Logan Williams
I'm Logan, a technologist, journalist, birdwatcher and data artist from Oregon via Amsterdam. I like to look closely at nature, and in my art practice I explore the ways that technology mediates and augments human observation. I am also the Technology Officer for Bellingcat, a non-profit journalism NGO that develops open source methods for investigative journalism. There, I build tools for journalists to investigate and document war crimes, endangered species trafficking, and online extremism. Also ask me about: ecological data sources, computational photography, sonification, bird migration, D3.js, mothing, and what happens when you leave a Raspberry Pi in a creek for a year.
Sessions
What aircraft have been in Moscow and New York within 24 hours of each other? How many helicopters normally patrol this border? At Bellingcat, a Dutch investigative non-profit, we publish open-source journalism using open-source software tools. In this presentation, I'll talk about a new tool I've been building for querying airplane data, and the broader journalistic context of this data, which has become increasingly important for tracking oligarchs, deportations and conflict.
Birdsong is all around us, but is there a deeper meaning? Can computer analysis help us decipher these hidden patterns in our own backyards? This talk charts my journey exploring the world of open source projects for bird (and bat!) audio identification, some of the systems I've operated, and the data art pieces I've created from the results. From the science of migration, to machine learning models and data visualization, to bioethics, there's something for every hacker to be inspired by.