Year | Type | Details |
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2015 | Presentations and Tutorials | Excel Magic tutorial | data (from MaryJo Webster) |
2015 | Presentations and Tutorials | Creating your first Django admin (from Ben Welsh & Ken Schwencke) |
2015 | Presentations and Tutorials | Write your first news app (from Ben Welsh) |
2015 | Presentations and Tutorials | Solo data journalist tips and tools (from Brent Jones) |
2015 | Presentations and Tutorials | Critical questions to ask of studies, press releases and scientific reports (from Peter Aldhous) |
2015 | Presentations and Tutorials | Analyzing networks with Gephi (from Peter Aldhous) |
2015 | Presentations and Tutorials | Make your own data bot with Spark Core, IFTTT and Google Spreadsheets (from Matt Waite) |
2015 | Presentations and Tutorials | Transforming Data: Using abstraction to gain knowledge from numbers (from Rob Simmon, ~25MB PDF) |
2015 | Presentations and Tutorials | How The New York Times analyzed oil spills in North Dakota, and how you can apply the same techniques (from Robert Gebeloff, PowerPoint file) |
2015 | Presentations and Tutorials | Secrets of Covering Money slides (from Brandon Quester’s Donald W. Reynolds National Center for Business Journalism pre-conference session) |
2015 | Presentations and Tutorials | Making every story a data story (from Eva Constantaras) |
2015 | Presentations and Tutorials | Cleaner Data: Do it once and only once (And only once) (from David Eads) |
2015 | Presentations and Tutorials | Do it once (hopefully): Aspirational data processing (from Derek Willis) |
2015 | Presentations and Tutorials | Write an app in Sinatra — Simple web apps with Ruby (from Jacob Harris) |
2015 | Presentations and Tutorials | Data from scratch (from Griff Palmer, Ricardo Brom & Lisa Pickoff-White) |
2015 | Presentations and Tutorials | Tracking diseases (from Daniel Lathrop) |
2015 | Presentations and Tutorials | Detecting racial disparities in your town (from David Herzog) |
2015 | Presentations and Tutorials | Uncovering Racial and Economic Divides Using Data (from Nicole Hannah-Jones) |
2015 | Presentations and Tutorials | Mapping Section 8 (from Tim Henderson) |
2015 | Presentations and Tutorials | What the hell is R? (from @TishaOnTV) |
2015 | Presentations and Tutorials | First steps with R (from Annie Waldman) |
2015 | Presentations and Tutorials | Key data for investigating universities (from Anu Narayanaswamy, Sandhya Kambhampati & Todd Wallack) |
2015 | Presentations and Tutorials | From words to pictures – text analysis & data visualization (from Nick Diakopoulos, PowerPoint file) |
2015 | Presentations and Tutorials | Make every international story a data story (from Giannina Segnini) |
2015 | Presentations and Tutorials | Analyzing job promises (from Tyler Dukes) |
2015 | Presentations and Tutorials | 2015 reporter’s guide to analyzing BLS Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages (QCEW) data PDF | PowerPoint (from David Hiles) |
2015 | Presentations and Tutorials | Analyzing jobs in your community tipsheet (from MaryJo Webster) |
2015 | Presentations and Tutorials | Storytelling from space speaker slides compilation PDF includes the two links below. (from Brian T. Jacobs) |
2015 | Presentations and Tutorials | |
2015 | Presentations and Tutorials | Storytelling from space: Tools and resources (from Brian T. Jacobs) |
2015 | Presentations and Tutorials | Storytelling from space: Case study: Losing Ground (from Al Shaw) |
2015 | Presentations and Tutorials | Storytelling from space: Repo of additional slides to study (from Brian T. Jacobs) |
2015 | Presentations and Tutorials | Getting started with Twitter Bootstrap Gist tutorial | Slides (from Erika Lee) |
2015 | Presentations and Tutorials | How to download data without scraping (from Michelle Minkoff & Scott Klein |
2015 | Presentations and Tutorials | The new ecosystem of health data (from Charles Ornstein) |
2015 | Presentations and Tutorials | Intro to D3 (Darla Cameron & Alex Bordens) |
2015 | Presentations and Tutorials | How to humanize data visualizations (from Katie Park) |
2015 | Presentations and Tutorials | nullCTRL: Let’s find the open and unsecured (from Espen Sandli) |
2015 | Presentations and Tutorials | Investigating businesses with data (from Andrea Fuller) |
2015 | Presentations and Tutorials | Teach yourself to code (from Becca Aaronson) |
2015 | Presentations and Tutorials | The beginner’s guide to taking control of the command line (from Chris L. Keller) |
2015 | Presentations and Tutorials | Intro to Python (from Jackie Kazil) |
2015 | Presentations and Tutorials | Covering the Affordable Care Act tipsheet | PowerPoint slides (from Meghan Hoyer) |
2015 | Presentations and Tutorials | Watchdogging public spending (from Joanna Lin) |
2015 | Presentations and Tutorials | Watchdogging public spending (from Mike Macaig) |
2015 | Presentations and Tutorials | Machine learning in the wild (from Steven Rich) |
2015 | Presentations and Tutorials | Notes from Nikole Hannah-Jones’s salary advice discussion, “Let’s get real about pay” (from Katie Park) |
2015 | Presentations and Tutorials | Useful command line tools for PC users (from Matt Kiefer) |
2015 | Presentations and Tutorials | Playing with Arduino (from John Keefe) |
2015 | Presentations and Tutorials | Advanced SQL using PostGresQL (from Anthony DeBarros) |
2015 | Presentations and Tutorials | How to use Git & GitHub at the command line (from Jessica Lord & Anna Wiener) |
2015 | Presentations and Tutorials | Free tools for scraping data and creating timelines/maps (from Juan A. Martinez) |
2015 | Presentations and Tutorials | Django for data analysis (from Armand Emamdjomeh & Steven Rich) |
2015 | Presentations and Tutorials | Visual journalism for tiny news desks (from Jaeah Lee) |
2015 | Presentations and Tutorials | Building better maps with Mapbox, Leaflet and Javascript (from Ashlyn Still) |
2015 | Presentations and Tutorials | Building mobile-ready visualizations and maps in minutes with Silk (from Alex Salkever) |
2015 | Presentations and Tutorials | Ruby 1: Introduction (from Al Shaw) |
2015 | Presentations and Tutorials | Ruby 3: Building web apps with Sinatra (from Jacob Harris) |
2015 | Presentations and Tutorials | PDFs Unlocked (from Kevin Crowe & Miguel Barbosa) |
2015 | Presentations and Tutorials | How to get data into Excel tipsheet and exercises (from Patti DiVincenzo) |
2015 | Presentations and Tutorials | Mapping JS: Building narrative with geo data + CartoDB (from Aurelia Moser) |
2015 | Presentations and Tutorials | The finer details of digital security, including 2-factor authentication and software verification tipsheet (from Harlo Holmes & Aurelia Moser) |
2015 | Presentations and Tutorials | Command line tools and recipes (from Agustin Armendariz) |
2015 | Presentations and Tutorials | Tools to automatically generate story leads Slides | Tipsheet (from Todd Wallack, Thomas Thoren & Abe Handler) |
2015 | Presentations and Tutorials | Sixteen solutions for data-driven projects Slides | Example code | Notes (from Christopher Groskopf) |
2015 | Presentations and Tutorials | Make photoshop work for you (from Chris Canipe) |
2015 | Presentations and Tutorials | Let’s build a map with TileMill, Mapbox Studio & the Mapbox/Leaflet API Slides | GitHub repo (From Sarah Frostenson) |
2015 | Presentations and Tutorials | CAR on the beat tipsheet (from Jennifer Smith Richards, Christopher Weaver, Kate Martin) |
2015 | Presentations and Tutorials | Hands on with machine learning (from Chase Davis) |
2015 | Presentations and Tutorials | Create interactive news games without much coding (from Rebekah Monson) |
2015 | Presentations and Tutorials | Making data-informed design decisions (from Tyler Fisher & Josh Kadis) |
2015 | Presentations and Tutorials | Catching fire: Spreading data journalism through the newsroom (from Emma Carew Grovum) |
2015 | Presentations and Tutorials | Organize your newsroom around data (from Jeff Ernsthausen) |
2015 | Presentations and Tutorials | Making timelines (from Lena Groeger) |
2015 | Presentations and Tutorials | Introduction to data science (from Tom Meagher & Travis Swicegood) |
2015 | Presentations and Tutorials | Web scraping using Python Slides | Solutions (from Paul Schreiber) |
2015 | Presentations and Tutorials | Lightning-fast data analysis in Tableau Handout 1 | Handout II | Data folder (from Sarah Ryley) |
2015 | Presentations and Tutorials | What we talk about when we talk about “data smells” Notes (from Jacob Harris, Aurelia Moser & Chris Keller) |
2015 | Presentations and Tutorials | Design for data journalism: What to do and what not to do (from Moiz Syed) |
2015 | Presentations and Tutorials | Let’s make an animated GIF (from Lena Groeger) |
2015 | Presentations and Tutorials | Let’s make an animated GIF, taxidermy edition (from Lena Groeger) |
2015 | Presentations and Tutorials | Tools for cracking PDFs Slides and data files (from Danielle Cervantes) |
2015 | Presentations and Tutorials | Dedupe, or what to do in a world without unique IDs (from Jeff Ernsthausen & Forest Gregg) |
2015 | Presentations and Tutorials | Deep dives into Occupy (from Cédric Sam) |
2015 | Presentations and Tutorials | Getting it the rightest you can (from Thomas Hargrove, Jennifer LaFleur, John Perry & Janet Roberts) |
2015 | Presentations and Tutorials | PyCar: Python mini bootcamp tutorial (from Heather Billings, Chris Keller, Tom Meagher, Ryan Murphy, Katie Park, Eric Sagara & Kevin Schaul) |
2015 | Presentations and Tutorials | Python Intermediate bootcamp (from Jeremy Bowers, Michael Corey & Serdar Tumgoren) |
2015 | Presentations and Tutorials | Intermediate/Advanced Python: Tutorial | GitHub repo (from Jeremy Bowers & Serdar Tumgoren) |
2015 | Presentations and Tutorials | Advanced Python workshop Slides | workshop repo (from Geoff Hing) |
2015 | Presentations and Tutorials | Invitation via GitHub Issues to improve how PyCar is taught (from Tom Meagher) |
2015 | Presentations and Tutorials | Data cleaning with regular expressions (from Christian McDonald) |
2015 | Presentations and Tutorials | Visualization for reporting slides | tipsheet (from Coulter Jones & Michelle Minkoff) |
2015 | Presentations and Tutorials | Introduction to mapping: Making maps with QGIS (from Peter Aldhous) |
2015 | Presentations and Tutorials | Mapping 2: Manipulating and editing geographic data with QGIS (from Michael Corey) |
2015 | Presentations and Tutorials | Intro to JavaScript slides | GitHub repo (from Andy Boyle) |
2015 | Presentations and Tutorials | Useful new data visualization and analysis packages in R tutorial | data repo (from Sharon Machlis) |
2015 | Presentations and Tutorials | Sensor journalism: Buzz or BS — Travis Hartman’s civic sound detection in Columbia, MO slides | Matt Waite’s building a luggage detector slides |
2015 | Presentations and Tutorials | Wrangling federal campaign finance data in a ‘real’ newsroom (from Jacob Fenton) |
2015 | Presentations and Tutorials | So they bought a federal candidate, now what? tipsheet (from Sarah Bryner) |
2015 | Presentations and Tutorials | It’s not about the FEC: other campfin data (from Jacob Fenton) |
2015 | Presentations and Tutorials | Finding and Analyzing Data on FEC.gov (from Christopher Schnaars) |
2015 | Presentations and Tutorials | Visualizing your data with R and ggplot2 (from Ron Campbell) |
2015 | Presentations and Tutorials | 50 ideas in 60 minutes (from Tyler Dukes and Mc Nelly Torres) |
2015 | Presentations and Tutorials | TechRaking 10: Bootstrapping the news (from Michael Corey, Jennifer LaFleur, Emmanuel Martinez, Eric Segara, Nathan Shobe, Julia Smith and Aaron Williams) |
2015 | Presentations and Tutorials | Using data to detect environmental dangers (from Michael Corey) |
2015 | Presentations and Tutorials | Municipal bonds 101: How to find, understand and analyze bond offering statements (from Cezary Podkul) |
2015 | Presentations and Tutorials | Using the web inspector for complex scraping slides | GitHub repo (from Eric Segara) |
2015 | Presentations and Tutorials | Advanced SQL in MySQL tutorial (from Liz Lucas) |
2015 | Presentations and Tutorials | Data Alchemy workshop: get usable, analyzable data out of what would otherwise be considered junk (or a headache) (from Jeremy Merrill) |
2015 | Presentations and Tutorials | Policing the Police handouts (from Rob Barry, Ben Poston, Topher Sanders and Corey Johnson) |
2015 | Software & Tools | Tarbell – Google spreadsheets-based website publishing tool |
2015 | Software & Tools | Landsat-ul: A utility to search, download and process Landsat 8 satellite imagery |
2015 | Software & Tools | JPL’s SMAP Viewer (SMAP is “Soil Moisture Active Passive” satellite imaging) |
2015 | Software & Tools | Plotly – graph and share your data |
2015 | Software & Tools | Plug Tableau into Excel with Tableau’s Reshaper |
2015 | Software & Tools | Bokeh Python interactive visualization library |
2015 | Software & Tools | markdowneyjr turns Markdown into JSON for slightly easier copyediting of data files |
2015 | Software & Tools | Changedetection.com tracks website page changes and notifies you. |
2015 | Software & Tools | The New York Times graphics desk’s ai2html changes Adobe Illustrator files into HTML & CSS | example output |
2015 | Software & Tools | The New York Times graphics desk’s ArchieML – a structured text format optimized for human writability |
2015 | Software & Tools | Minezy email exploration tool (prototype by T. Christian Miller) |
2015 | Software & Tools | TimelineCurator works with TimelineJS to extract temporal references in freeform text to generate a visual timeline |
2015 | Software & Tools | The Upshot’s Bedfellows command-line tool for exploring the PAC donor-recipient relationship |
2015 | References | MaryJo Webster’s data journalism training materials |
2015 | References | Jeremy Singer-Vine’s CSV & JSON outputs of the NICAR15 schedule |
2015 | References | Sharon Machlis’s Learn R for Beginners intensive intro |
2015 | References | CSVkit documentation for data extraction from .csv files |
2015 | References | “Machine Learning: a Probabilistic Perspective” (math-intensive university textbook; table of contents is good map of the space of machine learning) |
2015 | References | Trend in computer-assisted reporting article from Editor & Publisher |
2015 | References | NASA’s How To Make a True-Color Landsat 8 Image |
2015 | References | How to process Landsat 8 images in Photoshop |
2015 | References | ArcGIS open data sets |
2015 | References | “How spreadsheets changed the world“ |
2015 | References | Data you need for broadcast quick hits: Bureau of Transportation statistics | Aviation accident database & synopses | Uniform crime reporting statistics |
2015 | References | Graphical Perception and Graphical Methods for Analyzing Scientific Data (PDF) |
2015 | References | If the moon were only 1 pixel |
2015 | References | What is the difference between `grep`, `egrep`, and `fgrep`? |
2015 | References | Multivariate testing: what works and doesn’t in interactives |
2015 | References | Mike Bostock’s OpenVis Conference keynote, “Design is a search problem“ |
2015 | References | DocGraph’s Open Provider Directory and Open Formulary comment data |
2015 | References | How to fix Gephi on Mac OS X |
2015 | References | Matt Ericson’s When maps shouldn’t be maps |
2015 | References | Geomancer.io – Add geographically-related data to any spreadsheet. |
2015 | References | Introduction to machine learning with Python in Scikit-Learn |
2015 | References | NPR Visuals best practices |
2015 | References | How to use PGP on Windows PC |
2015 | References | PythonJournos listserv |
2015 | Lightning Talks | Images from Space — introducing schooner-tk (from Jeff Larson) |
2015 | Lightning Talks | 10 things I hate about you, well sorta — getting designers & developers to work together (from Lily Mihalik & Anthony Pesce) |
2015 | Lightning Talks | 5 data visualizations in 5 minutes: each in 5 lines or less of R (from Sharon Machlis) |
2015 | Lightning Talks | The five stages of terrible data (from Steven Rich) |
2015 | Lightning Talks | How do blind people see? Slides | Speaker notes (from Suyeon Son) |
2015 | Lightning Talks | Stop letting the ~cool~ factor detract from your journalism (from Ashlyn Still) |
2015 | Lightning Talks | Wrestling data (without coding) (from MaryJo Webster) |
2015 | Lightning Talks | The end of maps, in seven charts (from Darla Cameron) |
2015 | Lightning Talks | Seven features you’ll want in your next charting tool (from Gregor Aisch) |
2015 | Lightning Talks | Stop trying to multitask. You’re terrible at it. (from Chris Canipe) |
2014 | Presentations and Tutorials | Make your first news app (from Ben Welsh) |
2014 | Presentations and Tutorials | Build maps with leaflet and mapbox.js (from Becca Aaronson) |
2014 | Presentations and Tutorials | Creating maps: principles, mistakes, and potential (from Noah Veltman & Tom MacWright) |
2014 | Presentations and Tutorials | Excel Magic class handout and Excel data (from MaryJo Webster) |
2014 | Presentations and Tutorials | 50 ideas 50 minutes handout (from MaryJo Webster) |
2014 | Presentations and Tutorials | Maps and Charts in R: Real Newsroom Examples (from Matt Waite) |
2014 | Presentations and Tutorials | Intro to MySQL tutorial materials (from Liz Lucas) |
2014 | Presentations and Tutorials | PostGIS + CartoDB (from Michael Keller & Andrew Hill) |
2014 | Presentations and Tutorials | Demystifying D3, an intro to the grammar of graphics (from Alastair Dant) |
2014 | Presentations and Tutorials | Introduction to D3.js (from Irene Ros) |
2014 | Presentations and Tutorials | Demystifying d3.js Workshop (from Irene Ros) |
2014 | Presentations and Tutorials | Everyday Scripting (from Agustin Armendariz) |
2014 | Presentations and Tutorials | Amazon Cloud Basics (from Scott Klein) |
2014 | Presentations and Tutorials | Grabbing Data from Websites: tips & tricks (from Scott Klein) |
2014 | Presentations and Tutorials | Intro to Tableau (from Jewel Loree) |
2014 | Presentations and Tutorials | SQLite from the Command Line slides & GitHub repo (from Matt Kiefer) |
2014 | Presentations and Tutorials | Working with NPR’s Apps Template (from Tyler Fisher) |
2014 | Presentations and Tutorials | Insight and Enlightenment and an expansion on data, patternicity and biases (from Alberto Cairo) |
2014 | Presentations and Tutorials | Notes from The Data-Driven Story (from Stephen Suen) |
2014 | Presentations and Tutorials | Data-Driven Story: Putting the Package Together slides (from Maud Beelman) |
2014 | Presentations and Tutorials | Love Your Life, Retire Your Servers (from Andy Boyle & Tasneem Raja |
2014 | Presentations and Tutorials | Getting Started with Excel (from Helena Bengtsson) |
2014 | Presentations and Tutorials | NodeXL for Network Analysis (from Peter Aldhous) |
2014 | Presentations and Tutorials | Investigating Racial Inequality in Your Region Presentation | Tipsheet (from Lawrence Lanahan) |
2014 | Presentations and Tutorials | Mapping 1: displaying geographical data with QGISHands (from Peter Aldhous) |
2014 | Presentations and Tutorials | Mapping 2: Manipulating geographical data with QGIS (from Peter Aldhous) |
2014 | Presentations and Tutorials | Counting and Summing with SQL (from Andrea Fuller) |
2014 | Presentations and Tutorials | Digging online for global data (from Jonathan Stoneman) |
2014 | Presentations and Tutorials | Mining the Census for Every Beat (from Ronald Campbell) |
2014 | Presentations and Tutorials | Census I: Must-have data for every beat slides & handout (from Paul Overberg) |
2014 | Presentations and Tutorials | Census I: Crunching Census Commuting Data handout (from Mike Maciag) |
2014 | Presentations and Tutorials | Census II: slides (from Paul Overberg) |
2014 | Presentations and Tutorials | Data Deep Dive I handout (from Paul Overberg) |
2014 | Presentations and Tutorials | Free CAR Tools (from Matt Wynn & Martin Burch) |
2014 | Presentations and Tutorials | Harnessing the Power of the Crowd presentation (from Robert Benincasa) | notes (from Stephen Suen) |
2014 | Presentations and Tutorials | What to Consider Before Scraping (from Isaac Wolf) |
2014 | Presentations and Tutorials | Tools for cracking PDFs panelist notes (from Jeremy Merrill) | Notes (from Justin Myers) |
2014 | Presentations and Tutorials | The customized Census: How to use microdata when you just can’t find the right table slides (from Robert Gebeloff) | notes (from Justin Myers) |
2014 | Presentations and Tutorials | Justin Myers’s Dig into business with data investigations notes |
2014 | Presentations and Tutorials | Justin Myers’s Enhance your stories with statistics notes |
2014 | Presentations and Tutorials | Mining Health Care Data (from Peter Eisler) |
2014 | Presentations and Tutorials | How to make a story map with photos, text and ArcGIS (from Sharon Machlis) |
2014 | Presentations and Tutorials | Intro to R & Beginners’ Guide to R (from Sharon Machlis) |
2014 | Presentations and Tutorials | A few of my favorite (health data) things (from Charles Ornstein) |
2014 | Presentations and Tutorials | How ProPublica’s Prescriber Checkup Came Together (from Charles Ornstein) |
2014 | Presentations and Tutorials | Intro to GitHub (from Jordan McCullough) |
2014 | Presentations and Tutorials | Collaborative Reporting with GitHub (from Ben Balter) |
2014 | Presentations and Tutorials | Mining Nonprofit Data (from Kendall Taggart) |
2014 | Presentations and Tutorials | Complaints: A road map for killer investigations & State Consumer Complaint Contacts (from Tisha Thompson & Jill Reipenhoff) |
2014 | Presentations and Tutorials | A Reporter’s Guide to Unleashing E-Docs (from Deborah Nelson) |
2014 | Presentations and Tutorials | Learn how to use Census Microdata (from Katie Genadek) |
2014 | Presentations and Tutorials | Dataviz for Everyone slides (from Chris Amico, Lena Groeger & Ryan Pitts) |
2014 | Presentations and Tutorials | Keeping tabs on crime slides (from Laura Norton Amico) |
2014 | Presentations and Tutorials | How to Feel Like You’re Hacking Without Really Doing It (from Samantha Sunne) |
2014 | Presentations and Tutorials | Campaign Finance I: Mining FEC Data ZIP file of slides & tipsheet (from Chris Schnaars) |
2014 | Presentations and Tutorials | Storytelling as Presentation Tool Slides (from Chrys Wu, Helene Sears, Aron Pilhofer & Alyson Hurt) | Notes (from Stephen Suen) |
2014 | Presentations and Tutorials | Cooking With Hardware (from Team Blinky) |
2014 | Presentations and Tutorials | Intro to Ruby (from Al Shaw) |
2014 | Presentations and Tutorials | When to Scrape (from Nils Mulvad) |
2014 | Presentations and Tutorials | Build a police scanner for $20 (from Ken Schwencke & Jon Keegan) |
2014 | Presentations and Tutorials | How Panda Works (from Christopher Groskopf) |
2014 | Presentations and Tutorials | Weathering the Storm presentation & tipsheet (from Stephen Stirling & Ian Livingston) |
2014 | Presentations and Tutorials | Make Dirty Day Shine with OpenRefine (from Frederick Kaimann) |
2014 | Presentations and Tutorials | Threat Modeling: Planning Digital Security for your Story video and slides (from Jonathan Stray) |
2014 | Presentations and Tutorials | The Wall Street Journal Encrypted Chat installation instructions |
2014 | Presentations and Tutorials | PyCAR Python mini-bootcamp (from Tom Meagher) |
2014 | Presentations and Tutorials | Getting Started With Python (from Anthony DeBarros) |
2014 | Presentations and Tutorials | Intermediate Python: Refactoring 101 Documentation | GitHub repo and a well-commented example (from Jeremy Bowers, Serdar Tumgoren & Katie Park) |
2014 | Presentations and Tutorials | What is a Data Desk (from Ben Welsh) |
2014 | Presentations and Tutorials | Crossing the language boundaries across your newsroom: journo to dev and back notes (from Stephen Suen) |
2014 | Presentations and Tutorials | Intro to Google Earth Engine (from Vanessa Schneider) |
2014 | Presentations and Tutorials | Deep Data Dives notes (Team Al Jazeera US & friends) |
2014 | Presentations and Tutorials | Learn Regex (from Amanda Hickman) |
2014 | Presentations and Tutorials | Rifling Through the Mapping Toolbox (from Michael Corey & Ryan McNeill) |
2014 | Presentations and Tutorials | Census III: mapping & presentation (from John Keefe & Chris Amico) |
2014 | Presentations and Tutorials | How to remove water from census shape files (from John Keefe) |
2014 | Presentations and Tutorials | PDF Scraping With Tabula, including an explanation of its algorithms (from Jeremy Merrill) |
2014 | Presentations and Tutorials | Tracking Hazardous Waste (from Ben Poston) |
2014 | Presentations and Tutorials | Social Media for Investigation tools handout (from Mandy Jenkins & Robert Hernandez) |
2014 | Presentations and Tutorials | Build your Twitter bot army – Notes (from Stephen Suen) |
2014 | Presentations and Tutorials | Connecting Charts to Live Data slides & spreadsheet (from Timothy Barrmann) |
2014 | Presentations and Tutorials | Tips for Covering Money in Politics stories (from Jack Gillum) |
2014 | Presentations and Tutorials | Reynolds Center Detecting Corporate Fraud workshop slides & handouts | Joanna S. Kao’s notes |
2014 | Presentations and Tutorials | Why Does Fraud Happen? (audio from Theo Francis) |
2014 | Presentations and Tutorials | Going through SEC’s 10-Ks, 10-Qs and more (audio from Theo Francis) |
2014 | Presentations and Tutorials | Don’t be intimidated (audio from Theo Francis & Roddy Boyd) |
2014 | Presentations and Tutorials | TechRaking 5-ish (CIR) – Bootstrapping the News |
2014 | Software & Tools | Campaign Finance Tools (from Aaron Bycoffe) |
2014 | Software & Tools | Computational Journalism on a Stick (from M. Edward Borasky) |
2014 | Software & Tools | FOIA Machine |
2014 | Software & Tools | What Do They Know (UK FOI) |
2014 | Software & Tools | Wakari.io, Web-based Python data analysis |
2014 | Software & Tools | Oatmeal geocoded |
2014 | Software & Tools | Kartograph framework for building interactive map apps |
2014 | Software & Tools | OpenRefine for data cleaning |
2014 | Software & Tools | The Miso Project for interactive storytelling and data visualization |
2014 | Software & Tools | D3.chart from The Miso Project for building reusable charts with d3.js |
2014 | Software & Tools | TextQL – execute SQL against structured text like CSV or TSV |
2014 | Software & Tools | Rank and Filed – search SEC filings for free |
2014 | Software & Tools | CometDocs (free for IRE members) |
2014 | Software & Tools | Import.io transforms websites into structured data or an API |
2014 | Software & Tools | Investigative Dashboard – helps expose illicit ties that cross country borders |
2014 | Software & Tools | Captricity can extract handwriting from paper forms and PDFs |
2014 | Software & Tools | Tableau plug-in for Excel |
2014 | Software & Tools | Panopticlick shows how unique your browser is. You may not be as private or hidden as you think. |
2014 | Software & Tools | Spark.io – wifi hardware to DIY |
2014 | Software & Tools | Use GPGTools to encrypt email and manage OpenPGP keys |
2014 | Software & Tools | Google 2-step Verification |
2014 | Software & Tools | Make a calculator with Equation by Sisi Wei & Steven Melendez |
2014 | Software & Tools | Stacked Up – check that Philadelphia neighborhood schools have all of the required instructional materials before school resumes in fall |
2014 | Software & Tools | Shut That Down – see who’s funding hate in your state |
2014 | Software & Tools | Sunlight Foundation APIs |
2014 | Software & Tools | Census Reporter |
2014 | Software & Tools | IPUMS (Integrated Public Use Microdata Series) offers complete-count data from 1800s censuses of Canada, Great Britain, Norway, Sweden and the U.S. |
2014 | Software & Tools | Brown University’s US2010 census project |
2014 | Software & Tools | Website Watcher tracks site changes |
2014 | Software & Tools | Find phone numbers with AnyWho (U.S.) | Worldwide: Infobel & Numberway |
2014 | Software & Tools | Snap Bird searches your tweets & DMs and friends’ tweets |
2014 | Software & Tools | Foller.me Twitter analytics |
2014 | Software & Tools | Twitter’s own analytics tools |
2014 | Software & Tools | Tweetbeep Twitter analytics |
2014 | Software & Tools | DownloadThemAll browser plugin |
2014 | Software & Tools | NPR’s Apps Template |
2014 | Software & Tools | Chicago Tribune’s Tarbell (Google Spreadsheets + AWS) |
2014 | Software & Tools | Vega visualization grammar |
2014 | Software & Tools | Lyra visualization design environment |
2014 | Software & Tools | Overview Project |
2014 | Software & Tools | Open Source Alternatives a.k.a. OSALT |
2014 | Software & Tools | Tabula |
2014 | Software & Tools | Tineye reverse image search |
2014 | Software & Tools | Falcon Google Chrome extension for people search |
2014 | Software & Tools | Cryptocat private chat for Web browsers and iPhone |
2014 | Software & Tools | Tor Project prevents traffic analysis |
2014 | Software & Tools | Freze saves screenshot + website source code |
2014 | Software & Tools | Twine is an open-source tool for telling interactive, nonlinear stories |
2014 | References | The IRE-NICAR Database Library |
2014 | References | Alberto Cairo’s blog, The Functional Art |
2014 | References | Mike Bostock’s Let’s Make a Map tutorial |
2014 | References | “How Designers Destroyed the World” by Mike Monteiro |
2014 | References | “The Grammar of Graphics (Statistics and Computing)” by Leland Wilkinson et al. |
2014 | References | How to Read Histograms and Use Them in R |
2014 | References | What statistical analysis should I use? (from UCLA — Go Bruins!) |
2014 | References | Econometrics lectures by Mark Thomas, University of Oregon |
2014 | References | Fracking tipsheet (from Mike Soraghan) |
2014 | References | FollowTheMoney.org |
2014 | References | Make Tidy Data from start to finish by Hadley Wickham |
2014 | References | Easing Functions Cheat Sheet by Andrey Sitnik |
2014 | References | Mapmakers Cheat Sheet by Tom MacWright |
2014 | References | Information on the sustainability of digital formats from the Library of Congress |
2014 | References | Scott Murray’s D3.js tutorials |
2014 | References | Data Resources for Dams, Impoundments and Levees from Society of Environmental Journalists |
2014 | References | ArcGIS Gallery of maps, maps, maps |
2014 | References | Causes of Death in the World (1990, 2005, 2010) from Health Intelligence |
2014 | References | The Pew Research Center Data Feed |
2014 | References | New Directions in Cryptography (PDF) by Whitfield Diffie & Martin E. Hellman |
2014 | References | Best practices for FOIA & government information requests (from Office of Government Information Services) |
2014 | References | FERPA Fact fact-checks the use of the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act when denying access to public records. A Student Press Law Center project. |
2014 | References | Edward Tufte’s Sparkline theory and practice |
2014 | References | A Map That Wasn’t a Map – Mother Jones case study |
2014 | References | VINELink – find out if someone is incarcerated |
2014 | References | National Missing and Unidentified Persons System (NamUs) |
2014 | References | Federal Bureau of Prisons Inmate Locator |
2014 | References | Federal Reserve Economic Data (FRED), St. Louis Federal Reserve |
2014 | References | Algorithmic Accountability Reporting paper by Nick Diakopoulus |
2014 | References | PythonJournos Google Group |
2014 | References | National Historical Geographic Information System |
2014 | References | Data.gov – the U.S. government’s open data repository |
2014 | References | How to Mail Merge in Microsoft Word |
2014 | References | Easy maps with Ari Lamstein’s choroplethr |
2014 | References | Six Provocations for Big Data by danah boyd & Kate Crawford |
2014 | References | Noah Veltman’s explanation of static vs. dynamic websites |
2014 | References | “Building Data Science Teams” by DJ Patil |
2014 | References | The ultimate in user testing (seriously): Test your mobile app on drunk users |
2014 | References | How to set up your laptop to develop news apps the NPR way |
2014 | References | “Multiliteracies for a Digital Age” by Stuart A. Selber (library lookup | Amazon | Southern Illinois University Press) |
2014 | References | Noah Veltman’s Learning Lunches – an effort to demystify technical topics that come up often in newsroom development |
2014 | References | “Reverse Engineering Chinese Censorship through Randomized Experimentation and Participant Observation” by Gary King, Jennifer Pan and Margaret E. Roberts |
2014 | References | Political Framing Blog uses machine learning to find trends in congressional rhetoric |
2014 | Lightning Talks | Refactoring; or Why Your Code Sucks and How to Fix It – Christopher Groskopf |
2014 | Lightning Talks | A Few of My Favorite Wee Things – Lena Groeger |
2014 | Lightning Talks | Natural Language Processing in the kitchen – Anthony Pesce |
2014 | Lightning Talks | Five (more) algorithms in five (more) minutes GitHub repo | Video – Chase Davis |
2014 | Lightning Talks | What we can learn from terrible data viz (slides – | Video) – Katie Park |
2014 | Lightning Talks | Practical Calculus – Steven Rich |
2014 | Lightning Talks | Detecting What Isn’t There – Sisi Wei |
2014 | Lightning Talks | The whole internet in 5 minutes! (Slides | GitHub repo | Video) – Jeremy Bowers |
2014 | Lightning Talks | How to Raise an Army – Tyler Fisher |
2014 | Lightning Talks | You Must Learn (Slides | Video) – Ben Welsh |
2014 | Work Samples | Planet Money Makes a T-Shirt (NPR) |
2014 | Work Samples | The GitHub repo for Planet Money’s T-Shirt Project (NPR) |
2014 | Work Samples | BBC News Interactives & Graphics |
2014 | Work Samples | Visualizing Buffy (data visualization, made with d3.js) |
2014 | Work Samples | Timeline: Shots fired at LAX Terminal 3 checkpoint (KPCC) |
2014 | Work Samples | Timeline: The search for Christopher Dorner” (KPCC) |
2014 | Work Samples | Fire Tracker (KPCC) |
2014 | Work Samples | Confira a evolução da população do mundo desde 1950 (Epoca) |
2014 | Work Samples | 50 Years of Change tracking LGBT civil rights (University of Wisconsin-Madison cartography, multiple representations of the same dataset for clear explanation, recommended by Alberto Cairo) |
2014 | Work Samples | HealthCare.gov Explorer (WSJ) |
2014 | Work Samples | Russia’s Dubius Vote (WSJ – histograms example) |
2014 | Work Samples | Portraits of the Hundreds of Children Killed by Guns Since Newtown (Mother Jones) |
2014 | Work Samples | Playgrounds for Everyone (NPR) |
2014 | Work Samples | Behind the Bloodshed: The Untold Story of America’s Mass Killings (USA Today) |
2014 | Work Samples | A Special Report on the Rise of Mass Shootings in America (Mother Jones) |
2014 | Work Samples | Secrecy 101 (The Columbus Dispatch) |
2014 | Work Samples | Washington: A World Apart (The Washington Post) |
2014 | Work Samples | NHS Winter Accident & Emergency tracker (BBC News) |
2014 | Work Samples | The Child Exchange: Inside America’s underground market for adopted children (Reuters Investigates) |
2014 | Work Samples | Chicago Under the Gun (The Chicago Tribune) |
2014 | Work Samples | Deadly Delays (The Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel) |
2014 | Work Samples | Twisters: Road to Larissa (Adam Pearce) |
2014 | Work Samples | News Nerd First Projects – “It’s okay. We all sucked once.” |
2013 | Presentations and Tutorials | Dashboards for Reporting (from Aaron Bycoffe, Jacob Harris & Derek Willis) |
2013 | Presentations and Tutorials | Data Science for Nerdy Journalists (from Hadley Wickham) |
2013 | Presentations and Tutorials | Sisi Wei shares her class notes |
2013 | Presentations and Tutorials | Data Scraping with Google Docs (from Sean Sposito) |
2013 | Presentations and Tutorials | How to create an automatically updating Google spreadsheet (from Sharon Machlis) |
2013 | Presentations and Tutorials | Demystifying Web Scraping (from Sean Sposito & Acton Gordon) |
2013 | Presentations and Tutorials | Campaign Finance the Data Science Way (from Chase Davis) |
2013 | Presentations and Tutorials | Exploratory Data Analysis (from Chase Davis) |
2013 | Presentations and Tutorials | Hone your Google Fusion Tables training skills tutorial (from Sreeram Balakrishnan) |
2013 | Presentations and Tutorials | Data Mining Machine Learning (from Jeff Larson) |
2013 | Presentations and Tutorials | Practical Machine Learning (from Chase Davis & Jeff Larson) |
2013 | Presentations and Tutorials | Journalism, Branding & Social Media (from Mandy Jenkins) |
2013 | Presentations and Tutorials | Social media search tips and tools (from Doug Haddix) |
2013 | Presentations and Tutorials | How the Los Angeles Times uses DocumentCloud (from Ben Welsh) |
2013 | Presentations and Tutorials | Using Excel for Data Analysis (from Krista Kjellman Schmidt) |
2013 | Presentations and Tutorials | Excel I: Sorting and filtering (from Linda Johnson) |
2013 | Presentations and Tutorials | Excel II: Rates and Ratios (from Denise Malan) |
2013 | Presentations and Tutorials | Excel Magic: Advanced functions for data cleaning and more | Excel data (from MaryJo Webster) |
2013 | Presentations and Tutorials | Make Your First News App with Django |
2013 | Presentations and Tutorials | Data on the Fly (from John Keefe & Mark Wert) |
2013 | Presentations and Tutorials | Digging Deep with Data Journalism (from Jill Riepenhoff) |
2013 | Presentations and Tutorials | Information Design & Crossing the Digital Divide (from Helene Sears) |
2013 | Presentations and Tutorials | Dataviz on a shoestring (from Sharon Machlis) |
2013 | Presentations and Tutorials | Introduction to Ruby (from Al Shaw) |
2013 | Presentations and Tutorials | The Data Driven Story: Conceiving & Launching (from Jennifer LaFleur & David Donald) |
2013 | Presentations and Tutorials | Dataviz, Responsive Web Design + Mobile: Friends or Frenemies? (from Miranda Mulligan & Pete Karl II) |
2013 | Presentations and Tutorials | Quick steps to mastering SQL through SQLite (from Troy Thibodeaux) |
2013 | Presentations and Tutorials | – Emma Carew Grovum shares her notes from the tutorial |
2013 | Presentations and Tutorials | Reporting without revealing: Tools for hiding your tracks (from Paula Lavigne) |
2013 | Presentations and Tutorials | Covert reporting using technology to cover your tracks (from Mike Tigas) |
2013 | Presentations and Tutorials | Learning Python for journalists (from Jeremy Bowers & Serdar Tumgoren) |
2013 | Presentations and Tutorials | – Ask to join the Google group |
2013 | Presentations and Tutorials | Fun with data in sports journalism (from Jack Gillum) |
2013 | Presentations and Tutorials | After the game: Top data ideas for investigating $port through $pending (from Paula Lavigne) |
2013 | Presentations and Tutorials | Is 911 a Joke in Your Town? (from Ben Welsh) |
2013 | Presentations and Tutorials | Sample code for Introduction to JavaScript the Right Way (from Jeff Larson) |
2013 | Presentations and Tutorials | Food waste investigations (from Erin Jordan) |
2013 | Presentations and Tutorials | Government waste investigations (from Tim Eberly) |
2013 | Presentations and Tutorials | Investigating government waste (from Josh Sweigart) |
2013 | Presentations and Tutorials | OpenRefine (formerly Google Refine) slides and cheat sheet (from Tom Meagher) |
2013 | Presentations and Tutorials | How can we get the widest impact out of software projects? (from Rich Gordon) |
2013 | Presentations and Tutorials | How to be ready for your social media Sandy (on discovery, validation and publication) (from Steve Myers) |
2013 | Presentations and Tutorials | Github repo and example code from Developing reusable visualization components using D3 and Backbone.js (from Alastair Dant) |
2013 | Presentations and Tutorials | Code for drought maps & Data & code .zip file (from Amanda Cox) |
2013 | Presentations and Tutorials | Web scraping with Node.js (from Al Shaw) |
2013 | Presentations and Tutorials | Zip file for Python workshops 1 & 3 | Github repo (from Ron Campbell) |
2013 | Presentations and Tutorials | Tip sheet for Python workshop 2, plus dataset for the workshop (from Christopher Schnaars) |
2013 | Presentations and Tutorials | Mike Ball shares his notes from Tasneem Raja’s Smarter interactive Web projects with Google Spreadsheets and Tabletop.js talk |
2013 | Presentations and Tutorials | Data Roadmaps: Priming your desktop with certain data slices helps you spot trends, find people and understand your city (from T.L. Langford) |
2013 | Presentations and Tutorials | Making Health Data Sexy (from Charles Ornstein) |
2013 | Presentations and Tutorials | Infect the CMS (from Heather Billings, Jacob Harris and Al Shaw) |
2013 | Presentations and Tutorials | Making interactives fun | List of interactives shown during the talk (from Tasneem Raja and Sisi Wei) |
2013 | Presentations and Tutorials | Covering public pensions (from MaryJo Webster) |
2013 | Presentations and Tutorials | Learn to use Git and Github and fork this cheat sheet (from Tom Meagher) |
2013 | Presentations and Tutorials | Making Timelines (from Krista Kjellman Schmidt and Lena Groeger) |
2013 | Presentations and Tutorials | Inside baseball: What data journalism can learn from sports (from Jeremy Bowers, Ryan Pitts and Matt Waite |
2013 | Presentations and Tutorials | Disasters: Preparing for and digging in after the storm (from Ben Poston) |
2013 | Presentations and Tutorials | 5 data journalism projects you might not have seen before and why they matter in Europe (from Sebastian Mondial) |
2013 | Presentations and Tutorials | The One-Query Story (from Kate Martin) |
2013 | Presentations and Tutorials | Mapping Best Practices (from Dave Cole, John Keefe and Matt Stiles) |
2013 | Presentations and Tutorials | Web Scraping (and more) with Google Apps Script (from Steven Melendez) |
2013 | Presentations and Tutorials | NodeXL for Network Analysis (from Peter Aldhous) |
2013 | Presentations and Tutorials | Data-driven Beats (from Chris Amico) |
2013 | Presentations and Tutorials | Bringing Excel to the Web with SkyDrive (from Cathy Harley) |
2013 | Presentations and Tutorials | Navigating U.S. Census Data (from Erran F. Persley) |
2013 | Presentations and Tutorials | How to Serve Mad Traffic, Part I (from Jeremy Bowers) |
2013 | Presentations and Tutorials | How to Serve Mad Traffic, Part II (from Jacqui Maher) |
2013 | Lightning Talks | 5 Algorithms in 5 Minutes | Video (from Chase Davis) |
2013 | Lightning Talks | Let’s make games for news | Video (from Sisi Wei) |
2013 | Lightning Talks | Big datasets, small streams | Video (from Katie Park) |
2013 | Lightning Talks | Z-Scores: How You Can Compare Apples With Oranges (downloads a PowerPoint file) | Video (from Robert Gebeloff) |
2013 | Lightning Talks | Casino-Driven Design | Video (from Al Shaw) |
2013 | Lightning Talks | Be your wn Nate Silver | Video (from Jeff Larson) |
2013 | Lightning Talks | ILENE, the polite coding language | Video (from Jennifer LaFleur and Jeff Larson) |
2013 | Lightning Talks | Every State is Weird: A selection of election edge cases | Video (from Jacob Harris) |
2013 | Lightning Talks | Dude Who Stole My Congressman? (Data in .xls | Visualization) (from Paul Parker) |
2013 | Lightning Talks | Code for the Arduino Baggage Handler | Video (from Matt Waite) |
2013 | Lightning Talks | “Django Retrained: 5 ways coding like a web developer can make you a better investigative reporter” | Slides (from Ben Welsh) |
2013 | Software & Tools | BatchGeo |
2013 | Software & Tools | ChangeDetection.com – monitor website changes |
2013 | Software & Tools | Citizen Quotes – A project to demonstrate maximum entropy models for extracting quotes from news articles in Python. |
2013 | Software & Tools | CometDocs converts PDFs to Word and Excel docs |
2013 | Software & Tools | Tabula for pulling data out of PDFs |
2013 | Software & Tools | Tried and true XPDF (PDFtoText) |
2013 | Software & Tools | DocHive PDF to XML converter |
2013 | Software & Tools | Python wrapper for the Document Cloud API |
2013 | Software & Tools | DownThemAll Firefox plug-in for downloading website assets (photos, video, etc.) |
2013 | Software & Tools | Embed Excel Interactive View into your site |
2013 | Software & Tools | Fast Cluster, a command line tool for grouping documents by similarity (from Jeff Larson) |
2013 | Software & Tools | FOIA Machine (automate your Freedom of Information requests) |
2013 | Software & Tools | Geofeedia search and monitor social media by location |
2013 | Software & Tools | iWitness from Adaptive Path – search social media content by time and place |
2013 | Software & Tools | OpenRefine (the open source repo of the data cleaning tool formerly known as Google Refine) |
2013 | Software & Tools | Overview Project | Read the getting started guide |
2013 | Software & Tools | Scrape screen scraper Chrome extension. Journalist Jens Finnäs wrote a tutorial for it on Dataists. |
2013 | Software & Tools | Time Flow by Martin Wattenberg & Fernanda Viegas |
2013 | Software & Tools | Stately – a symbol font to create a map of the U.S. using HTML & CSS |
2013 | Software & Tools | Weka 3: Data mining software in Java |
2013 | Software & Tools | Cascading Tree Sheets |
2013 | Software & Tools | Dataset (part of the Miso Project) – grabs data from Google Spreadsheets and helps visualize the data |
2013 | Software & Tools | Datawrapper (open source) |
2013 | Software & Tools | Google Chart Tools |
2013 | Software & Tools | Infogram |
2013 | Software & Tools | ManyEyes |
2013 | Software & Tools | Tabletop.js |
2013 | Software & Tools | Tableau Public (Windows only) |
2013 | Software & Tools | Mapbox and Tilemill |
2013 | Software & Tools | Statwing |
2013 | Software & Tools | Adobe Edge Animate free tool for creating interactive content |
2013 | Software & Tools | Spoofcard caller ID spoofing |
2013 | Software & Tools | Trap Call unblocks private numbers |
2013 | Software & Tools | Burner iPhone app creates disposable phone numbers |
2013 | Software & Tools | Tools for hiding an IP address: |
2013 | Software & Tools | – Anonymizer ($80) |
2013 | Software & Tools | – Privoxy |
2013 | Software & Tools | – BeHidden |
2013 | Software & Tools | – Anonymous |
2013 | Software & Tools | – IxQuick |
2013 | Software & Tools | Orbot provides Tor proxying on Android phones |
2013 | Software & Tools | Silent Circle encrypted communication app for iPhone and Android |
2013 | Software & Tools | Whois (search for domain name owners) |
2013 | Software & Tools | SpiderOak private, secure data stored in the cloud |
2013 | Software & Tools | Foller.me who to follow on social platforms |
2013 | Software & Tools | Twazzup.com |
2013 | Software & Tools | Ban.jo (mobile app) |
2013 | Software & Tools | Hachi social platform search tool |
2013 | Software & Tools | R Project for Statistical Computing |
2013 | Software & Tools | R Studio |
2013 | Software & Tools | Learn to unlock government data with Sunlight Academy offered by the Sunlight Foundation |
2013 | Software & Tools | JS Console for debugging JavaScript |
2013 | Software & Tools | Programming Ruby 1.9 & 2.0 (4th edition): The Pragmatic Programmers’ Guide |
2013 | Software & Tools | Production code for Overview Server, which does visual document mining |
2013 | Software & Tools | mitmproxy (“man in the middle” proxy) inspect and edit traffic flows on the fly. SSL compatible. |
2013 | Software & Tools | Python Social Auth social authentication/registration mechanism |
2013 | Software & Tools | XCode iPhone simulator |
2013 | Software & Tools | jQuery Vertical Timeline by MinnPost |
2013 | Software & Tools | Rubular regular expression editor for Ruby |
2013 | Software & Tools | UltraEdit text editor (Windows only) |
2013 | Software & Tools | Tom MacWright’s Mistakes interactive JS editor |
2013 | Software & Tools | Sphinx open source search engine |
2013 | Software & Tools | NPR’s App Template project template for client-side apps |
2013 | Software & Tools | ILENE the polite coding language (from Jeff Larson) |
2013 | Software & Tools | Django Bakery helps bake your Django site out as flat files |
2013 | Software & Tools | Invar generates map tiles from a Mapnik configuration |
2013 | Software & Tools | Table Capture Chrome extension grabs table HTML and drops it into a Google doc |
2013 | Software & Tools | TableTools2 Firefox extension allows you to copy and manipulate table data from the Web |
2013 | Software & Tools | Haystax point-and-click data collection |
2013 | Software & Tools | Sisi Wei’s presentation framework |
2013 | Software & Tools | Bank Tracker contains data on every FDIC bank |
2013 | Software & Tools | Shpescape converts shape files to TopoJSON |
2013 | Software & Tools | Numeric.js JavaScript library for numerical calculations |
2013 | Software & Tools | Pixel Ping pixel tracker |
2013 | Software & Tools | Helium Scraper extracts website data into structured formats such as CSV and XML |
2013 | Software & Tools | Choose Your Own Adventure plug-in from Mother Jones |
2013 | Software & Tools | Timeline JS |
2013 | Software & Tools | The WNYC interactive Bingo card generator |
2013 | Software & Tools | Proof Finder search email and other unstructured data (designed for lawyers and investigators) |
2013 | Software & Tools | Paper of the Congressional Record (requires a key from Sunlight Labs) |
2013 | Software & Tools | YUI, an open source JavaScript and CSS library for developing interactive applications |
2013 | Software & Tools | Tarbell Google docs-driven CMS from the Chicago Tribune apps team (currently in alpha) |
2013 | Software & Tools | Chase Davis’s FEC Standardizer code and explainer |
2013 | Software & Tools | Al Shaw’s Dirtyword Ruby script cleans HTML from Word docs. |
2013 | References | Jeff Larson recommends “Eloquent JavaScript” as the best book for learning JS |
2013 | References | Mike Bostock’s d3.js tutorials (from Sharon Machlis) |
2013 | References | Scott Murray’s d3.js tutorials (from Sharon Machlis) |
2013 | References | How to select, create & remove elements in d3.js (from Jerome Cukier and Scott Murray) |
2013 | References | Computational Journalism syllabus from Journalism and Media Studies Center at the University of Hong Kong, Spring 2013 (from Jonathan Stray) |
2013 | References | Connected China from Fathom & Reuters (background) |
2013 | References | – Notes on Connected China by Chris Amico |
2013 | References | How to Bulletproof Your Data (from Jennifer LaFleur, ProPublica) |
2013 | References | Federal Reserve Economic Data (includes international data and an API; from Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis) |
2013 | References | Little Sis, a database of relationships between people in business and government |
2013 | References | OpenMissouri a collection of state and local government data from Missouri, some of which isn’t ordinarily made available online |
2013 | References | Privacy Rights Clearinghouse |
2013 | References | ProPublica’s News Apps Style Guide |
2013 | References | TheyRule shows the relationships between people in corporations |
2013 | References | Hadley Wickham’s academic paper on tidy data |
2013 | References | Hadley Wickham’s guide to using regular expressions in R |
2013 | References | ProPublica News Apps Desk Coding Manifesto |
2013 | References | ProPublica’s Principles of News App Design Structure |
2013 | References | Pretty Good Privacy (PGP) data encryption |
2013 | References | Tor Project |
2013 | References | OpenElections Project, certified historical election results for everyone |
2013 | References | Open Innovation and open APIs in Digital Journalism (academic paper by Tanja Aitamurto and Seth C. Lewis) |
2013 | References | Chart of the differences between PHP, Python and Ruby |
2013 | References | How to build a stepper visualization |
2013 | References | How to install MySQL on Mac OS or Windows |
2013 | References | R for Journalists |
2013 | References | A journalists’ guide to verifying images |
2013 | References | Finding the Wisdom in the Crowd (on verifying images found on social platforms) |
2013 | References | How to visualize your backlinks with Google Fusion Tables (network visualization tutorial) |
2013 | References | Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software |
2013 | References | Hospital Compare from Medicare.gov |
2013 | References | Winners of Kaggle’s campaign finance interactive reporting contest |
2013 | References | Working with Tabletop.js and Handlebars.js |
2013 | References | Impact of Responsive Designs |
2013 | References | Drew Conway’s Data Science Venn Diagram (now in d3.js!) |
2013 | References | How to Not Screw Up Your Data |
2013 | References | Did you watch Ben Welsh’s lightning talk? Here’s the presentation he credits for changing his life: Writing reusable code by James Bennett, now at Mozilla. Read the revamped slides |
2013 | Work Samples | The Year in CAR presentation by Mark Horvit and Megan Luther, IRE (7.1 MB PDF) |
2013 | Work Samples | The Year in CAR wrap by Ryan Graff, Knight Lab |
2013 | Work Samples | The Evolution of Sandy’s Path (Weather.com) |
2013 | Work Samples | Paralax Scrolling: James Bond (BBC) |
2013 | Work Samples | How the Chicago Tribune News Apps team made the Chicago Crime site |
2013 | Work Samples | Chinese Chemicals Flow Unchecked Onto World Drug Market (The New York Times) |
2013 | Work Samples | Income Inequality in America (Reuters) |
2013 | Work Samples | Australians who don’t pay tax: what would Romney say? (Financial Review) |
2013 | Work Samples | Mid-Year Economic and Fiscal Outlook (Financial Review) |
2013 | Work Samples | Workout at Work (Washington Post) |
2013 | Work Samples | Ad Libs (PBS Newshour) |
2013 | Work Samples | Could you be an Olympic medalist (from The Guardian) |
2013 | Work Samples | Fake medical providers slip through Medicare loophole (Atlanta Journal-Constitution) |
2013 | Work Samples | Medicare fraudsters used UPS boxes to fleece millions from taxpayers (Dayton Daily News) |
2013 | Work Samples | The Killing Roads 10 years of traffic accidents in Norway (bt.no) |