The short link to this list is j.mp/nicar16 (case sensitive).
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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)
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References & Other Resources from NICARians
- TechRaking slides
- The Northwestern University Knight Lab student reports
- Notes from the NICAR conversations sessions
- Brent Jones’s NICAR16 notes
- Tyler Vigen’s Spurious Correlations
- Code and data from SRF Data – the data-driven journalism unit of Swiss Radio & TV
- Reproducible Research with R/RStudio repo
- Michael Corey’s “Turn your data into sound using our new MIDITime library“
- Follow The Money
- ProPublica’s guide to bulletproofing your data
- The Quartz Guide to Bad Data
- Sarah Cohen’s Bulletproofing the data project
- RFCP’s state-by-state guide to open records & open meetings laws
- 60+ resources to improve your R skills
- News Nerd Book Club notes (They were discussing Information Doesn’t Want To Be Free: Laws for the Internet Age by Cory Doctorow
- OpenIntro statistics textbook (free & open-source)
- How to ask a good question on StackOverflow
- On Repeat: How to Use Loops to Explain Anything
- Foreign Influence Reporter
- Data: Home Mortgage Disclosure Act
- Data: Foreign Agents Registration Act
- Writable APIs – The Federal Register.gov Commenting Feature
- Great R packages for data import, wrangling & visualization
- MaryJo Webster’s data journalism training materials
- Scott Klein’s AWS training class resources
- Tota11y – an accessibility visualization toolkit
- Data Viz for All – Best practices for mobile, accessible interactives
- The Crime Report resources for crime reporting
- Research paper: The search engine manipulation effect (SEME) and its possible impact on the outcomes of elections
- Make a bot to monitor court cases w/ PACER, RSS and @IFTTT
- How Buenos Aires’s La Nación extracted data to investigate Argentina’s Senate expenses (from Momi Peralta)
- Matt Waite’s journalism syllabi and teaching materials
- .Rddj – resources for doing data journalism with R (from Timo Grossenbacher)
- Depot – An encyclopedia of interactive news (from Troy Griggs & Ken Schwencke)
- A massive spreadsheet of interactive news projects (from Troy Griggs)
- Mapping the USA’s diversity from 1960-2060 (from USA Today)
- American Community Survey (ACS) Data Users Group
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Lighting Talks
- I Improved My Math Fluency, And So Can You slides (Ryann Grochowski Jones)
- Solve Every Statistics Problem with One Weird Trick slides (Jonathan Stray)
- Let lookup save you from the boring, repetitive work you’ve forgotten you’re even doing slides (Chris Groskopf)
- Automation in the newsroom slides (Ariana Giorgi)
- Regular Regular Expression Exercises for Regular People slides (Dan Nguyen)
- Map tiles are dead; Long live (vector) tiles! slides (Ken Schwencke)
- How to read 52 books in 52 weeks slides (Nicole Zhu)
- What I learned working on Failure Factories slides (Adam Playford)
- Let’s Talk About the Future of Interactive News Content slides (Gregor Aisch)
- Cats and Stats slides (Jennifer LaFleur)
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Work Samples
- 12 Sandy GIFs: An animated guide to Wisconsin’s frac sand rush (Wisconsin Watch)
- The New American Slavery: Invited To The U.S., Foreign Workers Find A Nightmare story | Data and analysis supporting several passages
- The Ticket Machine story | data, methodologies, analysis repo – Buzzfeed
- A (Slightly Cynical) Game About
Influence in Congress – BuzzFeed - Failure Factories – Tampa Bay Times
- It Took a FOIA Lawsuit to Uncover How the Obama Administration Killed FOIA Reform – Vice News
- How we used satellite data to track California wildfires – Reveal / CIR
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For previous years’ tutorials, videos, presentations and tips see the lists from 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012 and 2011.