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From the tutorials page, you can search through the nearly 600 presentations made at IRE's NICAR conference from 2013 to 2015. Looking for story ideas? There are beat specific presentations on using data on your beat and tons of work samples from projects people have done around the country. Looking for inspiration? Try searching "50 ideas." Want to learn some new tricks in Excel? There are more than a dozen presentations or tipsheets on Excel alone. Kudos to Chrys Wu for providing this wonderful resource year-after-year.

Ron Campbell, formerly of the Orange County Register, once told the Ledger's data team "If you're doing this and you're not learning something every day, you're doing it wrong." So learn up!










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