Lighting Up the Dark Web

What do sex-trafficking, jihad finance, and propaganda have in common? They happen online, in the darkness of usernames and vastness of big data. Technology can help us navigate information. Because a single act feels tragic, and a million tragic acts become statistics, we also need compelling story-telling that combines data and narrative. We will explore how the democratization of artificial intelligence and user interfaces for interacting with data can construct meaning in a post-truth world.