NICAR 2016 Slides, Links & Tutorials #NICAR16 // Ricochet by Chrys Wu

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Presentations & Tutorials

The Way We Look Next: Using Census Data to Cover a Changing America slides | tipsheet (from Paul Overberg)
All About the Analysis slides & tipsheet (from Ricardo Brom, Tyler Dukes, Tania Montalvo & Chrys Wu)
The Exploding Ecosystem of Health Data: Case Study — Intensive Care (Peru) tipsheet (from Fabiola Torres Lopez)
Don’t Let the Bots Win slides | tipsheet (from Liam Andrew & Daniel Craigmile)
Right is the New Cool slides | tipsheet (from Sinduja Rangarajan, Agustin Armendariz & Janet Roberts)
Advanced data cleaning with OpenRefine repo (from Sarah Cohen)
How to find international data slides & tipsheets (from Jonathan Stoneman)
CryptoParty slides (from Mike Tigas)
SQLite II: counting, summing, and other math operations tipsheet (from Emmanuel Martinez)
Hands-on R slides & code (from Coulter Jones & Amelia McNamara)
The Digital Dark Arts slides Pt. 1 slides (from Mike Tigas) | Pt. 2 slides (from Nicole Hensley)
How Data Journalists Disclose Their Methods slides (from Stuart Thompson)
Time Value of Money And How It Applies To Pensions slides | workshop materials (from Cezary Podkul)
Useful Command Line Tools for Reporters repo (from Kendall Taggart & Augustin Armendiz)
So You Want to Be a Lonely Coder? slides (from Scott Pham, Brent Jones, Allie Kanik & Lindsey Cook)
Intro to Programming (“Are you smarter than a fifth grader?”) tipsheet (from Lindsay Cook & Ashlyn Still)
Lightning-fast data analysis with Tableau tipsheet (from Sarah Ryley)
Working with big geodata (without messing up) slides (from Dhurmil Mehta)
Practical data visualization in JavaScript repo (from Dana Amihere)
Behind the curtain: What open data looks like from within the government tipsheet (from Rebecca Williams)
R Basics: Stats repo (from Ryan Menenzes & Olga Pierce)
Delivering the news over HTTPS slides (from Paul Schreiber)
Intro to Rails slides (from Al Shaw)
How to install Jupyter Notebook & Agate step-by-step (from Matt Waite)
Hands on with Machine Learning repo (from Chase Davis)
JavaScript 2: jQuery and the DOM workshop slides & examples (from Scott Pham)
Intro to PSPP; Stats in Excel slides & handouts
Tips on investigating agribusiness slides & tipsheets
Automating your work with Node.js repo (from Ryan Murphy)
Parsing Prickly PDFs resources & worksheet (from Jacob Fenton & Jeremy Singer-Vine)
Debugging & testing code in Python Slides | exercises (Geoffrey Hing)
Command line graphics slides | code | “How we made it” blog post (from Jon Keegan)
Nyttigheter från Nicar (dag 1 | dag 2)
Reverse engineering campaign finance stories slides (from Aaron Bycoffe, Carrie Levine, Derek Willis)
Election: Dark Money tipsheet (from T. Christian Miller)
Metrics for data journalism notes
Import.io training materials (from Nils Mulvad)
Inequality: Income and Middle Class slides (from Tim Henderson)
Data and Immigration slides (from Tim Henderson)
Algorithmic Accountability: Case studies from the field (from Nick Diakopoulos, Jeff Larson & Jennifer Stark)
What’s the story with algorithms? (from Nick Diakopoulos & Jennifer Stark)
Python intermediate training (from Serdar Tumgoren)
Reproducible Research and Analysis Sharing slides (from Serdar Tumgoren)
Learn R for beginners (from Sharon Machlis)
Python for data wrangling tutorial (from Jackie Kazil)
How to avoid rookie mistakes slides (from MaryJo Webster)
Excel Magic tipsheet (from MaryJo Webster)
Data-Driven Energy Stories You Can Tell About Your Community Slides, links & resources | tipsheet (from the Inside Energy team)
Mining college scorecard data slides (from Andrea Fuller & Annie Waldman)
Dataviz with R tipsheet (from Ron Campbell)
Advanced data cleaning with Python: Machine learning techniques slides (from Cathy Deng)
Scraping data without programming slides (from Samantha Sunne)
Data wrangling with R and reproducible research in journalism handouts (from Bill Alpert)
Election APIs slides (from Sam Cohen, Matt Della Volpe, Derek Willis & Lindsay Young)
Data cleaning with regular expressions (from Christian McDonald
The Bot Emporium Slides | tipsheet (from Justin Myers)
CSVkit and other command line tools (from Karrie Kehoe)
Finding stuff online: A journalist’s guide to tracking down information (from Jaimi Dowdell & Mark Horvit)
Data for Breaking News slides (from John Keefe & Steven Stock)
Autotune, making reusable graphics Intro | GitHub repo (from Casey Miller & Kavya Sukumar)
Space journalism (how to use satellite imagery) slides | “How we did it” blog post (from Eric Segara & Al Shaw)
Best practices in scraping from ethics to techniques (from Rachel Alexander)
Animation for Storytelling (from Kavya Sukumar)
Ruby tipsheet (from Tiff Fehr)
Intro to D3 (from Chris Canipe)
Intro to Sinatra (from Jacob Harris)
Evaluating data quality (From Giannina Segnini)
How to use T and CSVKit to quickly collect and analyze #nicar16 tweets from the command-line (from Dan Nguyen)
Intro to CAR and the conference (from Liz Lucas and Lisa Pickoff-White)
2016 Reporter’s Guide to Using QCEW Data (from David Hiles)
Intro to Python (from Anthony DeBarros)
Tipsheets for Web Scraping Without Programming and An Introduction to Open Refine (from Rob Gebeloff)
PyCAR Slides | Tutorial repo (from Tom Meagher, Alex Richards, Adriana Homolova, Cathy Deng, Scott Bradley)
Tipsheet from the “Roll your own criminal justice” panel (from Tom Meagher)
Python pandas for data analysis tutorial (from Carla Astudillo & Joe Germuska)
How to train your newsroom slides (from Dana Williams & Rachel Schallom)
Building Twitter Bots in Node tutorial (from Thomas Wilburn)
Your First News App tutorial (from Ben Welsh)
Just Enough Django tutorial (from Ben Welsh)
Build your first map with Leaflet.js tutorial (from Chris Essig)
Network Analysis With Gephi (from Peter Aldhous)
Which, chart should I use, and why? Information design for the human brain (from Peter Aldhous)
Information design for the human brain slides (from Alexandra Kanik)
Visualizing Data with Python tipsheet (from Roberto Rocha)
Hands on with health data tipsheet | data (from Charles Ornstein & Ryann Grochowski Jones)
How to build VR interactives using Digital Elevation Model (DEM) data (from Armand Emamdjomeh)

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Software & Tools

QGIS 2: Manipulating and editing geographic data with QGIS slides (from Mike Corey)
ProPublica’s FEC Itemizer – browse Federal Campaign Finance filings
Donor Reveal repo – hover & find who donated to current lawmakers
Open Semantic Desktop Search desktop search engine package
The Globe & Mail’s opens-source chart-tool
Foundation Directory Online grantmaker search
Free public record searches
IFTTT News Alerts
twExplorer – search Twitter
Foller.me – Twitter analytics
Ban.jo – real-time social analytics & trends
Klear – social analytics
Sqoop – search for company information
Mr. Data Converter – converts Excel data into one web-friendly formats, including HTML, JSON and XML
Choose a license – helps you choose an open source license.
TuitionTracker.org
30+ free tools for data visualization and analysis (from Sharon Machlis)
Battery Status API a.k.a. Battery API, for checking your app’s battery drain
NICAR data journalism bootcamp software suite
Michael Keller’s Node.js wrapper for the Bureau of Labor Statistics Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages API
Elextools – quick lookup for FEC filings and Associated Press Elex data
Elex Associated Press v.2 Election Data wrapper
Parserator – for bulk parsing of names and addresses
Amanda Hickman’s court debt scraper
CSVdedupe – Command line tool for deduplicating CSV files
Experimental Facebook Graph Search Engine made by Henk van Ess: graph.tips
Overview
ProPublica’s Campaign Finance API
FOIAonline – search the status of FOIA requests
Regular Expressions 101 – visual tool for regex
California satellite images released under CC license (from Planet Labs)
Wireservice – open source tools you can contribute to, no matter your skill level (from Christopher Groskopf)
Pneumatic – bulk upload to DocumentCloud (from DocumentCloud)
Census Reporter (from Joe Germuska)
Agate used in USA Today’s Diversity Index (from Christopher Groskopf)
Carebot – meaningful analytics for journalism (from Livia Labate)