Chicago Studies

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. The growing torrent of information released by city governments and collected by researchers is connecting with new tools developed by computer scientists, enabling significant advances in urban planning, medicine, social science and other spheres. On November 20, 2013 representatives of those fields gathered onstage for Chicago: City of Big Data, a UChicago Discovery Series panel discussion of research and educational efforts focused on transforming cities through data and computation. In a vibrant 90-minute conversation moderated by Charlie Catlett, director of the Urban Center for Computation and Data (UrbanCCD), the panelists described work underway at the University of Chicago and Argonne National Laboratory and outlined their visions for the future of data-driven urban design and governance.

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. University of Chicago students and Assistant Professor of African History Rachel Jean-Baptiste discuss the class “African Women in Chicago." The class is one of many offered under the umbrella of Chicago Studies, a program in the College designed to help students understand the city they live in, and to generate original research about Chicago.

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. University of Chicago students and Assistant Professor of African History Rachel Jean-Baptiste discuss the class “African Women in Chicago." The class is one of many offered under the umbrella of Chicago Studies, a program in the College designed to help students understand the city they live in, and to generate original research about Chicago.