Journalist Chrys Wu collected all the presentations, links and tools from NICAR12 and published them on her blog Ricochet.
NEW YORK - Journalist Chrys Wu collected all the presentations, links and tools from NICAR12 and published them on her blog Ricochet.
The result is an extensive and highly useful list of topics on computer-assisted reporting that were dealt with during the NICAR conference, organised in St. Louis by the National Institute for Computer-Assisted Reporting. Wu divides the information into four categories: presentations & tutorials, software & tools, references and work samples. The first category is attached below, the rest can be found on http://www.chryswu.com/blog/2012/02/22/tools-slides-and-links-from-nicar12/.
Presentations & Tutorials
• Bringing Maps to Fruition (from Michelle Minkoff)
• Free tools for scraping data without programming (from Chris Keller and Michelle Minkoff)
• Instructions for Hands-on Web Scraping Without Programming (from Chris Keller and Michelle Minkoff)
• Locating the Story: The Latest in Online Maps and mapping links (from Ben Welsh)
• Mapping links & presentation (from David Herzog)
• Social Media Sleuthing (from Doug Haddix)
• freeDive Tips & Tricks (from the Knight Digital Media Center)
• CAR on a Shoestring (from Kevin Crowe, Patrick Sweet and Mary Jo Webster)
• Regular Expressions: An Introduction (from Kevin Crowe, Patrick Sweet and Mary Jo Webster)
• Create a moderation form using Google Forms and Fusion Tables
• Scraping with Django (from Kevin Schaul)
• How to turn PDFs into a searchable, sortable table (from Kevin Schaul)
• Get the Most Out of Fusion Tables (from Rebecca Shapley)
• Data viz in 20 minutes: jQuery DataTables (from Christopher Schnaars)
• How to set up Python in Windows 7 (from Anthony DeBarros)
• Data visualization best practices (from Kat Downs)
• NodeXL for Network analysis (from Peter Aldhous)
• Network Analysis for News (from Peter Aldhous and Peggy Heinkel-Wolfe)
• Network analysis for news (video of Peter Aldhous’s NICAR12 talk)
• How to Use Google Refine for Investigative Journalism (from Dan Nguyen)
• Mapping is for Everyone – How to make all kinds of maps (from Sharon Machlis)
• Advanced Excel techniques tipsheet (from MaryJo Webster)
• How do you edit a story made of software? (from Alexander Howard)
• Election Night Results & Maps (from John Keefe)
• Covering Elections presentation (from Al Shaw)
• Making friends with map projections (from Ben Welsh and Michael Corey)
• Database validation (from JT Johnson)
• Web scraping with Node.js (from Al Shaw)
• Who is John Doe — and where to get the paper on him
• Practical TastyPie for the Modern Djangonaut (from Jeremy Bowers)
• Weathering the Storm: Using data to bolster the traditional weather story (from Stephen Stirling)
• Build your first Django news app (from the IRE NICAR12 Django workshop)
• GeoCommons walkthrough (from Paul Monies)
• QGIS 1 workshop tutorial (from Michael Corey)
• Tell Me a Story! – storytelling and data journalism (from Anthony DeBarros)
• Human-assisted reporting: How to create robot reporters in your own image (from Ben Welsh)
• How I learned to stop worrying and love flat files (from Ben Welsh)
• Infect the CMS (from Jacob Harris)
• Inspect the Web With Your Browser’s Web Inspector (from Dan Nguyen)
• An Intro to R (from Jacob Fenton)
• Slides from “Mapping is Hard” (from Brian Boyer)
• TileMill hands-on tutorial (from Chris Amico, Brian Boyer and Matt Stiles)
• Own Your Map Stack (from Chris Amico, Brian Boyer and Matt Stiles)
• Natural Language Toolkit (NLTK) basics (from Cid Standifer)
• Connecting to state data using OpenMissouri.org (from David Herzog)
• How to convert PDFs to Excel in Windows (from IRE)
• Quantum GIS (QGIS) 2 workshop (from Michael Corey)
• How to turn PDFs into text (from Dan Nguyen)
• Web scraping in Python workshop tutorial (from Mark Ng)
• Infiltrate the Ad Department (from Ryan Pitts)
• Map Graphics for Video (from Michael Corey)
• What We Can Find Out from Elections (from Aaron Bycoffe)
• The Latest in Mapping with Javascript and jQuery (from Timothy Barmann)
• How to Make a PANDA (from Brian Boyer)
• The Farenthold Surprise (election panel presentation from Derek Willis)
• Displaying data geographically: Creating a one-layer map in ArcMap (from Tom Meagher)
• An intro to csvKit (from Christopher Groskopf and Anthony DeBarros)
• Integrating CAR into a daily Beat (from Kate Martin)
• How to use the SIMILE Exhibit timeline framework (from David Karger)
• Tableau training handouts (from Tableau)
• CAR Training 2012 including mapping data sets, practice data sets and tip sheets (from Jennifer LaFleur)
