The Arts in an Evolutionary Moment with Marlon Torres @TomTomFoundation

Uploaded October 2020 | Updated September 2026, 8 hours ago

Join us for a Changemaker Session—this time, artist workshop style! Chat with other session participants from around the country about how food connects us to family legacy with Family Arts Museum founder, Melani Douglass.

Marlon Torres, Executive Director, NC Arts in Action
Keep Your Partners Close: A Dance Performance on Trust & Communication

This week of programming was sponsored by Elizabeth Firestone Graham Foundation.

The Arts in an Evolutionary Moment with Marlon Torres

Machine Learning Conference - Eileen Krepkovich - Tom Tom Founders Festival

$A Framework for Studying Local Policy Variation Using Web-Scraping and Natural Language Processing Education researchers have traditionally faced severe data limitations in studying local policy variation; administrative datasets capture only a fraction of districts’ policy decisions, and it can be expensive to collect more nuanced implementation data from teachers and leaders. Natural language processing and web-scraping techniques can help address these challenges by assisting researchers in locating and processing policy documents located online. School district policies and practices are commonly documented in student and staff manuals, school improvement plans, and meeting minutes that are posted for the public. This paper introduces an end-to-end framework for collecting these sorts of policy documents and extracting structured policy data: the researcher gathers all potentially relevant documents from district websites, narrows the text corpus to spans of interest using a text classifier, and then extracts specific policy data using additional natural language processing techniques. Through this framework, a researcher can describe variation in policy implementation at the local level, aggregated across the state- or nation-wide populations even as policies evolve over time.$

John Grisham & Deirdre Enright at Tom Tom Festival 2026 - Courage After Conviction - Keith Harward

Future Forum - Ludwig Kuttner: Creativity and the Soul of the City - Tom Tom Fest

The Arts in an Evolutionary Moment with Melani N. Douglass

Listening to Learn: The Role of the Institution in Authentic Black Storytelling

Taking the Magic Out of Machine Learning: Analyzing and Improving Your Models

Machine Learning Conference - Dr. Andrew Fast - Tom Tom Founders Festival