NICAR17 Slides, Links & Tutorials #NICAR17

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Presentations & Tutorials

• Google Earth flythrough panel tipsheet | slides (from Nassos Stylianou)
• Practical dataviz using jQuery tutorial (from Maureen Linke)
• What the hell is R? tipsheet (from Tisha Thompson & Sisi Wei)
• Big data in small orgs slides | tipsheet (from Eva Constantaras)
• Beginning D3 tutorial | code (from Darla Cameron & Ashley Wu)
• Regex hands-on slides | tipsheet (from Justin Myers)
• Structuring your data files slides (from Sandhya Kambhampati‏)
• Mining the social web slides | GitHub repo (from Lam Thuy Vo & Cathy Deng)
• Google Earth Engine hands-on workshop slides (from Eric Sagara)
• Intermediate D3 slides & repo (from John Muyskens & Leslie Shapiro)
• Getting started with the Windows command line tipsheet (from Mike Stucka)
• Data crunching in Python (for people who only know Excel) GitHub repo (from Cody Winchester)
• Algorithmic accountability panel slides | notes (from Greg Linch)
• Making data approachable for younger audiences slides (from Rachel Schallom)
• Data analysis in R tutorial (from Peter Aldhous)
• From R to interactive charts and maps tutorial (from Peter Aldhous)
• NPR’s responsive graphics tool and how CNN, Mashable, DailyViz have adapted it slides (from Alyson Hurt & Matt Stiles)
• From drugs to doctors: Uncovering stories in health data project list (from Jeff Ernsthausen, Nicole Vap & Ryan McNeill)
• Stories waiting to be told with housing data slides (from Tim Henderson)
• The NICAR Hitchhiker’s Guide To Web APIs tutorial (from David Eads & Helga Salinas)
• Intro to Python I tutorial (from Liz Lucas)
• Intro to Python II tutorial (from Cathy Deng)
• Intro to Python III tutorial (from Alex Richards)
• Packaging Data Stories for Digital slides (from Richard Watkins)
• The Election Data You Should Be Paying Attention To tipsheet (from Derek Willis & Rachel Shorey)
• Doing Data Journalism Under Duress in Developing Countries slides (from Eva Constantaras)
• Visualization and Analysis With Python GitHub repo (from Nathaniel Lash & Adam Playford)
• Uncovering the influence tipsheet (from Sandra Fish, Ben Wieder & Derek Willis)
• Let’s Make data GIFs! slides | GitHub repo (from Lena Groeger)
• How to be the caring human being behind the job posting notes (from Rachel Schallom & David Eads)
• Reproducibility and R Markdown tutorial (from Andrew Ba Tran)
• Mapping With R tutorial (from Andrew Ba Tran)
• VR interactives with three.js GitHub repo (from Armand Emamdjomeh)
• Introduction Klaxon tutorial | What is Klaxon (from Tom Meagher)
• PyCAR slides | exercise (from Tom Meagher)
• Intro to JavaScript GitHub repo (from Chris Essig)
• Intro to Leaflet.js maps GitHub repo (from Chris Essig)
• Excel Magic tipsheet | training materials (from MaryJo Webster)
• Your First Python Notebook tutorial (from Ben Welsh)
• GIS With Python tutorial (from Roberto Rocha)
• Breaking Through the Facebook Wall slides (from Julia Angwin, Jon Keegan & Jeremy Merrill)
• Data Wrangling With Python class materials (from Anthony DeBarros)
• Google Trends: Understanding the Data slides | tipsheet (from Jennifer Lee)
• Tools for Publishing Web & Print Graphics slides (from Troy Griggs & Rebecca K.K. Lai)
• Roundup of International Computer Assisted Reporting slides (from Marianne Bouchart)
• Cleaning Data with MySQL GitHub repo (from Madi Alexander)
• Putting your town under a microscope — and keeping it there tipsheet (from Matt Kiefer)
• Favorite (Mac OS) Command Line Tools tipsheet (from AJ Vicens)
• Earth, Wind & Fire — covering weather events slides (from Eric Sagara, Stephen Stirling & Chris Vaillancourt)
• Covering racial disparity; Investigating bias and influence in criminal justice; Open Refine slides & tutorial (from Rob Gebeloff)
• News Quizzes & Games slides (from Amanda Hickman & Sandeep Junnarkar)
• Personalized interactive journeys slides (from Scott Blumenthal & Sandeep Junnarkar)
• User Testing: Gathering insight to make better stories tipsheet (from Hannah Birch & Clarisa Diaz)
• MySQL I & II tutorial (from Liz Lucas)
• Animation for Storytelling slides (from Kavya Sukumar)
• Working with Academics slides | tipsheet (from Matt Dempsey)
• Working with Academics slides (from Al Shaw)
• D3.js: How to make reusable charts for different platforms GitHub repo (from Daniele Palumbo)
• The Lone Trainer slides (from Ron Campbell)
• Collaborating With the Competition tipsheet (from Sandhya Kambhampati‏)
• Command Line Graphics slides | code (from Jon Keegan)
• Scraping the Swiss Federal Administrative Court’s Database and Analysing the Verdicts slides (from Barnaby Skinner)
• Using a Charting Tool slides (from Stacy Jones & Grace Donnelly)
• How to Bulletproof Your Data Story slides | tipsheet (from Jennifer Forsyth)
• Working With Higher Education Data slides (from Jennifer Forsyth)
• Getting Data Into Microsoft Access slides | tipsheet (from Tracy Greer)
• Tips to convert PDFs in bulk tipsheet (from Todd Wallack)
• Sports Data Panel slides & tips (from Steve Doig)
• Beginner PDF Data Extraction slides & tutorial (from Miguel Barbosa)
• Intermediate PDF Manipulation slides & tutorial (from Miguel Barbosa)
• Advanced PDF Manipulation tutorial (from Jacob Fenton)
• Trust and Transparency in Data Journalism slides (from Jenny Ye)
• Playful and Light Data Stories slides (from Jenny Ye)
• Carto basics tipsheet (from CJ Sinner)
• Data Journalism from Space slides & demo video (from Sara Schnadt)
• Doctors and Sex Abuse slides (from Jeff Ernsthausen)
• Beginners’ Guide to Google Fusion Tables tutorial (from Tommy Kaas)
• How Drawing Exercises Your Brain slides (from Leah Kohlenberg)
• Broadcast: Transforming data in knockout visuals slides (from McNelly Torres)
• The Lighter Side of Data Journalism slides | resources (from Jeff Hargarten)
• 30 Tools in 60 Minutes roundup (from Victor Hernandez)
• Digital Security for the Real World slides | tipsheet (from Mike Tigas)

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Software & Tools

• BagIt: from the Library of Congress background | GitHub repo
• Follow That Page — track when web pages have changed
• Computational Journalism Workbench
• Awesome Screenshot
• 16 free digital tools for newsrooms created by ICIJ Fellows
• Pym.js (NPR Visuals rig to embed responsive iFrames)
• Pym.js WordPress plugin
• Botlist – app store for bots
• gif.js – JavaScript GIF encoder that runs in your browser
• California Election Data
• Project Jupyter
• f.lux – dims your computer screen based on time of day
• AntiRSI – repetitive stress injury prevention tool
• Datawrapper
• SVG Crowbar
• Mister Nester

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References & Other Resources from NICARians

• Eloquent JavaScript
• Towards Editorial Transparency in Computational Journalism whitepaper
• Readings from the Communicating Uncertainty panel with Alberto Cairo, Jen Christiansen and Mark Hansen
• Documentation for getting started with API.ai
• Jeremy Singer-Vine’s Pinterest collection of data gifs
• Lena Groeger’s Pinterest collection of GIFs that make you learn
• Even the good bots fight whitepaper (See Fig. 1 for a classification of bot types)
• Metrics for News
• National Conference of State Legislatures
• Sharon Machlis’s “Mapping in R just got easier“
• SND Best of Digital Design competition

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Lighting Talks

• Self-care for Nerds — Aditi Bhandari
• Stuff I’ve said to FOIA officers to get them to give me … well, stuff — Cezary Podkul
• What I learned by submitting the same FOIA more than 1,000 times — Steven Rich
• Subverting the story model in the age of Trump — Tyler Fisher
• Everything I Wasted Time Worrying About as A Newbie Coder — Kate Rabinowitz
• CAR through the ages: what I learned from collecting every single NICAR program since 1990 — Christine Zhang
• How to collaborate when no one understands what you do — Caelainn Barr
• Using Uber’s open data to understand cities (see movement.uber.com) — Cory Kendrick
• 58 stupid things we learned from mapping all 25,000 of California’s election precincts — Joe Fox
• Literally Everything The New York Times Knows About Elections — Jeremy Bowers

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Work Samples

• Inside Trump’s holdings: A web of potential conflicts (from John W. Schoen)
• How Not to Be Misled by the Jobs Report from The New York Times animates what’s doing on in a standard error bar to indicate uncertainty

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For previous years’ tutorials, videos, presentations and tips see the lists from 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012 and 2011.