheduled and tentative upcoming talks that might be near you:

Thanks for reading 🙏🏽

Rahul Bhargava

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