Conferences

This week I attended three conferences - The Rightful Place of Science, Digital Democracies, and HASTAC 2019. The three were very different, but each gave me an opportunity to interact with other grad students and with professors of all levels. It was wonderful and exhausting. At HASTAC 2019, the plenary talks invoked themes of connection, of community. Speakers cited specifically where they learned a concept (“from an elder in Treaty 3”), why they used a particular framework (because it was used “by an elder who I’m accountable to”), and made a point to acknowledge the roles of other people in all of their work. ...

Today, I was honored to give the opening keynote at TexasCamp. The organizing team has done such a good job with this camp that the logistics have become invisible. Below is the video of my talk: ...

Before it all evaporates into internet ephemera, and in lieu of a proper blog post, here is my DrupalCon in tweets: Great start to the #DrupalCon Community Summit - unconference in progress. pic.twitter.com/u01siSdB4X ...

On March 31, I had the great opportunity to speak at TEDxASU. You can watch the video here:

I had the great privilege of being selected as a Sackler Symposium Student Fellow this year. The Fellows Symposium had 48 speakers presenting their work, and it was a long and wonderful whirlwind. You can see all of it at the early end of the #CreateCollab2018 hashtag. ...

For posterity, a few threads from this past week’s Sackler Colloquium. Maneesh Agrawala’s talk deconstructing data visualizations .@magrawala is deconstructing charts and graphs for us at #createcollab2018 @theNASciences — nikki stevens (@drnikki) March 13, 2018 A thread on Fernanda Viegas’s talk about Visualization in Machine Learning ...

Before it all evaporates into internet ephemera, and in lieu of a proper blog post, here is my OSSummit in tweets: Say hi if you are also at #OSSummit pic.twitter.com/hpr0xOLYgH — nikki stevens (@drnikki) September 11, 2017 .@realdanlyons is 💥💣talking about the toxicity of startups and the gig economy at #OSSummit pic.twitter.com/UGz93CCPEY ...