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Interview with Ivy Reyes: A/B Testing What Counts

  Panelists Vanessa Janowski of Vari Solutions, Ivy Reyes of Pinterest, Maisy Samuelson of Shutterstock and Cinna Wu of Facebook hosted the panel Back-End to the Future: A/B Testing What Counts on Saturday at SXSW. A/B testing refers to experimenting with two different variants of a variable or software and seeing what a user’s preference […]

Immigration Narratives in Mainstream Media: An Interview With Sarah Stillman

Media narratives play a vital role in the formation of public opinion and policy, particularly in terms of immigration. The panel Creating New Stories of Immigration focused on how these narratives are interacting with our current political environment. Panelists also discussed a variety of new techniques media professionals can use to frame immigration more positively. I had […]

Do You Question the Nature of Your Reality?

SXSW is split into Music, Interactive, and Film. Arguably, however, the best of what’s out there is what nestles in between: it’s in the the crossover conversations and the connections. At 3:30pm in the Austin Convention Center, thousands gathered to hear the cast of HBO’s Westworld discuss control, reality, and AI. Thandie Newton recognized the […]

On Puerto Rico: When Natural Disasters Need Technology

In September 2017, the U.S. territory of Puerto Rico was devastated by Hurricane Maria. It was a disaster of historic proportions, and reports have said that the island will never be the same. It has been six months since the hurricane changed the lives of every Puerto Rican, and it has ensued a fraught conversation […]