<commit_before>Title;Speaker;Place;Day;Time;Description
Breaking local stories with economic data (Sponsored by <NAME>s National Center for Business Journalism);<NAME>, <NAME>, <NAME>;Regency North;Wednesday;2 p.m. - 5 p.m.;
CAR Conference Registration (Wednesday);TBA;2nd Floor;Wednesday;3 p.m. - 5 p.m.;Registration will be located on the 2nd floor of the Hyatt Regency Louisville.
CAR Conference Sales (Thursday);TBA;2nd Floor;Thursday;7:30 a.m. - 5 p.m.;"Stop by the IRE sales table and take a look at our merchandise. We will be selling books, including the newest title in the IRE beat book series. The large selection of titles we carry will certainly include your interests. The winners of the IRE T-shirt contest will be displayed and on sale. The sales table is also the place to get your ticket to ""A Night on the Town"" an event that is sure to be a fun time! All proceeds from your purchase help support IRE and its mission."
CAR Conference Registration (Thursday);TBA;2nd Floor;Thursday;7:30 a.m. - 5 p.m.;Registration will be located on the 2nd floor of the Hyatt Regency Louisville.
Making the best use of the conference;<NAME>, <NAME>, <NAME>;Regency Center;Thursday;8:30 a.m. - 8:50 a.m.;Welcome to the conference! IRE staff will highlight key sessions and events that you won't want to miss while in Louisville. We'll also give you a brief rundown on some of the resources IRE has to offer.
Build your first News App with Django (Friday);TBA;Seneca/Iroquois;Thursday;9 a.m. - 11:50 a.m.;"This mini-boot camp will walk you through the process of taking a dataset from raw data and turning it into a searchable online database using the Python language and the Django Web framework. &nbsp;Only 18 seats are available and there is an additional $70 registration fee. &nbsp;Pre-registrations are accepted on a first-come, first-served basis. &nbsp;Prospective attendees must register and fill out an application for this hands-on camp. &nbsp;Please "
My friend FRED: Using Fed data tools to add context to stories;<NAME>;<NAME>;Thursday;9 a.m. - 9:50 a.m.;An introduction to Federal Reserve Economic Data (FRED), the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis' signature economics database, with easy directions for journalists to tap into it to add context to their stories related to the economy. FRED contains more than 60,000 frequently updated sets of data, ranging from consumer price indexes to regional (metropolitan statistical area) housing charts and unemployment rates. It allows users to automatically compare the data over varying periods of time in customizable charts, and then easily incorporate those charts into print or web publications.
Tableau Public for beginners (Hosted by Tableau Public);<NAME>, <NAME>;Seneca/Iroquois;Thursday;9 a.m. - 11:50 a.m.;"Learn how to create beautiful, interactive data visualizations on short deadlines. &nbsp;No programming required. &nbsp;You'll learn everything you need to build data visualizations and publish them to your website just like a video. &nbsp;We'll teach you how to:"
Getting started: Digging deep with data journalism;<NAME>, <NAME>, <NAME>;Regency Center;Thursday;9 a.m. - 9:50 a.m.;Are you new to data journalism or does this happen to be your first time at a CAR conference? If so, this session will help you get on track to make sure that you get the best experience possible from the 2013 CAR Conference. We'll highlight sessions and give you tips for success during and after the conference.
Information design and crossing the digital divide;<NAME>, <NAME>;Regency North;Thursday;9 a.m. - 9:50 a.m.;
Exploratory data analysis;<NAME>;Regency South;Thursday;9 a.m. - 9:50 a.m.;
NewsCamp:: Data Science Master Class;<NAME>;Keeneland;Thursday;9 a.m. - 4:50 p.m.;"This day-long, hands-on class taught by <NAME>, author of theggplot2 R plug-in, Assistant Professor of Statistics at Rice University, and developer at RStudio. &nbsp;"
Python mini-bootcamp;TBA;Kentucky Suite;Thursday;9 a.m. - 4:50 p.m.;"This mini-bootcamp introduces Python as a general purpose tool for data wrangling and analysis. &nbsp;The daylong class will introduce language basics and useful libraries in the course of a typical data project: sraping data from the Web, inserting it in a database and analyzing the results. Attendees are expected to have a familiarity with databases and SQL. &nbsp;This class will take place all day Thursday. &nbsp;There is limited seating and an additional fee to attend.&nbsp;"
Hands-on: Rapid data publishing with Caspio (Hosted by Caspio);TBA;Shawnee/Cherokee;Thursday;9 a.m. - 10:50 a.m.;This session will cover prepping and importing data, creating a searchable database, report interfaces and layouts and common customizations.
Use FOIA Machine to prepare, send and track your public records requests;<NAME>, <NAME>, <NAME>, <NAME>;<NAME>;Thursday;10 a.m. - 10:50 a.m.;FOIA Machine aids journalists and citizens in accessing important government documents around the world that are covered by freedom of information laws. Speakers will demonstrate how journalists can use the platform in regular work and make the FOIA process more successful and organized.
Waste investigations for any community;<NAME>, <NAME>, <NAME>, <NAME>;Regency Center;Thursday;10 a.m. - 10:50 a.m.;**Moderated by <NAME>, Investigative Reporting Workshop
Visualizing networks and connections;<NAME>, <NAME>;Regency South;Thursday;10 a.m. - 10:50 a.m.;
The data-driven story (Part 1) Conceiving and launching;<NAME>, <NAME>, <NAME>ston;Regency Center;Thursday;11 a.m. - 11:50 a.m.;*Moderated by Brant Houston, University of Illinois
Down and dirty with the DocumentCloud API;Ted Han;Churchill Downs;Thursday;11 a.m. - 11:50 a.m.;Journalists use DocumentCloud to turn documents into data, but did you know you can interact with your documents through DocumentCloud's API? We'll show you how other journalists use DocumentCloud's API and demonstrate how you too can update or access your documents' data with some rudimentary scripting.
Web tools for investigators;<NAME>, <NAME>;Regency South;Thursday;11 a.m. - 11:50 a.m.;
Demo: New Map Mashup Wizard (Hosted by Caspio);TBA;Shawnee/Cherokee;Thursday;11 a.m. - 11:50 a.m.;"Caspio's new Map Mashup Wizard (v7) automates Google map intergration in a single wizard and now includes icons and interactive filtering. &nbsp;Topics covered:"
Monetizing your work;<NAME>, <NAME>, <NAME>, <NAME>, <NAME>;Regency North;Thursday;11 a.m. - 11:50 a.m.;**Moderated by Reg Chua, Reuters
Demo: Sneak peek of Caspio Bridge 8.0 Beta (Hosted by Caspio);TBA;Shawnee/Cherokee;Thursday;noon - 12:30 p.m.;Get an exclusive preview of the new features and redesigned user interface. Plus, learn how to join the private beta for advanced access.
Dig deeper with social tools (Sponsored by Kiplinger Program in Public Affairs Journalism/Ohio State University);<NAME>, <NAME>;Regency South;Thursday;2 p.m. - 2:50 p.m.;
Mobile + DataViz: Friends or frenemies?;<NAME>, <NAME>;Regency North;Thursday;2 p.m. - 2:50 p.m.;Mobile and responsive web design are changing the way stories are told. Complicated data visualizations, which used to be planned for the desktop, now need to be planned so they can work for mobile, tablets, and desktops. Different devices mean different user-experiences for visualizations, which changes how information is consumed. We'll show some samples of successful and not-so successful data visualizations on a responsively-designed news site. We'll talk about workflow, best practices and user-interface patterns that set you up for success.
Tableau Public for Pros (Hosted by Tableau Public);<NAME>, <NAME>;Seneca/Iroquois;Thursday;2 p.m. - 5 p.m.;"Take your data visualization skills to the next level. &nbsp;In this class we'll push Tableau's capabilities further to create more complex visualizations. &nbsp;You'll learn how to:&nbsp;"
Hands-on: Build apps with user generated data (Hosted by Caspio);TBA;Shawnee/Cherokee;Thursday;2 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.;This session will cover data submissions and photo uploads, Geo/mobile tagging for maps, content approval policies and tips to driving traffic and engagement.
Bringing Excel to the Web with Excel 2013 and SkyDrive;<NAME>;<NAME>;Thursday;2 p.m. - 2:50 p.m.;This talk will cover how to use Excel Interactive View and Excel embedding to make your articles shine, keep people engaged with your site, with minimal effort and for free. The talk will also be showing off some of the latest features of Excel 2013 that make data analysis a snap.
The data-driven story (Part 2) Putting the package together;<NAME>, Brant Houston;Regency Center;Thursday;2 p.m. - 2:50 p.m.;These three sessions will show how to take a data driven story from start to finish and includes long-time practitioners as speakers. Using a specific U.S. federal database the team of journalists will cover how to check a database for its flaws and omissions, analyze it and find stories out of it, add reporting and precision editing for the stories, and work to visualize the information and data not only for presentation, but also to elicit more tips and ideas from the public.
Leveling up (with) your community;<NAME>, <NAME>;Regency South;Thursday;3 p.m. - 3:50 p.m.;
Practical machine learning: Tips, tricks and real-world examples for using machine learning in the newsroom;<NAME>, <NAME>;Regency North;Thursday;3 p.m. - 3:50 p.m.;
Wrangling Web data with Google docs - beginner course;<NAME>, <NAME>;<NAME>;Thursday;3 p.m. - 3:50 p.m.;Review methods for importing web data into the Google Docs platform. Learn to fetch external web data, create scripts to schedule fetches in batches and process the data. No programming skills required. Those familiar with the Microsoft Excel application will be familiar with many of the concepts. Experienced programmers can learn to develop web application proofs of concept, prototyping and fetching through API.
The data-driven story (Part 3) Bulletproofing and presentation;<NAME>, <NAME>ston, <NAME>;Regency Center;Thursday;3 p.m. - 3:50 p.m.;*Moderated by Brant Houston, University of Illinois
Hone your Fusion Tables training skills;<NAME>;Regency Center;Thursday;4 p.m. - 7 p.m.;Format: 3-hr workshop plus optional dinner gathering. Drinks and dessert will be provided during workshop.
"No complaints: Navigating the New American Fact Finder; improvements and updates";Erran Persley;<NAME>;Thursday;4 p.m. - 4:50 p.m.;
How government is winning the war about releasing data;<NAME>, <NAME>, <NAME>, <NAME>;Regency South;Thursday;4 p.m. - 4:50 p.m.;"&nbsp;"
Demo: Sneak peek of Caspio Bridge 8.0 Beta  (Hosted by Caspio);TBA;Shawnee/Cherokee;Thursday;5 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.;Get an exclusive preview of the new features and redesigned user interface. Plus, learn how to join the private beta for advanced access.
A Night on the Town (Social Event);TBA;See printed schedule for room information;Thursday;6:30 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.;"Join your fellow CAR colleagues Thursday at Sports and Social Club for a night of competitive bowling and see which team wins the night's best score. &nbsp;Beginning at 6:30 p.m., you can grab a drink and socialize or form a team and bowl."
Networking breakfast for CAR mentoring program participants (Sponsored by Scripps Howard Foundation);TBA;Pimlico;Friday;8 a.m. - 8:45 a.m.;"Coffee and pastries will be served. &nbsp;This is an invitation-only event."
CAR Conference Registration (Friday);TBA;2nd Floor;Friday;8 a.m. - 5 p.m.;Registration will be located on the 2nd floor of the Hyatt Regency Louisville.
CAR Conference Sales (Friday);TBA;2nd Floor;Friday;8 a.m. - 5 p.m.;"Stop by the IRE sales table and take a look at our merchandise. We will be selling books, including the newest title in the IRE beat book series. The large selection of titles we carry will certainly include your interests. The winners of the IRE T-shirt contest will be displayed and on sale. The sales table is also the place to get your ticket to ""A Night on the Town"" an event that is sure to be a fun time! All proceeds from your purchase help support IRE and its mission."
Year in CAR;<NAME>, <NAME>;Regency Center;Friday;9 a.m. - 9:50 a.m.;What were the big stories of the year? What were the most creative uses of data analysis? See what your colleagues have been up to and pick up some story ideas at the same time.
Intro to SQLite;<NAME>;Kentucky Suite;Friday;9 a.m. - 9:50 a.m.;
Mapping 1: Displaying data geographically;<NAME>, <NAME>;Keeneland;Friday;9 a.m. - 9:50 a.m.;
Those dastardly PDFs;<NAME>, <NAME>;Regency North;Friday;9 a.m. - 9:50 a.m.;So much data comes to us in .pdf form or, worse, on paper that we then need to scan. We'll offer tips, tricks and best practices to quickly crack open those dastardly files and get the data in a usable format. We'll look at some of classic methods of breaking down PDFs and we'll introduce a tool that uses XML to splice PDFs and turn them into CSVs.
Bringing local Geodata to journalism: Exploring Floating Sheep and the DOLLY (Data on Local Life and You) Project;<NAME>, <NAME>;Churchill Downs;Friday;9 a.m. - 9:50 a.m.;
Legal issues, access and big data;<NAME>, <NAME>, Esq., <NAME>;Regency South;Friday;9 a.m. - 9:50 a.m.;
Integrity checks and simple data cleaning;<NAME>;Gulfstream/Hialeah;Friday;9 a.m. - 9:50 a.m.;
Excel 1;<NAME>;Shawnee/Cherokee;Friday;9 a.m. - 9:50 a.m.;Performing simple calculations and sorting.
Build your first News App with Django (Saturday);TBA;Seneca/Iroquois;Friday;9 a.m. - 11:50 a.m.;*Pre-registered attendees only
NewsCamp::Data science for the perplexed. For everyone;<NAME>;Regency North;Friday;10 a.m. - 10:50 a.m.;
Data viz on a shoestring;<NAME>, <NAME>;Regency South;Friday;10 a.m. - 10:50 a.m.;
Intro to programing in Ruby;Al Shaw;Kentucky Suite;Friday;10 a.m. - 10:50 a.m.;
Mapping 2: Importing and selecting data by attribute;<NAME>, <NAME>;Keeneland;Friday;10 a.m. - 10:50 a.m.;
Introduction to text editors;<NAME>, <NAME>;Gulfstream/Hialeah;Friday;10 a.m. - 10:50 a.m.;
The OpenElections Project: Certified election results. For everyone.;<NAME>, <NAME>;<NAME>;Friday;10 a.m. - 10:50 a.m.;We'll introduce our project to create the first comprehensive, standardized set of federal election data. This will include a demo of how to access data from the project, and how potential contributors can get involved.
Inspect this;<NAME>, <NAME>;Regency Center;Friday;10 a.m. - 10:50 a.m.;Uncover the gold mine of inspection data. Get ideas and techniques on how to track inspectors at each level of government. Walk away with story ideas to impress your boss at home.
Excel 2;<NAME>;Shawnee/Cherokee;Friday;10 a.m. - 10:50 a.m.;Calculating ratios and rates.
Data cleaning with text editors;<NAME>, <NAME>;Gulfstream/Hialeah;Friday;11 a.m. - 11:50 a.m.;
Covert reporting using technology to cover your tracks;<NAME>, <NAME>;Regency North;Friday;11 a.m. - 11:50 a.m.;
Mapping 3: Geocoding to merge databases with addresses into maps;<NAME>, <NAME>;Keeneland;Friday;11 a.m. - 11:50 a.m.;
CAR on the beat;<NAME>, <NAME>;Regency South;Friday;11 a.m. - 11:50 a.m.;You don't have to be a dedicated data-hacker to do CAR stories. Stop by to learn tips and tricks to find and turn around CAR stories while working your beat.
Smarter interactive Web projects with Google Spreadsheets and Tabletop.js;<NAME>;<NAME>;Friday;11 a.m. - 11:50 a.m.;Death to tediously hand-crafted flat files! This killer combo offers a way to suck structured data out of Google Spreadsheets and plug it into whatever program/platform/framework you'd like, via simple javascript syntax. Ergo, the data is easily shared with every reporter, editor, fact-checker, copy editor, etc. in your newsroom, and all updates are real time.
Is 911 a joke in your town?;<NAME>, <NAME>;Regency Center;Friday;11 a.m. - 11:50 a.m.;Get up and get down with our panel to go home with a game plan to find out if your local public safety departments are arriving. We'll break down all the jargon and provide a shake-and-bake recipe for analyzing 911 response times at any American fire department or EMS shop.
Excel 3;<NAME>;Shawnee/Cherokee;Friday;11 a.m. - 11:50 a.m.;Learn pivot tables, filtering and more.
Intro to Javascript the right way;<NAME>, <NAME>;Kentucky Suite;Friday;11 a.m. - 11:50 a.m.;
Media Lawyers <NAME>;<NAME>, Esq., <NAME>, <NAME>;Regency South;Friday;noon - 1:45 p.m.;"Here's your chance for informal Q&amp;A about legal issues. Bring your ""hypotheticals"" and your own lunch. &nbsp;Beverages and dessert will be provided."
"D3? R? Tableau? What&#39;s right for you?";<NAME>, <NAME>;Regency North;Friday;2 p.m. - 2:50 p.m.;When it comes to visualizing data, you know you want to be nimble in something. But what should that something be? A look - with examples - at some of the trade-offs between using a tool like Tableau versus a programming approach like D3.
Mapping as a storytelling platform: Esri Story Maps and ArcGIS Online;<NAME>;<NAME>;Friday;2 p.m. - 2:50 p.m.;Esri experts offer a 50-minute workshop to provide insight into how the company's new ArcGIS Online product can be maximized as a platform to enhance storytelling. Esri Story Maps and other app development tools that require no programming expertise are now available to make digital and print map generation more effective and easier to create.
Data on the fly: Real-time news coverage;<NAME>, <NAME>;Regency South;Friday;2 p.m. - 2:50 p.m.;
Twitter mechanics, strategy and apps;<NAME>;Gulfstream/Hialeah;Friday;2 p.m. - 2:50 p.m.;
Mini-Boot Camp (Friday) Team A;TBA;Seneca/Iroquois;Friday;2 p.m. - 4:50 p.m.;"Kickstart your data skills with IRE's mini boot camp. &nbsp;This series of hands-on classes will introduce you to spreadsheets and databases with IRE's proven techniques. &nbsp;IRE's current and past trainers will walk you through sorting, calculating and interviewing data. &nbsp;You'll come away with a solid base for using data analysis in your own newsroom. &nbsp;In addition, we'll provide you with our boot camp materials to help keep you on track long after you leave the conference. &nbsp;Only 36 seats are available and there is an additional $50 registration fee. &nbsp;Pre-registrations are accepted on a first-come, first-served basis. &nbsp;Registration can be done online when you register for the conference. &nbsp;Sessions will be held Friday and Saturday afternoon and Sunday morning. &nbsp;"
Excel magic: Advanced functions for data cleaning and more;<NAME>;Keeneland;Friday;2 p.m. - 2:50 p.m.;
Mini-Boot Camp (Friday) Team B;TBA;Shawnee/Cherokee;Friday;2 p.m. - 4:50 p.m.;*Pre-registered attendees only
Beyond the scoreboard: Using data to investigate sports;<NAME>, <NAME>;Regency Center;Friday;2 p.m. - 2:50 p.m.;
Getting started with open-source database manager MySQL;<NAME>;Kentucky Suite;Friday;2 p.m. - 2:50 p.m.;
From CAR to news apps and back again;<NAME>, <NAME>, <NAME>, <NAME>, <NAME>, <NAME>, <NAME>;Regency North;Friday;3 p.m. - 3:50 p.m.;*Moderated by T<NAME>, The Associated Press
Using OpenRefine to clean and explore dirty data;<NAME>;Keeneland;Friday;3 p.m. - 3:50 p.m.;
How to serve mad traffic;<NAME>, <NAME>, <NAME>;<NAME>;Friday;3 p.m. - 3:50 p.m.;
Searching the global deep web for better data and information;Scott Swigart;Regency South;Friday;3 p.m. - 3:50 p.m.;
Practical document mining with DocumentCloud and overview;<NAME>, <NAME>;Kentucky Suite;Friday;3 p.m. - 3:50 p.m.;Tame that stack of documents! In this workshop we'll walk you through the analysis of a large set of text documents (thousands of pages) using two free tools: DocumentCloud and Overview. You'll learn how to upload, OCR, search, visualize, cluster, tag, annotate, and publish your documents.
Amazon cloud basics;<NAME>;Gulfstream/Hialeah;Friday;3 p.m. - 3:50 p.m.;Cloud servers are an amazingly flexible way to use computing resources. Servers and test benches used to take weeks to order and configure, but thanks to the cloud, you can build up arbitrarily complex farms of computers to do your bidding in a few minutes, from serving a dynamic news app to crunching through a data set to trying out a new technology on the cheap. This course will help you understand the thicket of acronyms and programs that make up Amazon's AWS system and will get you started building servers.
Disasters: Preparing for and digging in after the storm;<NAME>, <NAME>;Regency Center;Friday;3 p.m. - 3:50 p.m.;
Finding the bad guys: Tricks for joining lists of people;<NAME>, <NAME>;<NAME>;Friday;4 p.m. - 4:50 p.m.;Identifying people who appear in two databases can give an investigation sweep and take it to the next level: think about matching camp operators and sex offenders, or felons and almost anything. But such joins are difficult and time-consuming, particularly if you have names but not dates of birth. Learn techniques to sidestep those issues by combining your favorite database software with simple scripting and some old-fashioned reporting. By the end of the session, you'll know how to match messy addresses and how to highlight promising hits based on name alone -- exactly what you need to find some bad guys and beef-up your next project.
Computer Science 101: How to speak the language of the people who speak computer;<NAME>, <NAME>;Regency South;Friday;4 p.m. - 4:50 p.m.;
Lightning Talks;<NAME>;Regency Center;Friday;4 p.m. - 4:50 p.m.;
Stats in Excel;<NAME>;Keeneland;Friday;4 p.m. - 4:50 p.m.;
Philip Meyer Award Reception (co-sponsored by Northwestern University Knight Lab);TBA;Regency North;Friday;5:15 p.m. - 6:30 p.m.;"Join fellow CAR attendees for the presentation of the Philip Meyer Journalism Awards at a reception Friday night with light hor d' oeuvres and a cash bar beginning at 5:15 p.m. in Regency North. &nbsp;Thanks to "
CAR Focus Group;<NAME>;<NAME>;Saturday;8:15 a.m. - 8:45 a.m.;Please join IRE staff over a cup of coffee to discuss what attracted you to the conference and what you'd like to see in future years.
CAR Conference Registration (Saturday);TBA;2nd Floor;Saturday;8:30 a.m. - 5 p.m.;Registration will be located on the 2nd floor of the Hyatt Regency Louisville.
CAR Conference Sales (Saturday);TBA;2nd Floor;Saturday;8:30 a.m. - 5 p.m.;"Stop by the IRE sales table and take a look at our merchandise. We will be selling books, including the newest title in the IRE beat book series. The large selection of titles we carry will certainly include your interests. The winners of the IRE T-shirt contest will be displayed and on sale. The sales table is also the place to get your ticket to ""A Night on the Town"" an event that is sure to be a fun time! All proceeds from your purchase help support IRE and its mission."
The great divide: Investigating income inequality;<NAME>, <NAME>, <NAME>;Regency Center;Saturday;9 a.m. - 9:50 a.m.;"Income inequality zoomed into the headlines with the Occupy movement and the 2012 presidential campaign, but most coverage was more about heat than light. Talk of an ""income gap"" ""or the 99%"" obscures a complicated reality and ignores most of the story - trends in the middle class. Income inequality is growing in many places, shrinking in others. Its pace and texture vary. Some causes are global and national, some are local. Come learn better ways to cover a complex story, including how journalists did recent stories and data tools you can use to analyze local trends."
Discovery, validation, publication: How to be ready for your social media Sandy;<NAME>;<NAME>;Saturday;9 a.m. - 9:50 a.m.;<NAME> will use examples from Hurricane Sandy and other news events to show you how to find photos and information on social media and evaluate their authenticity.
SPSS 1: Introduction to SPSS;<NAME>;Keeneland;Saturday;9 a.m. - 9:50 a.m.;Navigate SPSS using descriptive statistics and frequencies. Create basic counts and percentages to help you understand your data. Do crosstabs and statistical tests to show the data in different ways.
Access 1;<NAME>;Shawnee/Cherokee;Saturday;9 a.m. - 9:50 a.m.;"An introduction to Microsoft Access using SQL. &nbsp;Learn to interview your data by selecting, sorting and filtering."
Building data-driven beats;<NAME>, <NAME>, Reginald Chua;Regency South;Saturday;9 a.m. - 9:50 a.m.;
Fundamentals of programming in Python;<NAME>;Kentucky Suite;Saturday;9 a.m. - 9:50 a.m.;
How can we get the widest impact out of technology projects?;<NAME>, <NAME>, <NAME>;Regency North;Saturday;9 a.m. - 9:50 a.m.;*Moderated by <NAME>, Medill School of Journalism, Northwestern University
Dispatch: Secure, authenticated, instant mobile publishing;<NAME>, <NAME>, <NAME>, <NAME>;<NAME>;Saturday;10 a.m. - 10:50 a.m.;Dispatch is a unique publishing tool that allows journalists working in conflict areas to publish their work and communicate with sources instantly and securely. Using a unique, identity-based encryption scheme, Dispatch helps separate your published work from your real identity, while still giving your readers confidence that the material you post really came from you. And, while it publishes to the internet, Dispatch helps make sure your work gets out even when the internet is down, through direct, device-to-device sharing that publishes to the web as soon as connectivity is restored.
SPSS 2: Basic linear regression;<NAME>;Keeneland;Saturday;10 a.m. - 10:50 a.m.;
The one-query story: Quick hits for your newsroom;<NAME>, <NAME>, <NAME>;Regency Center;Saturday;10 a.m. - 10:50 a.m.;**Moderated by <NAME>, IRE/NICAR
"Fundamentals of programming in Python (cont&#39;d)";<NAME>;Kentucky Suite;Saturday;10 a.m. - 10:50 a.m.;
Access 2;<NAME>;Shawnee/Cherokee;Saturday;10 a.m. - 10:50 a.m.;An overview of summarizing databases with counting and summing using SQL in Microsoft Access.
Beyond mapping: Data analysis using Fusion Tables;<NAME>, <NAME>;Gulfstream/Hialeah;Saturday;10 a.m. - 10:50 a.m.;
Prying it loose: Data negotiation and acquisition;<NAME>, <NAME>;Regency South;Saturday;10 a.m. - 10:50 a.m.;
Inside baseball: What data journalism can learn from sports;<NAME>, <NAME>, <NAME>;Regency North;Saturday;10 a.m. - 10:50 a.m.;"This panel will identify areas for data journalism exploration by examining the current state-of-the-art baseball data analysis. Sports are the original form of data journalism -- box scores predate open government movements by about a century. And <NAME>'s ""Baseball Hacks"" trained newbie Web CAR reporters how to scrape and analyze data sets using Perl and MySQL. Finally, sports analytics are a leading indicator for other kinds of analysis. Sensors, economic analysis, leverage are all de rigeur in baseball but still up-and-coming in data journalism. We'll take the concepts being used to analyze baseball, football, soccer and apply them to standard data journalism chores. A good example of this is leverage -- in baseball, an analyst attempts to find those situations in which a player had the greatest opportunity to change the outcome of a game. In data journalism, we might use a similar tool to analyze critical paths to an election win for a candidate or put together a network graph for bundled contributions to PACs."
Access 3;<NAME>;Shawnee/Cherokee;Saturday;11 a.m. - 11:50 a.m.;Learn how to join tables, matching information from one file to another, using SQL in Microsoft Access.
Data tactics for the well-rounded business reporter;<NAME>, <NAME>;Regency Center;Saturday;11 a.m. - 11:50 a.m.;
Scraping with Node.js;Al Shaw;Kentucky Suite;Saturday;11 a.m. - 11:50 a.m.;
Developing reusable visualization components using D3 and Backbone;Alastair Dant;Churchill Downs;Saturday;11 a.m. - 11:50 a.m.;
Getting data into Excel;<NAME>;Gulfstream/Hialeah;Saturday;11 a.m. - 11:50 a.m.;
How to edit a news app;<NAME>, <NAME>;Regency South;Saturday;11 a.m. - 11:50 a.m.;There's a lot to think about when it comes to news apps, but not all of it is coding. What story is it telling? Does it tell it consistently and in a fact-based way? Does the story it tells agree with the reporting (and if not who's got explaining to do!) What's the lede, what's the nut (yes, apps have those).
SPSS 3: Using logistic regression;<NAME>;Keeneland;Saturday;11 a.m. - 11:50 a.m.;Linear regression helps you find relationships between two or more variables, but when an outcome has only two possibilities, you need a different tool. That, my friends, is where logistic regression comes in.
Dashboards for reporting;<NAME>, <NAME>, <NAME>;Regency North;Saturday;11 a.m. - 11:50 a.m.;For newsrooms that need to cope with regularly-updated data, the ability to provide both real-time access and custom views to pinpoint newsworthy events is crucial. This panel will discuss some of the considerations when building and maintaining data dashboards, and show some examples of dashboards in action.
Painless scraping with Helium Scraper;<NAME>;Churchill Downs;Saturday;2 p.m. - 2:50 p.m.;"Helium Scraper is a reasonably low-cost ($140) solution for a lot of scraping chores, even if it&rsquo;s not the magic bullet. This demonstration will show you when it might work for your project and give examples of how it works."
Maps and charts in R: real newsroom examples;<NAME>;Gulfstream/Hialeah;Saturday;2 p.m. - 2:50 p.m.;
Mini-Boot Camp (Saturday) Team A;TBA;Seneca/Iroquois;Saturday;2 p.m. - 4:50 p.m.;*Pre-registered attendees only.
Mini-Boot Camp (Saturday) Team B;TBA;Shawnee/Cherokee;Saturday;2 p.m. - 4:50 p.m.;*Pre-registered attendees only
Python programming for the rest of us 1: Google Fusion Tables - the gateway drug;<NAME>, <NAME>;Kentucky Suite;Saturday;2 p.m. - 2:50 p.m.;"This three-part class is designed for data journalists who are comfortable with the basic tools of our craft but intimidated by the ""p-word"" and think Aron Pilhofer has signed a pact with the devil. We will cover the basics and show you how a little programming can save you hours or days of time and make you look like a genius to your boss. Requirements: a laptop, a Google sign-in and curiosity."
Infect the CMS;<NAME>, <NAME>, <NAME>;Regency North;Saturday;2 p.m. - 2:50 p.m.;"We web developers strive for rugged independence. The luckiest of us have total control over our web stacks and the design of our projects, unlike those poor sods forced to labor within the Content Management System (CMS). Therein lies the problem; being apart means being invisible unless you spread your content to the CMS and beyond. This panel will discuss some strategies and experiences for getting your app content to find readers where they are."
"Git &amp; Github: Learning to commit to version control";<NAME>;Keeneland;Saturday;2 p.m. - 2:50 p.m.;
Dodging disasters: How to avoid making errors with data;<NAME>, <NAME>, <NAME>;Regency South;Saturday;2 p.m. - 2:50 p.m.;
State of the Unions;<NAME>, <NAME>;Regency Center;Saturday;2 p.m. - 2:50 p.m.;"Labor unions may be struggling to maintain their membership, but they still play a pivotal role in the nation&rsquo;s economy and politics. Tom and <NAME> will discuss data you can use to dig into the public and private-sector unions in your region, shedding light on their finances, their membership and the ways they wield their considerable power."
Make the robots work for you - implementing PANDA in your newsroom;<NAME>, <NAME>, <NAME>, <NAME>;Churchill Downs;Saturday;3 p.m. - 3:50 p.m.;Wouldn't it be sweet if you got an email when something newsworthy happens? Wouldn't that make your job easier? Well, have we got news for you. Learn about implementing PANDA in your newsroom and automating your data chores.
Finding stories in health data;<NAME>, <NAME>, <NAME>;Regency Center;Saturday;3 p.m. - 3:50 p.m.;
Going beyond the obvious: Creative uses for data;<NAME>, <NAME>;Regency South;Saturday;3 p.m. - 3:50 p.m.;
Python programming for the rest of us 2: Basic Python;<NAME>, <NAME>;Kentucky Suite;Saturday;3 p.m. - 3:50 p.m.;"This three-part class is designed for data journalists who are comfortable with the basic tools of our craft but intimidated by the ""p-word"" and think Aron Pilhofer has signed a pact with the devil. We will cover the basics and show you how a little programming can save you hours or days of time and make you look like a genius to your boss. Requirements: a laptop, a Google sign-in and curiosity."
Mapping 1 with qGIS: Displaying data geographically;<NAME>;Keeneland;Saturday;3 p.m. - 3:50 p.m.;
Making timelines;<NAME>, <NAME>;Gulfstream/Hialeah;Saturday;3 p.m. - 3:50 p.m.;
(Way) beyond charts: Making interactive fun;<NAME>, <NAME>;Regency North;Saturday;3 p.m. - 3:50 p.m.;
Python programming for the rest of us 3: Webscraping for dummies;<NAME>, <NAME>;Kentucky Suite;Saturday;4 p.m. - 4:50 p.m.;"This three-part class is designed for data journalists who are comfortable with the basic tools of our craft but intimidated by the ""p-word"" and think Aron Pilhofer has signed a pact with the devil. We will cover the basics and show you how a little programming can save you hours or days of time and make you look like a genius to your boss. Requirements: a laptop, a Google sign-in and curiosity."
Data journalism around the globe;<NAME>, <NAME>, <NAME>, <NAME>;Regency South;Saturday;4 p.m. - 4:50 p.m.;"**Moderated by <NAME>, Kaas &amp; Mulvad"
Using CAR to hold the powerful accountable;<NAME>, <NAME>;Regency Center;Saturday;4 p.m. - 4:50 p.m.;
Campaign finance the data science way;<NAME>, Chase Davis;Regency North;Saturday;4 p.m. - 4:50 p.m.;**Moderated by Chase Davis, Hot Type Consulting
Connecting the dots with NodeXL;<NAME>;Gulfstream/Hialeah;Saturday;4 p.m. - 4:50 p.m.;
Wrangling Web data with Google docs - advanced course;<NAME>;Churchill Downs;Saturday;4 p.m. - 4:50 p.m.;Lots of people use Google Docs. But many of them don't know about the Google Apps Script language, which makes it possible to scrape data from across the web and from Google's geography, finance, machine learning and other APIs, then present and analyze the data in a Google Spreadsheet. This session will demonstrate the basics of Apps Script by building a spreadsheet that automatically imports new data from a public source every morning and sends an email when it comes across something interesting.
Mapping 2 with qGIS: Importing and selecting data by attribute;<NAME>;Keeneland;Saturday;4 p.m. - 4:50 p.m.;
CAR Conference Sales (Sunday);TBA;2nd Floor;Sunday;8:30 a.m. - 10:30 a.m.;"Stop by the IRE sales table and take a look at our merchandise. We will be selling books, including the newest title in the IRE beat book series. The large selection of titles we carry will certainly include your interests. The winners of the IRE T-shirt contest will be displayed and on sale. The sales table is also the place to get your ticket to ""A Night on the Town"" an event that is sure to be a fun time! All proceeds from your purchase help support IRE and its mission."
Mapping best practices;<NAME>, <NAME>, <NAME>;Regency Center;Sunday;9 a.m. - 9:50 a.m.;
Investigating online;<NAME>;Regency North;Sunday;9 a.m. - 9:50 a.m.;
Mini-Boot Camp (Sunday) Combined;TBA;Seneca/Iroquois;Sunday;9 a.m. - 10:50 a.m.;*Pre-registered attendees only
Intro to mapping with Fusion Tables;J<NAME>;Shawnee/Cherokee;Sunday;9 a.m. - 9:50 a.m.;
Career development roundtable;<NAME>, <NAME>, <NAME>, <NAME>;Regency Center;Sunday;10 a.m. - 10:50 a.m.;"&nbsp;"
How (not) to be a danger to yourself and others using the command line;Ted Han;Shawnee/Cherokee;Sunday;10 a.m. - 10:50 a.m.;
Finding data online;Jaimi Dowdell;Regency North;Sunday;10 a.m. - 10:50 a.m.;<commit_msg>add updated descriptions<commit_after>Title;Speaker;Place;Day;Time;Description
Breaking local stories with economic data (Sponsored by <NAME>s National Center for Business Journalism);<NAME>, <NAME>, <NAME>;Regency North;Wednesday;2 p.m. - 5 p.m.;Government data offer unparalleled opportunities to distinguish your reporting with trend stories about what's happening in your local economy. Especially this year, with the release of the every-five-year Economic Census, journalists will have a unique opportunity to track changes in their local community from 2007 - before the recession- to 2012.
CAR Conference Registration (Wednesday);TBA;2nd Floor;Wednesday;3 p.m. - 5 p.m.;Registration will be located on the 2nd floor of the Hyatt Regency Louisville.
CAR Conference Sales (Thursday);TBA;2nd Floor;Thursday;7:30 a.m. - 5 p.m.;"Stop by the IRE sales table and take a look at our merchandise. We will be selling books, including the newest title in the IRE beat book series. The large selection of titles we carry will certainly include your interests. The winners of the IRE T-shirt contest will be displayed and on sale. The sales table is also the place to get your ticket to ""A Night on the Town"" an event that is sure to be a fun time! All proceeds from your purchase help support IRE and its mission."
CAR Conference Registration (Thursday);TBA;2nd Floor;Thursday;7:30 a.m. - 5 p.m.;Registration will be located on the 2nd floor of the Hyatt Regency Louisville.
Making the best use of the conference;<NAME>, <NAME>, <NAME>;Regency Center;Thursday;8:30 a.m. - 8:50 a.m.;Welcome to the conference! IRE staff will highlight key sessions and events that you won't want to miss while in Louisville. We'll also give you a brief rundown on some of the resources IRE has to offer.
Hands-on: Rapid data publishing with Caspio (Hosted by Caspio);TBA;Shawnee/Cherokee;Thursday;9 a.m. - 10:50 a.m.;"Primarily for those new to Caspio, this class introduces attendees to the Caspio Bridge framework for rapid database publishing. &nbsp;Learn how to publish databases as interactive, searchable, and embeddable web interfaces in minutes instead of hours. &nbsp;Topics covered:"
Getting started: Digging deep with data journalism;<NAME>, <NAME>, <NAME>;Regency Center;Thursday;9 a.m. - 9:50 a.m.;Are you new to data journalism or does this happen to be your first time at a CAR conference? If so, this session will help you get on track to make sure that you get the best experience possible from the 2013 CAR Conference. We'll highlight sessions and give you tips for success during and after the conference.
Exploratory data analysis;<NAME>;Regency South;Thursday;9 a.m. - 9:50 a.m.;As journalists, we're accustomed to approaching new data with questions already in mind. This panel is about the opposite approach: using tools and techniques to help data reveal new story ideas to you. We'll talk about the value of exploratory data analysis and walk through an example of how it can help us spot trends and outliers in a new, unfamiliar dataset.
Information design and crossing the digital divide;<NAME>, <NAME>;Regency North;Thursday;9 a.m. - 9:50 a.m.;For an infographics reporter, crossing the digital divide can be like crossing the desert: you start from a green fertile place where your tools are familiar and your work is an articulate representation of your ideas, but you quickly find yourself struggling to make basic charts in an strange and unforgiving interactive landscape. If you put in the time, you can work as well online as you do in print. But how do you get from Illustrator and Excel to Javascript, D3 and Raphael? And how do you build those skills in the course of your normal workdays and deadlines?
NewsCamp:: Data science for nerdy journalists;<NAME>;Keeneland;Thursday;9 a.m. - 4:50 p.m.;"This day-long, hands-on class taught by <NAME>, author of theggplot2 R plug-in, Assistant Professor of Statistics at Rice University, and developer at RStudio. &nbsp;"
My friend FRED: Using Fed data tools to add context to stories;<NAME>;<NAME>;Thursday;9 a.m. - 9:50 a.m.;An introduction to Federal Reserve Economic Data (FRED), the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis' signature economics database, with easy directions for journalists to tap into it to add context to their stories related to the economy. FRED contains more than 60,000 frequently updated sets of data, ranging from consumer price indexes to regional (metropolitan statistical area) housing charts and unemployment rates. It allows users to automatically compare the data over varying periods of time in customizable charts, and then easily incorporate those charts into print or web publications.
Tableau Public for beginners (Hosted by Tableau Public);<NAME>, <NAME>;Seneca/Iroquois;Thursday;9 a.m. - 11:50 a.m.;"Learn how to create beautiful, interactive data visualizations on short deadlines. &nbsp;No programming required. &nbsp;You'll learn everything you need to build data visualizations and publish them to your website just like a video. &nbsp;We'll teach you how to:"
Python mini-bootcamp;TBA;Kentucky Suite;Thursday;9 a.m. - 4:50 p.m.;"This mini-bootcamp introduces Python as a general purpose tool for data wrangling and analysis. &nbsp;The daylong class will introduce language basics and useful libraries in the course of a typical data project: sraping data from the Web, inserting it in a database and analyzing the results. Attendees are expected to have a familiarity with databases and SQL. This class will take place all day Thursday. There is limited seating and an additional fee to attend."
Waste investigations for any community;<NAME>, <NAME>, <NAME>, <NAME>;Regency Center;Thursday;10 a.m. - 10:50 a.m.;**Moderated by Wendell Cochran, Investigative Reporting Workshop
Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future;<NAME>;Regency North;Thursday;10 a.m. - 10:50 a.m.;
Visualizing networks and connections;<NAME>, <NAME>;Regency South;Thursday;10 a.m. - 10:50 a.m.;This session will cover the basic concepts of network analysis and demonstrate ways it can be used in reporting. Topics will include gathering structured data on relationships, analyzing that data and visualizing the connections between people and organizations.
Use FOIA Machine to prepare, send and track your public records requests;<NAME>, <NAME>, <NAME>, <NAME>;Churchill Downs;Thursday;10 a.m. - 10:50 a.m.;FOIA Machine aids journalists and citizens in accessing important government documents around the world that are covered by freedom of information laws. Speakers will demonstrate how journalists can use the platform in regular work and make the FOIA process more successful and organized.
Down and dirty with the DocumentCloud API;Ted Han;Churchill Downs;Thursday;11 a.m. - 11:50 a.m.;Journalists use DocumentCloud to turn documents into data, but did you know you can interact with your documents through DocumentCloud's API? We'll show you how other journalists use DocumentCloud's API and demonstrate how you too can update or access your documents' data with some rudimentary scripting.
The data-driven story (Part 1) Conceiving and launching;<NAME>, <NAME>, <NAME>;Regency Center;Thursday;11 a.m. - 11:50 a.m.;*Moderated by <NAME>, University of Illinois
Demo: New Map Mashup Wizard (Hosted by Caspio);TBA;Shawnee/Cherokee;Thursday;11 a.m. - 11:50 a.m.;"Caspio's new Map Mashup Wizard (v7) automates Google map intergration in a single wizard and now includes icons and interactive filtering. &nbsp;Topics covered:"
Web tools for investigators;<NAME>, <NAME>;Regency South;Thursday;11 a.m. - 11:50 a.m.;If you're like most journalists, the Web has become one of your favorite places to go for backgrounding, digging and tip seeking. Imagine how much is out there that you haven't heard about. With a careful strategy and knowing where to look you can make your time online more effective and efficient. This session will help you do all these things and point you to the latest sites you never knew you couldn't live without.
Monetizing your work;<NAME>, <NAME>, <NAME>, <NAME>, <NAME>;Regency North;Thursday;11 a.m. - 11:50 a.m.;Journalists have created some amazing tools that get data, documents and other vital information to their audiences, but in many cases we haven't figured out how to make them sustainable. We'll examine the problem and talk about how to begin trying to solve it.
Demo: Sneak peek of Caspio Bridge 8.0 Beta (Hosted by Caspio);TBA;Shawnee/Cherokee;Thursday;noon - 12:30 p.m.;"
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Hands-on: Build apps with user generated data (Hosted by Caspio);TBA;Shawnee/Cherokee;Thursday;2 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.;"For those already familiar with Caspio, this class takes your applications to the next level utilizing user-generated data. &nbsp;Topics covered:&nbsp;"
Mobile + DataViz: Friends or frenemies?;<NAME>, <NAME>;Regency North;Thursday;2 p.m. - 2:50 p.m.;Mobile and responsive web design are changing the way stories are told. Complicated data visualizations, which used to be planned for the desktop, now need to be planned so they can work for mobile, tablets, and desktops. Different devices mean different user-experiences for visualizations, which changes how information is consumed. We'll show some samples of successful and not-so successful data visualizations on a responsively-designed news site. We'll talk about workflow, best practices and user-interface patterns that set you up for success.
Tableau Public for Pros (Hosted by Tableau Public);<NAME>, <NAME>;Seneca/Iroquois;Thursday;2 p.m. - 5 p.m.;"Take your data visualization skills to the next level. &nbsp;In this class we'll push Tableau's capabilities further to create more complex visualizations. &nbsp;You'll learn how to:&nbsp;"
The data-driven story (Part 2) Putting the package together;<NAME>, <NAME>;Regency Center;Thursday;2 p.m. - 2:50 p.m.;These three sessions will show how to take a data driven story from start to finish and includes long-time practitioners as speakers. Using a specific U.S. federal database the team of journalists will cover how to check a database for its flaws and omissions, analyze it and find stories out of it, add reporting and precision editing for the stories, and work to visualize the information and data not only for presentation, but also to elicit more tips and ideas from the public.
Bringing Excel to the Web with Excel 2013 and SkyDrive;<NAME>;<NAME>;Thursday;2 p.m. - 2:50 p.m.;This talk will cover how to use Excel Interactive View and Excel embedding to make your articles shine, keep people engaged with your site, with minimal effort and for free. The talk will also be showing off some of the latest features of Excel 2013 that make data analysis a snap.
Dig deeper with social tools (Sponsored by Kiplinger Program in Public Affairs Journalism/Ohio State University);<NAME>, <NAME>;Regency South;Thursday;2 p.m. - 2:50 p.m.;Learn new tricks and tactics with social media for backgrounding people and companies, finding experts and other sources, and using the latest geo-location tools for breaking news coverage. You'll discover new ways of using Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and mobile apps for reporting that give you a leg up on the competition.
Leveling up (with) your community;<NAME>, <NAME>;Regency South;Thursday;3 p.m. - 3:50 p.m.;The NICAR community has pioneered a path through the wilderness between journalism and technology. But having built a community and civilized the wilderness, it's worth talking how we continue to improve our skills as well as paving the path for others.
Practical machine learning: Tips, tricks and real-world examples for using machine learning in the newsroom;<NAME>, <NAME>;Regency North;Thursday;3 p.m. - 3:50 p.m.;"Machine learning and predictive modeling are some of the hottest skills in Silicon Valley. In this panel, we'll teach you how to apply them in the newsroom. Includes examples from real-world projects, including building intelligent regular expressions with maximum entropy models; using Bayesian classifiers to filter documents; and linear and logistic regression."
The data-driven story (Part 3) Bulletproofing and presentation;<NAME>, <NAME>, <NAME>;Regency Center;Thursday;3 p.m. - 3:50 p.m.;*Moderated by Brant Houston, University of Illinois
Wrangling Web data with Google docs - beginner course;<NAME>, <NAME>;<NAME>;Thursday;3 p.m. - 3:50 p.m.;Review methods for importing web data into the Google Docs platform. Learn to fetch external web data, create scripts to schedule fetches in batches and process the data. No programming skills required. Those familiar with the Microsoft Excel application will be familiar with many of the concepts. Experienced programmers can learn to develop web application proofs of concept, prototyping and fetching through API.
Hone your Fusion Tables training skills;<NAME>;Regency Center;Thursday;4 p.m. - 7 p.m.;Format: 3-hr workshop plus optional dinner gathering. Drinks and dessert will be provided during workshop.
How government is winning the war about releasing data;<NAME>, <NAME>, <NAME>, <NAME>;Regency South;Thursday;4 p.m. - 4:50 p.m.;Open government initiatives have done little to open government up to scrutiny, and officials are becoming more restrictive than ever. How can journalists fight back against unnecessary secrecy and data redactions? A data journalist, the curator of open data in Missouri and a public records attorney will discuss the troubling trends and ways they can be overcome.
"No complaints: Navigating the New American Fact Finder; improvements and updates";<NAME>;<NAME>;Thursday;4 p.m. - 4:50 p.m.;The Census Bureau serves as the leading source of quality data about the nation's people and economy. Media outlets often use this data to support their news stories and articles. The American FactFinder (AFF) provides access to this data which is compiled from several censuses and surveys. This session will demonstrate how to use the tool and the improvements that are being made to make this data tool better and more user-friendly.
Demo: Sneak peek of Caspio Bridge 8.0 Beta  (Hosted by Caspio);TBA;Shawnee/Cherokee;Thursday;5 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.;Get an exclusive preview of the latest features and redesigned user interface coming up in Caspio Bridge 8.0. With a new modern look and feel, this is our most monumental product release to date.
A Night on the Town (Social Event);TBA;See printed schedule for room information;Thursday;6:30 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.;"Join your fellow CAR colleagues Thursday at Sports and Social Club for a night of competitive bowling and see which team wins the night's best score. &nbsp;Beginning at 6:30 p.m., you can grab a drink and socialize or form a team and bowl."
CAR Conference Registration (Friday);TBA;2nd Floor;Friday;8 a.m. - 5 p.m.;Registration will be located on the 2nd floor of the Hyatt Regency Louisville.
CAR Conference Sales (Friday);TBA;2nd Floor;Friday;8 a.m. - 5 p.m.;"Stop by the IRE sales table and take a look at our merchandise. We will be selling books, including the newest title in the IRE beat book series. The large selection of titles we carry will certainly include your interests. The winners of the IRE T-shirt contest will be displayed and on sale. The sales table is also the place to get your ticket to ""A Night on the Town"" an event that is sure to be a fun time! All proceeds from your purchase help support IRE and its mission."
Networking breakfast for CAR mentoring program participants (Sponsored by Scripps Howard Foundation);TBA;Pimlico;Friday;8 a.m. - 8:45 a.m.;"Coffee and pastries will be served. &nbsp;This is an invitation-only event."
Bringing local Geodata to journalism: Exploring Floating Sheep and the DOLLY (Data on Local Life and You) Project;<NAME>, <NAME>;Churchill Downs;Friday;9 a.m. - 9:50 a.m.;The academic bloggers behind FloatingSheep.org offer an overview of DOLLY: an online platform for easily exploring and visualizing the local aspect of geographic 'big' data like Twitter. We will walk through the functionality of the app as well as a number of practical examples of how DOLLY can be used to explore news events. We are still working through how we could make this academic resource more widely available and interested in working with a few members of the IRE community to apply DOLLY's potential to journalism.
Integrity checks and simple data cleaning;<NAME>;Gulfstream/Hialeah;Friday;9 a.m. - 9:50 a.m.;
Those dastardly PDFs;<NAME>, <NAME>;Regency North;Friday;9 a.m. - 9:50 a.m.;So much data comes to us in .pdf form or, worse, on paper that we then need to scan. We'll offer tips, tricks and best practices to quickly crack open those dastardly files and get the data in a usable format. We'll look at some of classic methods of breaking down PDFs and we'll introduce a tool that uses XML to splice PDFs and turn them into CSVs.
Excel 1;<NAME>;Shawnee/Cherokee;Friday;9 a.m. - 9:50 a.m.;Performing simple calculations and sorting.
Year in CAR;<NAME>, <NAME>;Regency Center;Friday;9 a.m. - 9:50 a.m.;What were the big stories of the year? What were the most creative uses of data analysis? See what your colleagues have been up to and pick up some story ideas at the same time.
Mapping 1: Displaying data geographically;<NAME>, <NAME>;Keeneland;Friday;9 a.m. - 9:50 a.m.;Displaying data geographically with ArcGIS.
Build your first News App with Django (Friday);TBA;Seneca/Iroquois;Friday;9 a.m. - 11:50 a.m.;"This mini-boot camp will walk you through the process of taking a dataset from raw data and turning it into a searchable online database using the Python language and the Django Web framework. &nbsp;Only 18 seats are available and there is an additional $70 registration fee. &nbsp;Pre-registrations are accepted on a first-come, first-served basis. &nbsp;Prospective attendees must register and fill out an application for this hands-on camp. &nbsp;Please "
Intro to SQLite;<NAME>;Kentucky Suite;Friday;9 a.m. - 9:50 a.m.;Are you tired of standing on the sidelines while everyone else has all the fun with database queries? Tired of hoping that Access is doing what you think it's doing when you point and click? Wouldn't you rather just tell your database manager what slice of the data you want? Join us for a hassle free entry to the world of SQL, (Structured Query Language), the lingua franca of relational databases. It's surprisingly simple and surprisingly powerful -- and it works in just about any database you can name.
Legal issues, access and big data;<NAME>, <NAME>, Esq., <NAME>;Regency South;Friday;9 a.m. - 9:50 a.m.;
The OpenElections Project: Certified election results. For everyone.;<NAME>, <NAME>;<NAME>;Friday;10 a.m. - 10:50 a.m.;We'll introduce our project to create the first comprehensive, standardized set of federal election data. This will include a demo of how to access data from the project, and how potential contributors can get involved.
Excel 2;<NAME>;Shawnee/Cherokee;Friday;10 a.m. - 10:50 a.m.;Calculating ratios and rates.
Mapping 2: Importing and selecting data by attribute;<NAME>, <NAME>;Keeneland;Friday;10 a.m. - 10:50 a.m.;Displaying data geographically with ArcGIS.
Introduction to text editors;<NAME>, <NAME>;Gulfstream/Hialeah;Friday;10 a.m. - 10:50 a.m.;Learn how to wield powerful (and free) text editors in your quest for clean, useable data. We'll cover some of the text editors available for different operating systems and the basic tasks they can accomplish.
Data viz on a shoestring;<NAME>, <NAME>;Regency South;Friday;10 a.m. - 10:50 a.m.;If you've got the time but don't have the money, this session is for you. Data cleaning, mapping, charts and more - we've got 30+ free/cheap tools for data visualization and analysis. Point and clickers and coders alike will enjoy this opportunity to reacquaint themselves with the ever-evolving toolbox of the digital journalist.
NewsCamp::Data science for the perplexed. For everyone;<NAME>;Regency North;Friday;10 a.m. - 10:50 a.m.;Are you perplexed, confused and bamboozled by data science? Do you feel disappointed to be a journalist and not a mighty data scientist, conqueror of databases and slayer of statistics? Do you worry about drowning in the data deluge, or falling into a data mine? Fear no more, because if you attend this session you'll learn what data science is (or at least my take on the term), what the high-level tools data scientists apply to their problems, and what skills data scientists need to learn from journalists. You don't need to know anything about data science to enjoy this session, but if you do, you will leave with some thoughts provoked.
Intro to programing in Ruby;Al Shaw;Kentucky Suite;Friday;10 a.m. - 10:50 a.m.;Ruby and the Rails web framework are used by journalists around the world to build interactives, and process and analyze data. Get familiar with programming basics in Ruby with this hands-on session.
Inspect this;<NAME>, <NAME>;Regency Center;Friday;10 a.m. - 10:50 a.m.;Uncover the gold mine of inspection data. Get ideas and techniques on how to track inspectors at each level of government. Walk away with story ideas to impress your boss at home.
Is 911 a joke in your town?;<NAME>, <NAME>;Regency Center;Friday;11 a.m. - 11:50 a.m.;Get up and get down with our panel to go home with a game plan to find out if your local public safety departments are arriving. We'll break down all the jargon and provide a shake-and-bake recipe for analyzing 911 response times at any American fire department or EMS shop.
CAR on the beat;<NAME>, <NAME>;Regency South;Friday;11 a.m. - 11:50 a.m.;You don't have to be a dedicated data-hacker to do CAR stories. Stop by to learn tips and tricks to find and turn around CAR stories while working your beat.
Excel 3;<NAME>;Shawnee/Cherokee;Friday;11 a.m. - 11:50 a.m.;Learn pivot tables, filtering and more.
Covert reporting using technology to cover your tracks;<NAME>, <NAME>;Regency North;Friday;11 a.m. - 11:50 a.m.;This session will show you various tools that anyone can use to communicate securely in today's world, including (but not limited to) covert phone calls, disposable email addresses, and hidden web surfing. We'll also go over a few situations where this could be useful for you, the journalist -- reaching out to sources without revealing yourself too much, providing avenues for whistleblowers to contact you and other situations.
Intro to Javascript the right way;<NAME>, <NAME>;Kentucky Suite;Friday;11 a.m. - 11:50 a.m.;
Data cleaning with text editors;<NAME>, <NAME>;Gulfstream/Hialeah;Friday;11 a.m. - 11:50 a.m.;Learn how to make the most of the Find and Replace functions in text editors to clean up messy text files. We'll show you some tools (such as basic regular expressions) to help you find problems and whip your data into shape.
Smarter interactive Web projects with Google Spreadsheets and Tabletop.js;Tasneem Raja;Churchill Downs;Friday;11 a.m. - 11:50 a.m.;Death to tediously hand-crafted flat files! This killer combo offers a way to suck structured data out of Google Spreadsheets and plug it into whatever program/platform/framework you'd like, via simple javascript syntax. Ergo, the data is easily shared with every reporter, editor, fact-checker, copy editor, etc. in your newsroom, and all updates are real time.
Mapping 3: Geocoding to merge databases with addresses into maps;<NAME>, <NAME>;Keeneland;Friday;11 a.m. - 11:50 a.m.;Learn pivot tables, filtering and more.
Media Lawyers <NAME>;<NAME>, <NAME>, <NAME>, Esq.;Regency South;Friday;noon - 1:45 p.m.;"Here's your chance for informal Q&amp;A about legal issues. Bring your ""hypotheticals"" and your own lunch. &nbsp;Beverages and dessert will be provided."
Mapping as a storytelling platform: Esri Story Maps and ArcGIS Online;<NAME>;<NAME>;Friday;2 p.m. - 2:50 p.m.;Esri experts offer a 50-minute workshop to provide insight into how the company's new ArcGIS Online product can be maximized as a platform to enhance storytelling. Esri Story Maps and other app development tools that require no programming expertise are now available to make digital and print map generation more effective and easier to create.
Mini-Boot Camp (Friday) Team A;TBA;Seneca/Iroquois;Friday;2 p.m. - 4:50 p.m.;"Kickstart your data skills with IRE's mini boot camp. &nbsp;This series of hands-on classes will introduce you to spreadsheets and databases with IRE's proven techniques. &nbsp;IRE's current and past trainers will walk you through sorting, calculating and interviewing data. &nbsp;You'll come away with a solid base for using data analysis in your own newsroom. &nbsp;In addition, we'll provide you with our boot camp materials to help keep you on track long after you leave the conference. &nbsp;Only 36 seats are available and there is an additional $50 registration fee. &nbsp;Pre-registrations are accepted on a first-come, first-served basis. &nbsp;Registration can be done online when you register for the conference. &nbsp;Sessions will be held Friday and Saturday afternoon and Sunday morning. &nbsp;"
"D3? R? Tableau? What&#39;s right for you?";<NAME>, <NAME>;Regency North;Friday;2 p.m. - 2:50 p.m.;When it comes to visualizing data, you know you want to be nimble in something. But what should that something be? A look - with examples - at some of the trade-offs between using a tool like Tableau versus a programming approach like D3.
Excel magic: Advanced functions for data cleaning and more;<NAME>;Keeneland;Friday;2 p.m. - 2:50 p.m.;String functions, IF statements and other powerful tools for cleaning, rearranging and analyzing data that you'll wish you had learned earlier. Prerequisite: comfortable working in Excel.
Beyond the scoreboard: Using data to investigate sports;<NAME>, <NAME>;Regency Center;Friday;2 p.m. - 2:50 p.m.;See some data-driven stories and dive into stats and analytics. We will discuss both private and public data sources and unique challenges in compiling sports data.
Twitter mechanics, strategy and apps;<NAME>;Gulfstream/Hialeah;Friday;2 p.m. - 2:50 p.m.;"Twitter mechanics, strategy and apps; Learn the do's and don'ts of tweeting; master Twitter lists; and explore apps of particular use in news gathering and reporting."
Getting started with open-source database manager MySQL;<NAME>;Kentucky Suite;Friday;2 p.m. - 2:50 p.m.;Hitting a wall with Access when it comes to big data? It may be time to make the leap to the world's most popular (and free) database manager. This session will fill you in on everything you need to know.
Data on the fly: Real-time news coverage;<NAME>, <NAME>;Regency South;Friday;2 p.m. - 2:50 p.m.;Learn how professionals combined old and new techniques when covering events from Election Day to Hurricane Sandy. We'll talk in detail about the elements and some of the code. But you needn't be a programmer to participate. We hope to help you consider a few new ideas and approaches next time you need to move fast.
Mini-Boot Camp (Friday) Team B;TBA;Shawnee/Cherokee;Friday;2 p.m. - 4:50 p.m.;*Pre-registered attendees only
From CAR to news apps and back again;<NAME>, <NAME>, <NAME>, <NAME>, <NAME>, <NAME>, <NAME>;Regency North;Friday;3 p.m. - 3:50 p.m.;*Moderated by <NAME>, The Associated Press
Searching the global deep web for better data and information;<NAME>;Regency South;Friday;3 p.m. - 3:50 p.m.;As a competitive-intelligence professional, I use Google and a wide variety of other Web-based tools to find very specific pieces of information, answer critical questions, and dig out hard to find information on companies. Business journalists can use many of these same techniques to go beyond Google and get much more out of the Web in far less time when researching companies and individuals around the globe. In this session, you'll fill your toolbox with Web tools for your research.
Practical document mining with DocumentCloud and overview;<NAME>, <NAME>;Kentucky Suite;Friday;3 p.m. - 3:50 p.m.;Tame that stack of documents! In this workshop we'll walk you through the analysis of a large set of text documents (thousands of pages) using two free tools: DocumentCloud and Overview. You'll learn how to upload, OCR, search, visualize, cluster, tag, annotate, and publish your documents.
How to serve mad traffic;<NAME>, <NAME>, <NAME>;<NAME>;Friday;3 p.m. - 3:50 p.m.;Or, how to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune. This session is an advanced class on hosting very high-volume news apps using Amazon's cloud infrastructure. Think election night, the thundering herd, the million horde, etc. We'll cover Varnish and CloudFront caching, static file bake-out using S3, and go over what's likely to break and how to be ready for it. Prerequisites: Familiarity with Amazon EC2 and the linux command line.
Disasters: Preparing for and digging in after the storm;<NAME>, <NAME>;Regency Center;Friday;3 p.m. - 3:50 p.m.;Find out how data can (and should) bolster your post-disaster reporting. We'll discuss important datasets and highlight work done after disasters across the country.
Using OpenRefine to clean and explore dirty data;<NAME>;Keeneland;Friday;3 p.m. - 3:50 p.m.;Learn to take filthy, stinking, messy data from an unhelpful government agency and transform it into something useful with the help of OpenRefine. If you often have to scrub and standardize huge spreadsheets, but you haven't delved into regular expressions, this program will change your life.
Amazon cloud basics;<NAME>;Gulfstream/Hialeah;Friday;3 p.m. - 3:50 p.m.;Cloud servers are an amazingly flexible way to use computing resources. Servers and test benches used to take weeks to order and configure, but thanks to the cloud, you can build up arbitrarily complex farms of computers to do your bidding in a few minutes, from serving a dynamic news app to crunching through a data set to trying out a new technology on the cheap. This course will help you understand the thicket of acronyms and programs that make up Amazon's AWS system and will get you started building servers.
Lightning Talks;<NAME>;Regency Center;Friday;4 p.m. - 4:50 p.m.;Sometimes you don't need 45 minutes to explain a useful technique or interesting resource. Join your colleagues for a session of short (5-minute) talks about doing CAR, Web development or other related topics. Anyone can suggest an idea, and the most popular talks will be given at this session. We'll provide a computer with Internet access and a projector, and the rest is up to you.
Finding the bad guys: Tricks for joining lists of people;<NAME>, <NAME>;<NAME>;Friday;4 p.m. - 4:50 p.m.;Identifying people who appear in two databases can give an investigation sweep and take it to the next level: think about matching camp operators and sex offenders, or felons and almost anything. But such joins are difficult and time-consuming, particularly if you have names but not dates of birth. Learn techniques to sidestep those issues by combining your favorite database software with simple scripting and some old-fashioned reporting. By the end of the session, you'll know how to match messy addresses and how to highlight promising hits based on name alone -- exactly what you need to find some bad guys and beef-up your next project.
Stats in Excel;<NAME>;Keeneland;Friday;4 p.m. - 4:50 p.m.;You don't need a fancy pants program to compute several different sorts of statistics. In this session, you'll learn how to compute basic descriptive statistics in Excel. You'll also learn how to run correlations and regressions in Excel.
Computer Science 101: How to speak the language of the people who speak computer;<NAME>, <NAME>-Weyrauch;Regency South;Friday;4 p.m. - 4:50 p.m.;This session will help you navigate the sea of terms and concepts in computer science. We'll demystify things like SQL, servers, object oriented programming, arrays, etc. We'll give it to you straight and help you understand without the icky details. We'll talk about when you should use different tools and how hard they are to learn. No question is too basic to ask.
Philip Meyer Award Reception (co-sponsored by Northwestern University Knight Lab);TBA;Regency North;Friday;5:15 p.m. - 6:30 p.m.;"Join fellow CAR attendees for the presentation of the Philip Meyer Journalism Awards at a reception Friday night with light hor d' oeuvres and a cash bar beginning at 5:15 p.m. in Regency North. &nbsp;Thanks to "
CAR Focus Group;<NAME>;<NAME>;Saturday;8:15 a.m. - 8:45 a.m.;Please join IRE staff over a cup of coffee to discuss what attracted you to the conference and what you'd like to see in future years.
CAR Conference Sales (Saturday);TBA;2nd Floor;Saturday;8:30 a.m. - 5 p.m.;"Stop by the IRE sales table and take a look at our merchandise. We will be selling books, including the newest title in the IRE beat book series. The large selection of titles we carry will certainly include your interests. The winners of the IRE T-shirt contest will be displayed and on sale. The sales table is also the place to get your ticket to ""A Night on the Town"" an event that is sure to be a fun time! All proceeds from your purchase help support IRE and its mission."
CAR Conference Registration (Saturday);TBA;2nd Floor;Saturday;8:30 a.m. - 5 p.m.;Registration will be located on the 2nd floor of the Hyatt Regency Louisville.
Access 1;<NAME>;Shawnee/Cherokee;Saturday;9 a.m. - 9:50 a.m.;"An introduction to Microsoft Access using SQL. &nbsp;Learn to interview your data by selecting, sorting and filtering."
SPSS 1: Introduction to SPSS;Ken McCall;Keeneland;Saturday;9 a.m. - 9:50 a.m.;Statisticians need to really understand their data (and so do you!) before they began running analyses. As a result, statistical software packages such as SPSS have many powerful tools to summarize your data. You're going to love them. We'll take a look at the structure of some Home Mortgage data, do data transformations and run crosstabs with Chi Square significance tests to look at racial discrimination in home lending. Familiarity with Excel and some database software is recommended because we've got a *lot* of ground to cover in this hour.
Making maps with Fusion Tables;<NAME>;Gulfstream/Hialeah;Saturday;9 a.m. - 9:50 a.m.;"<!--[if gte mso 9]&gt;&lt;xml&gt; &lt;o:DocumentProperties&gt; &lt;o:Revision&gt;0&lt;/o:Revision&gt; &lt;o:TotalTime&gt;0&lt;/o:TotalTime&gt; &lt;o:Pages&gt;1&lt;/o:Pages&gt; &lt;o:Words&gt;44&lt;/o:Words&gt; &lt;o:Characters&gt;256&lt;/o:Characters&gt; &lt;o:Company&gt;University of Missouri&lt;/o:Company&gt; &lt;o:Lines&gt;2&lt;/o:Lines&gt; &lt;o:Paragraphs&gt;1&lt;/o:Paragraphs&gt; &lt;o:CharactersWithSpaces&gt;299&lt;/o:CharactersWithSpaces&gt; &lt;o:Version&gt;14.0&lt;/o:Version&gt; &lt;/o:DocumentProperties&gt; &lt;o:OfficeDocumentSettings&gt; &lt;o:RelyOnVML  /&gt; &lt;o:AllowPNG  /&gt; &lt;/o:OfficeDocumentSettings&gt; &lt;/xml&gt;&lt;![endif]-->"
How can we get the widest impact out of technology projects?;<NAME>, <NAME>, <NAME>;Regency North;Saturday;9 a.m. - 9:50 a.m.;*Moderated by <NAME>, Medill School of Journalism, Northwestern University
Building data-driven beats;<NAME>, <NAME>, <NAME>;Regency South;Saturday;9 a.m. - 9:50 a.m.;How can the tools and techniques used in data journalism be applied to the day-to-day demands of beat reporting? What challenges do newsrooms face reorganizing and adding structure to beats? We'll share our experiences building sites like Homicide Watch DC and PolitiFact, and look at examples of other projects that add structure and data to daily beat reporting.
Build your first News App with Django (Saturday);TBA;Seneca/Iroquois;Saturday;9 a.m. - 11:50 a.m.;*Pre-registered attendees only
Fundamentals of programming in Python;<NAME>;Kentucky Suite;Saturday;9 a.m. - 9:50 a.m.;A crash course in basic programming that will walk you through the process of writing your first web scrape.
Discovery, validation, publication: How to be ready for your social media Sandy;<NAME>;<NAME>;Saturday;9 a.m. - 9:50 a.m.;<NAME> will use examples from Hurricane Sandy and other news events to show you how to find photos and information on social media and evaluate their authenticity.
The great divide: Investigating income inequality;<NAME>, <NAME>, <NAME>;Regency Center;Saturday;9 a.m. - 9:50 a.m.;"Income inequality zoomed into the headlines with the Occupy movement and the 2012 presidential campaign, but most coverage was more about heat than light. Talk of an ""income gap"" ""or the 99%"" obscures a complicated reality and ignores most of the story - trends in the middle class. Income inequality is growing in many places, shrinking in others. Its pace and texture vary. Some causes are global and national, some are local. Come learn better ways to cover a complex story, including how journalists did recent stories and data tools you can use to analyze local trends."
SPSS 2: Basic linear regression;<NAME>;Keeneland;Saturday;10 a.m. - 10:50 a.m.;
Beyond mapping: Data analysis using Fusion Tables;<NAME>, <NAME>;Gulfstream/Hialeah;Saturday;10 a.m. - 10:50 a.m.;Google Fusion Tables is known for its easy-to-use mapping interface, but it's also a powerful and free database manager for reporters who don't have access to software or haven't yet mastered SQL syntax. Learn to use Fusion Tables to aggregate and query your data - and explore new features that have recently extended the tool's capabilities.
Prying it loose: Data negotiation and acquisition;<NAME>, <NAME>;Regency South;Saturday;10 a.m. - 10:50 a.m.;Getting any record can be tough, but wrangling data can introduce even more challenges. We'll give you some tools and tips for getting data out of government agencies, no matter how difficult, and whether or not it's digitized. We'll look at how bureaucracies and a dearth of data can be surmounted by partnerships and clever programs to generate compelling services. And we'll look at case studies including the acquisition of data for a real-time traffic monitoring system in the Philippines.(interaksyon.com/tnav).
Access 2;<NAME>as;Shawnee/Cherokee;Saturday;10 a.m. - 10:50 a.m.;An overview of summarizing databases with counting and summing using SQL in Microsoft Access.
Dispatch: Secure, authenticated, instant mobile publishing;<NAME>, <NAME>, <NAME>, <NAME>;<NAME>;Saturday;10 a.m. - 10:50 a.m.;Dispatch is a unique publishing tool that allows journalists working in conflict areas to publish their work and communicate with sources instantly and securely. Using a unique, identity-based encryption scheme, Dispatch helps separate your published work from your real identity, while still giving your readers confidence that the material you post really came from you. And, while it publishes to the internet, Dispatch helps make sure your work gets out even when the internet is down, through direct, device-to-device sharing that publishes to the web as soon as connectivity is restored.
"Fundamentals of programming in Python (cont&#39;d)";<NAME>;Kentucky Suite;Saturday;10 a.m. - 10:50 a.m.;A crash course in basic programming that will walk you through the process of writing your first web scrape.
The one-query story: Quick hits for your newsroom;<NAME>, <NAME>, <NAME>;Regency Center;Saturday;10 a.m. - 10:50 a.m.;Amaze your editors and wow your readers with these quick-hit data story ideas. Learn techniques on how to look for the short-form watchdog and how to juggle it all. Afflict the comfortable by fact-checking their statements, find expert sources and use spreadsheets to inform your next project.
Inside baseball: What data journalism can learn from sports;<NAME>, <NAME>, <NAME>;Regency North;Saturday;10 a.m. - 10:50 a.m.;"This panel will identify areas for data journalism exploration by examining the current state-of-the-art baseball data analysis. Sports are the original form of data journalism -- box scores predate open government movements by about a century. And <NAME>'s ""Baseball Hacks"" trained newbie Web CAR reporters how to scrape and analyze data sets using Perl and MySQL. Finally, sports analytics are a leading indicator for other kinds of analysis. Sensors, economic analysis, leverage are all de rigeur in baseball but still up-and-coming in data journalism. We'll take the concepts being used to analyze baseball, football, soccer and apply them to standard data journalism chores. A good example of this is leverage -- in baseball, an analyst attempts to find those situations in which a player had the greatest opportunity to change the outcome of a game. In data journalism, we might use a similar tool to analyze critical paths to an election win for a candidate or put together a network graph for bundled contributions to PACs."
Access 3;<NAME>;Shawnee/Cherokee;Saturday;11 a.m. - 11:50 a.m.;Learn how to join tables, matching information from one file to another, using SQL in Microsoft Access.
Developing reusable visualization components using D3 and Backbone;<NAME>;Churchill Downs;Saturday;11 a.m. - 11:50 a.m.;This session will step through a process for creating components for standards-based Web content, focusing in particular on the creation of common building blocks for data visualization in JavaScript. D3 is an increasingly popular choice for developing visual content and we will look at how items ranging from simple bar charts to custom graphics can be packaged up for easy reuse. Backbone is a widely used toolkit for creating browser-based applications and we will examine how its models and views can play a role in the creation of components. Consideration will be given to combination, customization and the power of reuse versus the perils of over-generalization.
Scraping with Node.js;Al Shaw;Kentucky Suite;Saturday;11 a.m. - 11:50 a.m.;
How to edit a news app;<NAME>, <NAME>;Regency South;Saturday;11 a.m. - 11:50 a.m.;There's a lot to think about when it comes to news apps, but not all of it is coding. What story is it telling? Does it tell it consistently and in a fact-based way? Does the story it tells agree with the reporting (and if not who's got explaining to do!) What's the lede, what's the nut (yes, apps have those).
Getting data into Excel;<NAME>;Gulfstream/Hialeah;Saturday;11 a.m. - 11:50 a.m.;Don't let hard-to-use data ruin your day. Learn how to import a variety of formats (such as text files, HTML tables, PDFs) into Excel.
Dashboards for reporting;<NAME>, <NAME>, <NAME>;Regency North;Saturday;11 a.m. - 11:50 a.m.;For newsrooms that need to cope with regularly-updated data, the ability to provide both real-time access and custom views to pinpoint newsworthy events is crucial. This panel will discuss some of the considerations when building and maintaining data dashboards, and show some examples of dashboards in action.
SPSS 3: Using logistic regression;<NAME>;Keeneland;Saturday;11 a.m. - 11:50 a.m.;Linear regression helps you find relationships between two or more variables, but when an outcome has only two possibilities, you need a different tool. That, my friends, is where logistic regression comes in.
Data tactics for the well-rounded business reporter;<NAME>, <NAME>;Regency Center;Saturday;11 a.m. - 11:50 a.m.;Business is all about numbers and data. In this session, you will get tips for finding and using data to beef up your stories about business and economics. No heavy lifting here, but it would be useful to have some experience with spreadsheets.
Mini-Boot Camp (Saturday) Team A;TBA;Seneca/Iroquois;Saturday;2 p.m. - 4:50 p.m.;*Pre-registered attendees only.
Dodging disasters: How to avoid making errors with data;<NAME>, <NAME>, <NAME>;Regency South;Saturday;2 p.m. - 2:50 p.m.;We'll cover common assumptions and mistakes in data-driven stories, from misunderstanding data to writing bad SQL. Learn techniques for checking your work and creating a safety net to help you sleep at night.
Maps and charts in R: real newsroom examples;<NAME>;Gulfstream/Hialeah;Saturday;2 p.m. - 2:50 p.m.;Using R, we will make 117 drought maps that appeared in the New York Times last summer, and explore other representations of the same data. In doing so, we will hopefully learn why we might (or might not) want to 'sketch with data' in R.
Python programming for the rest of us 1: Google Fusion Tables - the gateway drug;<NAME>, <NAME>;Kentucky Suite;Saturday;2 p.m. - 2:50 p.m.;"This three-part class is designed for data journalists who are comfortable with the basic tools of our craft but intimidated by the ""p-word"" and think Aron Pilhofer has signed a pact with the devil. We will cover the basics and show you how a little programming can save you hours or days of time and make you look like a genius to your boss. Requirements: a laptop, a Google sign-in and curiosity."
Infect the CMS;<NAME>, <NAME>, <NAME>;Regency North;Saturday;2 p.m. - 2:50 p.m.;"We web developers strive for rugged independence. The luckiest of us have total control over our web stacks and the design of our projects, unlike those poor sods forced to labor within the Content Management System (CMS). Therein lies the problem; being apart means being invisible unless you spread your content to the CMS and beyond. This panel will discuss some strategies and experiences for getting your app content to find readers where they are."
"Git &amp; Github: Learning to commit to version control";<NAME>;Keeneland;Saturday;2 p.m. - 2:50 p.m.;When you're working on a web project, do you end up with a folder full of files with names like index_draft1.html, index_draft2.html, index_draft3.html? How often have you added a bad piece of code to a script, only to realize you didn't save a copy of the version that worked yesterday?
State of the Unions;<NAME>, <NAME>;Regency Center;Saturday;2 p.m. - 2:50 p.m.;"Labor unions may be struggling to maintain their membership, but they still play a pivotal role in the nation&rsquo;s economy and politics. Tom and <NAME> will discuss data you can use to dig into the public and private-sector unions in your region, shedding light on their finances, their membership and the ways they wield their considerable power."
Painless scraping with Helium Scraper;<NAME>;<NAME>;Saturday;2 p.m. - 2:50 p.m.;"Helium Scraper is a reasonably low-cost ($140) solution for a lot of scraping chores, even if it&rsquo;s not the magic bullet. This demonstration will show you when it might work for your project and give examples of how it works."
Mini-Boot Camp (Saturday) Team B;TBA;Shawnee/Cherokee;Saturday;2 p.m. - 4:50 p.m.;*Pre-registered attendees only
Make the robots work for you - implementing PANDA in your newsroom;<NAME>, <NAME>, <NAME>, <NAME>;<NAME>;Saturday;3 p.m. - 3:50 p.m.;Wouldn't it be sweet if you got an email when something newsworthy happens? Wouldn't that make your job easier? Well, have we got news for you. Learn about implementing PANDA in your newsroom and automating your data chores.
Mapping 1 with qGIS: Displaying data geographically;<NAME>;Keeneland;Saturday;3 p.m. - 3:50 p.m.;Displaying data geographically with Quantam GIS 1.8.
Going beyond the obvious: Creative uses for data;<NAME>, <NAME>;Regency South;Saturday;3 p.m. - 3:50 p.m.;Data is not just for analyzing, sorting and filtering. We'll share the best databases for finding sources, uncovering contact information, investigating relationships -- and how to get them. Great for beginners or anyone who wants to see spreadsheets in a new light.
Finding stories in health data;<NAME>, <NAME>, <NAME>;Regency Center;Saturday;3 p.m. - 3:50 p.m.;Learn about datasets that can help localize health stories, including pharmaceutical company spending on doctors, nursing home violations and hospital quality, among others. We will dive into Medicare data and data that local and state reporters can use.
Making timelines;<NAME>, <NAME>;Gulfstream/Hialeah;Saturday;3 p.m. - 3:50 p.m.;Displaying a series of events can be as simple as drawing a straight line. But if you want to get fancier, there are a bunch of other options to display chronologies and storylines. In this talk, we'll take a tour of current timelines in the wild and walk you through three open-source tools to help you make your own: ProPublica's TimelineSetter, <NAME>'s TimelineJS, and WNYC's Vertical Timeline.
Python programming for the rest of us 2: Basic Python;<NAME>, <NAME>;Kentucky Suite;Saturday;3 p.m. - 3:50 p.m.;"This three-part class is designed for data journalists who are comfortable with the basic tools of our craft but intimidated by the ""p-word"" and think Aron Pilhofer has signed a pact with the devil. We will cover the basics and show you how a little programming can save you hours or days of time and make you look like a genius to your boss. Requirements: a laptop, a Google sign-in and curiosity."
(Way) beyond charts: Making interactive fun;Tasneem Raja, Sisi Wei;Regency North;Saturday;3 p.m. - 3:50 p.m.;Don't forget fun when making your interactives! We'll showcase witty and offbeat interactive graphics and news games from a few outlets we love, with the inside scoop on how each graphic was created, how the ideas got greenlighted, and tools you'd need to make them yourself.
Python programming for the rest of us 3: Webscraping for dummies;<NAME>, <NAME>;Kentucky Suite;Saturday;4 p.m. - 4:50 p.m.;"This three-part class is designed for data journalists who are comfortable with the basic tools of our craft but intimidated by the ""p-word"" and think Aron Pilhofer has signed a pact with the devil. We will cover the basics and show you how a little programming can save you hours or days of time and make you look like a genius to your boss. Requirements: a laptop, a Google sign-in and curiosity."
Data journalism around the globe;<NAME>, <NAME>, <NAME>, <NAME>;Regency South;Saturday;4 p.m. - 4:50 p.m.;"Panelists will show what data journalism is like outside the United States. There are different trends, and one of them is new independent centers for investigative reporting and cross-border investigations. Crowdsourcing is another trend, together with interactivity and different ways of mapping the news. We&rsquo;re also witnessing the growing power of classical journalistic skills in combination with computer-assisted reporting."
Connecting the dots with NodeXL;<NAME>;Gulfstream/Hialeah;Saturday;4 p.m. - 4:50 p.m.;NodeXL is an add-in for Excel 2007 and 2010 that allows you to do network analysis (aka social network analysis) in a familiar spreadsheet environment. You'll learn how to use the software by turning data from 2007 on voting patterns in the US Senate into an informative graphic revealing the chamber's underlying dynamics - and highlighting the few senators who broke the partisan mold.
Mapping 2 with qGIS: Importing and selecting data by attribute;<NAME>;Keeneland;Saturday;4 p.m. - 4:50 p.m.;
Campaign finance the data science way;<NAME>, <NAME>;Regency North;Saturday;4 p.m. - 4:50 p.m.;The Center for Investigative Reporting and IRE teamed up with the San Francisco data science company Kaggle to help bridge the gap in journalism between hacking, math and substantive expertise. They challenged data scientists to approach a database journalists have looked at a million times over: federal campaign contributions. We'll introduce you to the winner of the competition and discuss the tools the data scientists used and their results.
Using CAR to hold the powerful accountable;<NAME>, <NAME>;Regency Center;Saturday;4 p.m. - 4:50 p.m.;From officials' calendars to campaign finance and fundraisers' efforts, we'll discuss the ways data can help you investigate those in power.
Wrangling Web data with Google docs - advanced course;<NAME>;<NAME>;Saturday;4 p.m. - 4:50 p.m.;Lots of people use Google Docs. But many of them don't know about the Google Apps Script language, which makes it possible to scrape data from across the web and from Google's geography, finance, machine learning and other APIs, then present and analyze the data in a Google Spreadsheet. This session will demonstrate the basics of Apps Script by building a spreadsheet that automatically imports new data from a public source every morning and sends an email when it comes across something interesting.
CAR Conference Sales (Sunday);TBA;2nd Floor;Sunday;8:30 a.m. - 10:30 a.m.;"Stop by the IRE sales table and take a look at our merchandise. We will be selling books, including the newest title in the IRE beat book series. The large selection of titles we carry will certainly include your interests. The winners of the IRE T-shirt contest will be displayed and on sale. The sales table is also the place to get your ticket to ""A Night on the Town"" an event that is sure to be a fun time! All proceeds from your purchase help support IRE and its mission."
Mapping best practices;<NAME>, <NAME>, <NAME>;Regency Center;Sunday;9 a.m. - 9:50 a.m.;Applications such as QGIS and Google Fusion Tables have made digital mapping accessible to anyone. But are we building maps that are useful? This panel will explore design dos and don'ts and discuss ways to optimize your maps so they perform well for your audiences.
Intro to mapping with Fusion Tables;<NAME>;Shawnee/Cherokee;Sunday;9 a.m. - 9:50 a.m.;Welcome to Google Fusion Tables. In this hands-on introduction to the free online tool you'll learn how to import data and turn it into an online map easily. We'll add in some simple customization as well. Experience with spreadsheets and a Google account are the only prerequisites for this class.
Mini-Boot Camp (Sunday) Combined;TBA;Seneca/Iroquois;Sunday;9 a.m. - 10:50 a.m.;*Pre-registered attendees only
Investigating online;<NAME>;Regency North;Sunday;9 a.m. - 9:50 a.m.;From better search techniques to the invisible Web, how to find documents and databases on deadline and where to find reliable websites for enterprise stories.
Finding data online;<NAME>;Regency North;Sunday;10 a.m. - 10:50 a.m.;There are plenty of clues on the Web that data exist, even though so much information is buried deep beyond search engine eyes. This session will highlight advanced searches and strategies for finding data that can't be found with a traditional search engine. We'll also point you to the best sites for tracking down local, national and international data. All you need is a browser and some curiosity.
Career development roundtable;<NAME>, <NAME>, <NAME>, <NAME>;Regency Center;Sunday;10 a.m. - 10:50 a.m.;Wondering what you need to learn to take that next step in your career? Interested in which skills news organizations are prioritizing now, and what might set you up for what they'll want next? Drop by the roundtable join us for a discussion of the skills that will help you progress.
How (not) to be a danger to yourself and others using the command line;Ted Han;Shawnee/Cherokee;Sunday;10 a.m. - 10:50 a.m.;Harkening back to an earlier era of computing, the command line can easily seem like magic. Incantations are learned by rote, passed on by word of mouth from user to user, or written into arcane and impenetrable documentation. But live in fear no more! We will illuminate its nature and bind it to our use, navigating computers, manipulating files, and opening a comprehensible gateway to a world of pro-user and developer tools. Attendees should bring their laptops and be prepared to discover the Linux or Mac command line. (Note: Windows users may also learn transferable skills)
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