…websites in the USA. Understanding the design of these websites helped identify various approaches to the digital needs of the community, which we will use as a starting point for…
Digitizing Boston’s Powerful Chinatown Neighborhood History
…communities with flourishing local businesses, community programs, and places of worship. Similar to many majority-immigrant communities in Boston and throughout the country, Chinatown was targeted for large-scale urban renewal projects…
Using Named Entity Recognition on the East Boston Community News
…still seems out of reach, those numbers are still significant. However, as Tena BeliniΔ writes, when it comes to processing non-English languages, the task becomes much more difficult. As Al-Rfou,…
Diversity Explorer
…project, which is based on data from the 2016 American Community Survey, also enables the BRC team to consider methods for building tools that use modified datasets published by other…
Neighborhood Public Art: Bringing Public Data Together
Project background How does a city create space for a vibrant arts community? What is the role of public art across a city? How does a city support the development…
Mission Hill 100
…Project Details Journalism—especially when it’s practiced at the community level—is a statement about who we are now, an often provisional look at what unites us, what divides us and what…