2014 CAR CONFERENCE AUDIO
To access audio: Go to the CAR Conference Schedule page and click on the session you want to listen to. Under the headers for “Date/Time” and “Location” you’ll find a section called “Audio File.” If the audio has been uploaded, you’ll find a link to download the file. Full-panel audio is only available for IRE members.
UPLOADED AUDIO:
A picture of Earth through time: Storytelling with Google Earth Engine
Building a data journalism course
Danger! Hazardous materials: Using data to uncover pollution
Data Deep Dives (Pt. 1)
Data Deep Dives (Pt. 2)*
“Mind the Gap” - Holes in your data can lead you to stories
Examining prescribing patterns (Philip Meyer Award winner)
Getting started: Controlling CAR conference overload
The data-driven story (Pt. 1) Conceiving and launching
The data-driven story (Pt. 2) Putting the package together
The data-driven story (Pt. 3) Bulletproofing and presentation
NewsCamp::The next generation of data viz (Alberto Cairo)
This just in: Data for breaking news investigations
Tools for cracking PDFs
Follow the fracking
Dig into business with data investigations
Killers and other criminals: Keeping tabs on crime
Breaking out the heavy artillery - using data to track weapons
Investigating infrastructure: The National Inventory of Dams
Rifling through the mapping toolbox
Enhance your stories with statistics
Love your life, retire your servers
Free tools for data analysis
When data don’t exist
Docs! Docs! Docs!
How the internet watches you
Media as data - illuminating the undiscovered country of television news
Use FOIA Machine to prepare, send and track you public records requests
FollowTheMoney: Lead the pack in tracking campaign finance
The customized Census: How to use microdata when you just can’t find the right table
Make reporting better, together - Collaborative reporting with GitHub
The Investigative Dashboard - Tools to expose organized crime and corruption around the world*
The year in CAR in odorama
Proper workflows for data projects
Creating maps: Principles, mistakes and potential
Social media for investigations
DataViz for everyone: A practical guide to going responsive
Holding algorithms accountable
Free the data: Getting government agencies to give up the goods
Cooking with hardware
Campaign Finance II: Going beyond the data
50 ideas in 50 minutes
Protecting your work from prying eyes
100+ tips and tools for news research
Finding great stories in not-so-great nonprofits
Complaints: A road map for killer investigations
Campaign Finance I: Mining FEC data
It’s a disaster
Wading through the sea of data on hospitals, doctors, medicine and more
More than an editor: Leadership for data-driven projects
Investigating racial inequality
Weathering the storm: Using data to track nature’s fury
The latest from Sunlight
Intro to D3
NewsCamp::Demystifying D3
Incorporating data into your beat
How to uncover inequality and swindlers in subsidized housing programs near you
Crossing the language boundaries across your newsroom: journo to dev and back
A tour of the new Census Reporter
Powerful data science tools without an engineering degree
PoliInformatics research challenge
Building charts and graphs that are connected to live data
How PANDA works: Software architecture for big data
Where do you want to go? Career roundtable
Web tools, tips and tricks for investigations
What’s the deal with data science?
Census I: Must-have data for every beat
Census II: Going beyond the basics
Census III: Mapping and presentation
Advanced searching techniques
Build your bot army
Feel like you’re hacking without really doing it
How to deal with millions of documents without losing your mind (and time)
Inside the global offshore money maze
Open data: Practical tips and current issues
When to scrape: Tools and techniques
Threat modeling: Security for your story
A quick trip through data in the sciences
It’s not just for looks: Presentation as a storytelling tool
Digging online for global data
Harnessing the power of the crowd
EDITED - NOT UPLOADED
Save the data: going from zip (drive) to news by rescuing, analyzing old data*
Hacks or Hackers?*
You won’t believe what static site generators can do for news apps*
An app for that: Mobile tech and tools for reporting
The fine art of negotiating for data
The art and craft of finding people
Inspecting the Inspectors
AUDIO CLIPS (all clips are under 5 mins and compiled in a Storify playlist)
Alberto Cairo on data visualization: http://storify.com/IRE_NICAR/alberto-cairo-the-next-generation-of-data-viz
Roddy Boyd and Theo Francis on detecting corporate fraud: http://storify.com/IRE_NICAR/detecting-corporate-fraud-recap
Denise Malan, Ben Poston and Tim Wheeler on hazmat pollution:
http://ire.org/blog/car-conference-blog/2014/03/13/audio-using-data-cover-hazmat-pollution/