NICAR 2013 The best presentations, blog posts and tweets from the journalism data geekfest.

Data science, commoditized backends, and the need to know code: A roundup of NICAR 2013

The best tweets, presentations and tips from NICAR 2013

The best tweets, presentations and tips from NICAR 2013 by Craig Silverman | March 4, 2013 The annual gathering of journalism’s finest data, interactive, product and geeks wrapped up yesterday in Louisville Kentucky. We spent part of the weekend curating the best tips, presentations, videos, tweets blog posts and other content from the event. You can find it all here in our NICAR 2013 Notebook. Below is a look at our picks of the must read content and other insights ...

Tools, Slides and Links from NICAR13

Highlights from NICAR’s Year in CAR presentation

Highlights from NICAR’s Year in CAR presentation This morning’s Year in CAR presentation at NICAR 2013 provided a great look back not only at some of the great investigative work of the last year, but also some really good visualizations and presentations. The full slide deck from Mark Horvit and Megan Luther’s presentation should be on the IRE site soon, but below are some of my favorites from their list of 2012 data-driven highlights. Click through for some of the ...

NICAR Lightning Talks: A round-up

Undoubtedly the most attended session at NICAR 2013, the Lightning Talks provided a delightful relief from the heavier (thought certainly worthwhile) information-laden talks that make up the bulk of the conference. Eleven journalists took on the challenge of presenting a topic of their choice in five minutes or fewer. It was lighthearted and fun, but concise but valuable. There’s a rumor that a video of the talks will appear sometime soon (and pictures have surfaced), but in the meantime, here’s ...

Ben Welsh rocks the mic at #nicar13

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Scraping into Louisville: NICAR 2013 - Day One

Day one at NICAR was a half-day for me, after the “short” drive from Chicago and a clock change I was ready to start work at 3, having missed some unmissable sessions already. The lobby areas are full of familiar faces and many more name badges which put names to faces. So just time to attend two full sessions. I caught a few minutes of an introduction to Excel 2013/Sky Drive but the internet connection went down soon after I ...

Spreadsheets bridge gap between developers and reporters

This is my first NICAR, but someone mentioned that NICAR 2012 was “The Year of the Map”, with panels, tutorials, and discussion otherwise centered around new, exciting tools like Mapbox and Leaflet. We invented new terms like BoyerMaps and used the rest of the year to make some incredible map-based news apps. If NICAR 2013 has a theme among its divergent, widely varied sessions, it is the resurgence of an antiquated tool: the spreadsheet. From Tasneem Raja’s tabletop.js session to ...

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