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\nGet started using data in your stories with IRE's mini-boot camp. In this 6-hour, hands-on workshop, IRE\u2019s experienced trainers will start with the basics of navigating Google Sheets and using formulas, then walk you through sorting, filtering and aggregating data with pivot tables to find story ideas. You'll come away with a solid base for analyzing data in your newsroom, including how to find and request data, identify and clean dirty data, find story ideas and make your work ironclad. We\u2019ll also provide you with our detailed boot camp materials to help keep you on track long after you leave the conference.
Workshop prerequisites: There are no prerequisites for this workshop and beginners are welcome. This workshop is good for those wanting to get started analyzing data for stories.
Preregistration is required and seating is limited. Attendees will need to bring their own laptop for the training and must have a Google account.
Criminal justice data can be really messy! But isn't it tempting to ask questions from it? We will work with parole data to answer a straightforward question: How do Nebraska Parole Board members vote or miss votes? Flatwater Free Press reporter Yanqi Xu will show you how to reshape datasets to make them ready for analysis, and how to use data as a guide to identify impacted \u201creal people.\u201d
This session would be good for people with basic experience with R.
This three-hour, hands-on course will show you how journalists are putting Observable\u2019s powerful potential to work. Using nothing but your web browser, you will sketch, refine, and publish interactive graphics and data analysis notebooks like those created by The Marshall Project and Los Angeles Times. Along the way, you\u2019ll see how Observable\u2019s groundbreaking approach to coding can help you be more creative, ambitious, efficient, and collaborative. You will learn how to rapidly explore a dataset and share insights and data visualizations with JavaScript, Observable Plot and an interactive Observable notebook. Preregistration is required and seating is limited. You must bring your own laptop (no tablets) to participate in this class, and you'll need a free Observable account: observablehq.com.
Workshop prerequisites: Beginner to intermediate experience with Javascript, with basic knowledge of other web technologies like HTML, CSS, and SVGs. As long as you have a web browser, a working attitude, and willingness to ask for help, you\u2019ll be golden!
In this session, experienced journalists will guide you through a six-hour, hands-on investigation of money in politics.
You will learn:
* just enough Python to execute an analysis with pandas, one of the most popular open-source tools for working with data tables
* how to record, remix and republish your work using Jupyter, a browser-based tool emerging as the standard for reproducible research
* how to explore your data using the Altair data visualization library, a Python package that offers a simple, structured grammar for generating graphics.
Along the way you\u2019ll conduct your own investigation of California campaign donors using the Big Local News open-source database archive.
Preregistration is required and seating is limited. Laptops will be provided.
Prerequisites: If you've tried Python once or twice, have a good attitude and know how to take a few code crashes in stride, you are qualified.
Learn how to use the tidyverse, a collection of R packages, to help you make your data journalism more efficient, stronger and more fun. Learn how to import, clean, analyze and plot data for your stories. If you want to modernize your R workflow with dplyr, tidyr, readr, ggplot2, tibble and purr, this class is for you. This workshop assumes some familiarity with R and RStudio, or programming experience in another language (e.g., Python or JavaScript), but will start from the beginning with tidyverse principles.
Preregistration is required and seating is limited. Laptops will be provided for the training.
Workshop prerequisites: You should be comfortable working with R and RStudio and be familiar with basic data analysis.
The housing market has come to dominate the news lately, as mortgage rates have risen in an attempt to fight inflation, and having the additional effect of cooling off the real estate market after years of meteoric rises in home values. This came after decades of a widespread housing shortage, which had driven up values already, all working together to push home affordability\u2014and in many ways the American Dream\u2014out of reach for many. Making sense of this through data is where we can help. Realtor.com provides free, near-realtime housing market data that can be used to tell this story at any level, from national or statewide trends, down to the real estate dynamics at city or even ZIP code level. In this session, we will show NICAR attendees how to get and use Realtor.com's data, so they can immediately begin producing thorough, data-driven reporting on the housing market. Attendees will be able to take what they learn in this session and generate analyses that use time-series data, supply-and-demand metrics and even pairing Realtor.com's data with Census Bureau data to produce correlations between the housing market and demographics, as well as creating maps that illustrate the data.
Attendees will need to bring their own laptop (no tablets) to participate in this class.
We'll introduce you to R, a free, powerful open-source programming language that will take your data reporting to the next level. By the end of this three-hour session, you will be able to read data from common file types into R, clean and explore it, create visualizations, and make your entire data workflow reproduceable. We'll also talk about how to find help when you're stuck.
Preregistration is required and seating is limited. Attendees will need to bring their own laptop for the training and have R and RStudio installed.
Workshop prerequisites: This session will be most helpful if you\u2019re comfortable working with data and you\u2019re ready to take your skills to the next level.
This daylong crash course for beginners will give you the confidence you need to start building things for the web. You'll start from scratch and learn about HTML, CSS and JavaScript, then dive into some more advanced tools used by modern web developers around the world. Along the way, you'll learn about how and where to host your creations, the importance of accessibility-first development and other key topics.
Preregistration is required and seating is limited. Laptops will be provided for the training.
Workshop prerequisites: Some experience working with data in general. Knowledge of web development concepts is helpful but not required.
In this session, we'll talk about how national outlets can work with local reporters to produce data stories for their own communities.
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This course is designed to give you some tools and tactics to lead individuals and entire teams of investigators in a more effective way. Learn from four investigative managers from different media at different stages of their leadership careers. How did they launch into their roles, and what experience have they gained along the way? This course is for current investigative managers and anyone aspiring to step into such a position in the future.
Topics will include: managing compassionately, hiring challenges, transitioning to management, forging partnerships, building relationships, handling resource cuts, organization/structure, tough decisions/conversations, in-house training/growth, delivering feedback, creating inclusive opportunities, and juggling responsibilities/projects/work.
Preregistration is required and seating is limited. Attendees will need to bring their own laptop (no tablets) to participate in this class.
Google Sheets is more than just free spreadsheet software to organize and store data. This hands-on session will start with pivot tables and conditional formatting, and through examples, we'll also learn how to scrape data in seconds without code, automate menial tasks with macros, write custom spreadsheet formulas as well as how to send emails, geocode addresses, translate text and more \u2013 all through the power of Google Sheets. Come with a laptop and leave with the knowledge of a Google Sheets power user.
Preregistration is required and seating is limited. You must bring your own laptop (no tablets) to this training and have a Google account.
Workshop prerequisites: You should be familiar with using spreadsheets and formulas.
Google Sheets is more than just free spreadsheet software to organize and store data. This hands-on session will start with pivot tables and conditional formatting, and through examples, we'll also learn how to scrape data in seconds without code, automate menial tasks with macros, write custom spreadsheet formulas as well as how to send emails, geocode addresses, translate text and more \u2013 all through the power of Google Sheets. Come with a laptop and leave with the knowledge of a Google Sheets power user.
Preregistration is required and seating is limited. You must bring your own laptop (no tablets) to this training and have a Google account.
Workshop prerequisites: You should be familiar with using spreadsheets and formulas.
Whether you're interested in classifying images, sorting documents, summarizing text, transcribing audio, or a million other topics, machine learning is here to help!
Learn to set up practical machine learning pipelines in minutes: we'll train custom models, build easy-to-use web apps, host private APIs and more through the adorably-named Hugging Face. Whatever your level of technical comfort, we'll set you up with a system that works perfectly just for you.
Beyond showing off all our fun new tricks, we'll also look at the tradeoffs between ease-of-use versus diving deep into the innards of the machine. What nuance do we miss when we shovel the details off to a convenient tool?
You'll leave this session with a dozen new tools in your toolbox \u2013 at all levels of the tech tree \u2013 along with the confidence (or necessary suspicion) in wielding these tools in the newsroom.
Preregistration is required and seating is limited. You must bring your own laptop (no tablets) to this training.
More and more, newsrooms embrace mapping and spatial analysis as ways to highlight patterns and trends in data \u2014 and more and more, we might find ourselves frustrated in working with and visualizing geographic data. In this session, we'll discuss some ways that mapping falls short and ways we can improve it, and we'll get hands-on experience optimizing the mapping process in order to make it more collaborative, cohesive and repeatable. We will share our own tips, tricks and tools as well as encourage feedback from attendees so we can all take something new back to our own newsrooms!
\nPreregistration is required and seating is limited. Laptops will be provided.
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Preregistration is required and seating is limited. Laptops will be provided for the training.
Workshop prerequisites: You should have prior experience using Excel or Google Sheets, and be comfortable with introductory-level spreadsheet skills, such as sorting, filtering, SUM and AVERAGE functions, calculations such as percentage change or percent of total, and how to use pivot tables.
If you need data that's trapped on a website, writing some code to scrape the page could be your solution. This entry-level class will show you how to use the Python programming language to harvest information from websites into a data file. We'll introduce you to the command line and show you how to write enough code to fetch and parse content on the web.
Preregistration is required and seating is limited. Laptops will be provided.
Workshop prerequisites: This class is programming for beginners. Some basic familiarity with Python and HTML is helpful but not required.
Welcome to the conference! Hear from IRE staff about tips and tactics to navigate our conference like a pro. Also, you'll learn about key resources that IRE offers once you're back home.
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This session is good for: People who feel intimidated by the command line on their computer, but want to explore the power of command line tools.
In this introduction to spreadsheets, you'll begin analyzing data with Google Sheets, a simple but powerful tool. You'll learn how to enter data, navigate spreadsheets and conduct simple calculations like sum, average and median.
\nThis session is good for: Data beginners.
\nYou must bring your own laptop (no tablets) to participate in this class, and you will need a free Google account to participate.
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This session is good for: People with a basic understanding of data analysis who are ready to go beyond spreadsheets.
Much of Google Sheets' power comes in the form of formulas. In this class, you'll learn how to use them to analyze data with the eye of a journalist. Yes, math will be involved, but it's totally worth it! This class will show you how calculations like change, percent change, rates and ratios can beef up your reporting.
This session is good for: Anyone who has taken Google Sheets 1 or has been introduced to spreadsheets.
You must bring your own laptop (no tablets) to participate in this class, and you will need a free Google account to participate.
Over the past two years, public education has been flooded by a national debate on "controversial" topics such as lessons and books about race and racism, accurate history lessons that highlight marginalized voices and most recently, LGBTQ people, gender and sexual identity. There's various different ways to keep track of these challenges to public education, whether they're happening at the state level or within districts. This is a session that'll demonstrate how to stay on top of covering this culture war within K-12 education.
This session is good for people with basic experience working with data. Attendees will need to bring their own laptop (no tablets) to participate in this class.
Learn how to use OpenRefine, a powerful tool for quickly cleaning up dirty data. You'll learn about faceting, simple clustering, applying common data transformations and more.
This session is good for people with basic experience working with data.
We'll use the tidyverse packages dplyr and ggplot2, learning how to sort, filter, group, summarize, join, and visualize to identify trends in your data. If you want to combine SQL-like analysis and charting in a single pipeline, this session is for you.
This session is good for: People who have worked with data operations in SQL or Excel and would like to do the same in R.
A look at the awesome power of pivot \u2014 and how to use it to analyze your dataset in minutes rather than hours. We'll work up to using a pivot table by first sorting and filtering a dataset, learning how to find story ideas along the way.
This session is good for: Anyone familiar with formulas, sorting and filtering in a spreadsheet program.
You must bring your own laptop (no tablets) to participate in this class, and you will need a free Google account to participate.
Learn how to use R to scrape data from web pages, access APIs and transform the results into usable data. This session will also focus on how to clean and structure the data you've gathered in preparation for analysis using tidyverse packages.
This session is good for: People who have used R and have a basic understanding of how to retrieve data from APIs.
The sf (Simple Features) package in R represents vector geodata as data frames with the geometry held in a single list-column. As such, it allows you to process geodata in pipelines that consistent with the syntax of dplyr and other tidyverse packages. This session will provide an introduction to the Simple Features in R package, show how to draw maps from sf objects with ggplot2, and how to run spatial queries on geodata much as you would in PostGIS. This session is good for anyone who is comfortable working in R and the Tidyverse packages.
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Attendees will need to bring their own laptop (no tablets) to participate in this class.
Basic familiarity with R is a plus,
Download and install R and the free open-source version of R Studio for your operating system.
We'll be focusing on some basic statistical tools in R.
Please make sure you have installed the following packages:
install.packages(""tidyverse"") #Working with data
install.packages(""knitr"") #make code files
install.packages(""psych"") #stats
install.packages(""tidycensus"") #it will change your life
install.packages(""lme4"") #for logistic regression
install.packages(""boot"") #for logistic regression
install.packages(""ggeffects"") #for logistic regression
install.packages(""DescTools"") #for logistic regression
install.packages(""varhandle"") #for creating dummy variables
You've done a few pivot tables and are getting curious about what more you could do with them. What happens if you aggregate by more than one column? What are those "column" and "filter" boxes for? Come unlock the full potential of pivot tables in this intermediate spreadsheet class.
This session is good for: People familiar with spreadsheets and aggregating data with pivot tables, or anyone who has taken Sheets 1-3.
You must bring your own laptop (no tablets) to participate in this class, and you will need a free Google account to participate.
Join this class to learn how to \u201cliberate\u201d trapped data locked inside of PDF\u2019s. This class will cover basic approaches for getting text out of PDF documents using powerful and freely available tools. Participants will be introduced to basic concepts and walked through tackling common challenges encountered with tricky PDF documents.
This session is good for: People who are unfamiliar with PDF-to-text tools or would like to learn how these tools can be used for extracting difficult text from images embedded in a PDF document.
Prerequisites: Attendees should have access to a CometDocs account, which you can access through your IRE membership, the free software Tabula and access to Google Drive.
This class seeks to help you solve a common problem in journalism: Data stored in PDFs. We'll first walk through extracting text from a computer-generated PDF using a command-line tool. Then we'll step up to Optical Character Recognition, or OCR, to work on freeing data from image files.
This session is good for: People with experience using their computer's command-line interface.
Statistics can help you find newsworthy patterns by measuring relationships. This class will help you correctly interpret and report using methods such as correlation, linear regression, and t-test. It will help you visualize data and apply statistical significance. This class is for anyone with some spreadsheet knowledge and a little exposure to R Studio.
\nPreregistration is required and seating is limited.
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Some basic data analysis skills and knowledge of coding concepts is helpful, but not required.
Come check out some new packages created by members of the R community that may inspire you to try out some new exploratory data viz techniques with R. Creating small multiples for regions in a spatially meaningful way. Easy text annotations for exploratory charts. Animated data viz GIFs for social media. Fancy bivariate choropleth maps! Turn your headshot into a ridgeplot. Disclaimer: \u201cfancier\u201d doesn\u2019t necessarily mean useful.
This session is good for anyone who is comfortable working in R, and some experience with ggplot2 is helpful. Attendees will need to bring their own laptop (no tablets) to participate in this class.
Every online interaction begins with a lookup in the Domain Name System (DNS), the backbone of the Internet. As a result, there are digital footprints left behind in the DNS. With the demise of Whois, investigative reporters are looking for new tools to uncover these footprints. Learn how to use DNSDB Scout, a tool to query DNSDB, a historical passive DNS database, to discover previously unknown online connections and gain new information to advance your ongoing and breaking news investigations.
\nBasic knowledge of the Domain Name System (DNS) is helpful, but not required. Attendees will need to bring their own laptop (no tablets) to participate in this class.
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\nYou must bring your own laptop (no tablets) to participate in this class, and you will need to have QGIS3 installed in order to participate.
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You will learn how to:
* Create a GitHub repository to store your code online
* Write just enough Python to scrape a simple data file
* Configure GitHub Actions to schedule the scrape
* Log the results to the repository and make it publicly accessible
* Send a Slack notification when new data is logged
Preregistration is required and seating is limited. You must bring your own laptop (no tablets) to participate in this class, and prior to the class you should sign up for a free GitHub account prior to the class. If you have a good attitude and know how to take a few code crashes in stride, you are qualified. We want you.
Regular expressions are a powerful tool when working with data. They're supported by a variety of text editors, databases and programming languages, but they can be intimidating. Get familiar with the basics of regular expressions and how they can help with your next batch of dirty data.
This session is good for: People who have ever done more than two search/replace actions to clean a data set, or had to split a ZIP code from an address or otherwise want to conquer their fears of regex. Attendees will need to bring their own laptop (no tablets) to participate in this class.
Maybe you converted a PDF or imported a table into a spreadsheet -- or maybe an agency gave you a poorly formatted file. You can use string functions to reformat your data and get your spreadsheets working for you.
This session is good for: Anyone comfortable with using formulas and functions in Google Sheets.
You must bring your own laptop (no tablets) to participate in this class, and you will need a free Google account to participate.
Don't give up if your data isn't presented in a neat spreadsheet. This session will teach you how to get data into a spreadsheet and prepare it for analysis. We will look at how to import text files, deal with data in a PDF, and get a table on a web page into a spreadsheet.
This session is good for: Anyone comfortable working in Google Sheets.
You must bring your own laptop (no tablets) to participate in this class, and you will need a free Google account to participate.
You don't need a special statistics program to run simple statistical analysis. In this session, you'll learn how to compute some basic statistics in Excel and figure out what they mean.
This session is good for: People who already are comfortable with using functions in Excel.
This hands-on session will cover how graph databases (specifically the open-source graph database Neo4j) can be used to analyze data as part of data journalism investigations. We will learn how to import and model data in a graph database, how to query the data using the Cypher query language, and how to use graph algorithms like centrality, community detection, and graph embeddings alongside graph data visualization in the context of data journalism.
This session is good for anyone who is comfortable working with data. Some experience with SQL or coding would be helpful. Attendees will need to bring their own laptop (no tablets) to participate in this class.
The IRS collects vast amounts of data on millions of hospitals, universities, cultural organizations and other nonprofit organizations. Most of that information is public. You can find it in IRS Form 990. We\u2019ll use R to import and analyze some 990s, so bring your laptop. But you don\u2019t need to know any R for this session and you\u2019ll learn plenty about the nonprofit world.
This session is good for anyone who has some experience working with data. Attendees will need to bring their own laptop (no tablets) to participate in this class.
Data from the U.S. Census Bureau's American Community Survey can help you tell all kinds of important stories about your community. In this session, you will learn how to find and analyze this data in Google Sheets, and you'll leave with some ideas about how to incorporate these survey results into your coverage.
This session is good for anyone, no data experience necessary.
You must bring your own laptop (no tablets) to participate in this class, and you will need a free Google account to participate.
Like Lightning Talks, but for data. Five presenters will guide you through their favorite datasets.
VisiData is a fast, powerful, keyboard-driven tool for quickly exploring datasets. It's often the first piece of software I use to examine new data. In this hands-on session, you'll learn VisiData's essentials commands \u2014 including how to sort, filter, summarize and aggregate.
\nThis session is good for: People who have a basic familiarity with your computer's command line interface. No programming knowledge necessary, but some knowledge of Python is a plus.
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In this session, we'll use pdfplumber, an open-source Python library, to demonstrate some techniques. We'll also demystify some aspects of the PDF file format, which will come in handy no matter what tools you use.
This session would be good for: People with some prior experience using Python.
This class for beginners will use basic concepts and data on inflation to show how data journalism lets us find and tell stories. Simple spreadsheet exercises will show how to calculate inflation rates for various periods, areas, people and types of goods and services. We'll use the results to find and sharpen potential stories.
This session is good for anyone.
You must bring your own laptop (no tablets) to participate in this class, and you will need a free Google account to participate.
Connect large data sets to Google Sheets, which has UI patterns, querying tools and other affordances that more newsroom collaborators are comfortable with.
This session is good for: people comfortable with csv, cloud services, spreadsheets and some SQL familiarity.
Attendees will need to bring their own laptop (no tablets) to participate in this class.
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This session is good for: Beginners who want to start using data for their stories.
Attendees will need to bring their own laptop (no tablets) for the training and must have a Google account.
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We'll dig into some popular JSON-based map formats, ways to convert between them, and, ultimately, how to bend them to your will. By the end we'll be able to take a Census shapefile, extract from it exactly what we need, project it, and turn it into either a static image or a TopoJSON ready for your interactive web app. And we'll do it all from the command line using open-source tools, so you can wrap it up in a script and run it again and again!
This session would be good for people with some command-line experience who are comfortable getting knee-deep in some JSON.
Datasette is a growing ecosystem of tools for exploring and publishing data. With Datasette you can take raw data from a variety of different formats, import it into a SQLite-backed web interface, explore it, visualize it, map it and then publish it along with an API to enable further custom development.
This workshop will introduce Datasette using Datasette Cloud, a new hosted service that allows you to run the tools and collaborate on data projects with members of your team. Topics covered will include:
- Using Datasette Cloud to upload, explore and analyze data from a variety of sources
- Using full-text search and facets to quickly analyze large and complex datasets
- Visualizing numeric and geographic data using Datasette plugins
- Running Datasette and associated tools on your own machine using the command line
This session is good for anyone. Basic familiarity with SQL and the command line is helpful but not necessary.
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This session is for reporters who want to diversify their data sources. You don't need to write code: we'll teach participants to find hidden APIs in your web browser, but knowing some coding will let you to unlock detailed and rich datasets hidden in plain sight. Attendees will need to bring their own laptop (no tablets) to participate in this class.
We'll be working off this scripted documented.
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This session is good for: Beginners who want to start using data for their stories.
Attendees will need to bring their own laptop (no tablets) for the training and must have a Google account.
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At Kansas State University, while journalism students are excited about generating graphics with the assistance of AI bots, the Kansas State Collegian editorial board has quite a lot of concerns. In this session, the news staff will share their perspectives on why they haven't rushed to adopt AI art creation tools in their newsroom yet. Tips on how to work with the bots will also be shared.
Algorithms are everywhere, but for many journalists, it's hard to question the\u00a0accuracy of the developer's data and PR. When journalists use investigative methods to test the tools themselves, in stories for the Guardian, MIT Technology Review and The Dallas Morning News, many AI products underperformed, or led to dangerous and discriminatory outcomes. In this panel, we will discuss what methods journalists can use to hold AI accountable - even those who work as freelance reporters.
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Three experienced data journalists will share stories, story ideas, and concrete tips for chasing those stories for mainstream journalists to test their hypotheses and extract publishable facts from the blockchain. Their stories have run the gamut from investigating a widespread life-altering financial fraud dependent on a quirk of the Ethereum network, tracking ransomware, examining potential sanctions violations and possible insider trading.
How can you know if your work is reaching its intended audience, having an impact, or helping your company make money? Let's talk about the different types of analytics that newsrooms are using to quantify their investigative work.
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\nThis session is sponsored by the Lumina Foundation. IRE retains control of content, including the topic and speaker selection, for all conference sessions.
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One of the biggest challenges is understanding the role of landlords in rapidly gentrifying markets. San Francisco Chronicle\u2019s Susie Neilson worked for months to uncover some of the biggest property owners in her city and will share the lessons of this work.
Gathering reliable data on homelessness is another major challenge facing journalists today. Amy DiPierro worked to explain what we know about how homelessness impacts children and schools, a side of this issue that many times is overlooked.
Discuss ongoing research to trace and group pieces of misinformation to their source. Fact-checkers tend to focus on the pieces of misinformation as individual pieces of content, however, it has been shown in previous research that most misinformation originates from a small number of malicious sources who then actively spread it to a wider audience.
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Thanks to new data mandated by the feds and collected by Edunomics, it's possible to find the answers.
Learn more from top education reporters and analysts on how to translate this into stories for your community.
In this session, panelists will share key data that they\u2019ve relied on while reporting on the aftermath of the Dobbs decision to ultimately tell a larger story about public health, including from the CDC and WHO on maternal mortality, the AMA on OB/GYN training and workforces, and more. Speakers will point reporters to those sources and encourage them to think about new ways to tell the post-Dobbs story, with angles that go beyond abortion.
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\nIn this panel, speakers will provide an overview of the big reform discussions happening as well as key datasets reporters can use to investigate the extent of nursing home staffing problems in their state, as well as the campaign influence of the nursing home industry that has routinely fought reforms.
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While the Uniform Code of Military Justice means each branch shares the same legal code, data is separately kept by each branch and records may need to be requested from individual bases, an appellate court or the public information officers. Hear from experienced military reporters discuss data and records available to report on a military post near you, the common pitfalls, story ideas and terminology crucial to this topic.
NICAR is one of the best ways to learn new tools and get motivated. But what about the other 362 days of the year? This session will give you tips, tricks and tools for staying connected to the data journalism community and keeping your skills sharp year-round. We\u2019ll also talk about problem-solving strategies for the \u201clonely coders\u201d out there.
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This session is good for: People comfortable with Python and Jupyter notebook. Taking or having taken "introduction to Python for data analysis" or "first Python notebook" is strongly recommended.
Attendees will need to bring their own laptop (no tablets) and have a free Google account to participate in this class.
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Using a range of tools (free and otherwise), we walk you through how to investigate the provenance and ownership of websites: how can you identify the scope and scale of the network it belongs to \u2014 if any? Who\u2019s behind the site, now and in the past? Who are the main actors promoting this website? Where else does this site crop up?
While it is not always possible to fully unmask the owner of a site, using a thorough checklist of tools and techniques that we have used in real-world investigations, we can help you make sure to reveal as much as possible about a website, and potentially uncover important clues.
The Data-Driven Reporting Project was founded to support newsrooms who might otherwise lack the tools, training or capacity to do more technically-focused investigative reporting. These are often smaller newsrooms with fewer resources. In June 2022 the DDRP announced 22 newsrooms will receive a financial award and additional support in trainings, mentorship, and access to technology to develop local data and document-based investigative projects. Come to this session to hear critical lessons learned from three published projects. Attendees will be able to understand the impact of these projects and learn how can others can get motivated to work on document/data-powered investigations.
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