This is a preliminary list of speakers who will be attending the conference. Additional speakers will be added as they are confirmed.

Speakers

• Aaron Bycoffe

  Huffington Post

  Featured at these sessions and panels:

  What we can find out about elections

• Aaron Kessler

  100 Reporters

  Featured at these sessions and panels:

  Excel 2

• Abhi Nemani

  Code for America

  Featured at these sessions and panels:

  Open gov - New data available from the transparency movement

• Acton Gorton

  University of Illinois

  Featured at these sessions and panels:

  Web scraping with Google docs

• Adam Playford

  The Palm Beach Post

  Featured at these sessions and panels:

  Advanced Google Fusion Tables

• Aine McGuire

  ScraperWiki

  Featured at these sessions and panels:

  Creative uses of web scraping

• Al Shaw

  ProPublica

  Featured at these sessions and panels:

  What you need (and don't need) to do an election night map

• Alastair Dant

  The Guardian

  Featured at these sessions and panels:

  Capturing and analyzing Twitter feeds, Dealing with real-time data

• Alex Howard

  O’Reilly Media

  Featured at these sessions and panels:

  Open gov - New data available from the transparency movement

• Alex Richards

  Chronicle of Higher Education

  Featured at these sessions and panels:

  Intro to MySQL, Data U: The databases you need to cover higher ed

• Andrew Lehren

  The New York Times

  Featured at these sessions and panels:

  Mining data around the globe

• Anthony DeBarros

  USA TODAY

  Featured at these sessions and panels:

  Making sure you tell a story, CSVKit, The ins and outs of internal APIs

• Aron Pilhofer

  The New York Times

  Featured at these sessions and panels:

  How to edit a story made of software

• Ben Welsh

  Los Angeles Times

  Featured at these sessions and panels:

  Making sure you tell a story, Making friends with map projections, Locating the story: The latest in mapping, Build your first News App with Django

• Bill Allison

  Sunlight Foundation

  Featured at these sessions and panels:

  Follow the Money — Tracking Companies' Influence on Politics Free business journalism training before the conference

• Bill Keaggy

  Dachis Group

  Featured at these sessions and panels:

  Best visualization practices

• Brad Guilmino

  HNTB Corporation

  Featured at these sessions and panels:

  Failing government monopolies and looming alternatives

• Brant Houston

  University of Illinois

  Featured at these sessions and panels:

  Storyboarding your ideas, Tracking social media and turning it into investigations, Collaborating with data: Challenges and payoffs

• Brian Boyer

  Chicago Tribune

  Featured at these sessions and panels:

  PANDA Project show & tell, PANDA Project provisioning party, Own your own map stack: Open source maps from the ground up, TileMill

• Charles Ornstein

  ProPublica

  Featured at these sessions and panels:

  Health analyses for any newsroom

• Charlie Szymanski

  The Reporters' Lab

  Featured at these sessions and panels:

  Reporters' Lab

• Chase Davis

  Center for Investigative Reporting

  Featured at these sessions and panels:

  Worth doing for money - turning good work into money, NewsCamp::Tools for unstructured text, NewsCamp::Jam Sessions, Build your first News App with Django

• Cheryl Phillips

  The Seattle Times

  Featured at these sessions and panels:

  From your computer to the web: Using Microsoft Cloud and Google Docs, Free tools for data visualization and analysis, OK, but where did that data come from? Data validation in the digital age

• Chris Amico

  NPR

  Featured at these sessions and panels:

  Own your own map stack: Open source maps from the ground up, TileMill

• Chris Keller

  Madison.com

  Featured at these sessions and panels:

  Free tools for Web scraping without programming, Web scraping without programming

• Chris Taggart

  OpenCorporates

  Featured at these sessions and panels:

  Data for business investigations, Open gov - New data available from the transparency movement

• Christopher Groskopf

  PANDA

  Featured at these sessions and panels:

  PANDA Project show & tell, PANDA Project provisioning party, CSVKit, The ins and outs of internal APIs

• Christopher Schnaars

  USA TODAY

  Featured at these sessions and panels:

  Data viz in 20 minutes: jQuery DataTables

• Coulter Jones

  IRE and NICAR

  Featured at these sessions and panels:

  From your computer to the web: Using Microsoft Cloud and Google Docs, Mini-Boot Camp, Mini-Boot Camp part 3

• Dan Nguyen

  ProPublica

  Featured at these sessions and panels:

  Creative uses of web scraping, Web Inspector, Google Refine

• Daniel Hom

  Tableau Public

  Featured at these sessions and panels:

  Tableau for Beginners, Tableau for Pros

• Daniel Lathrop

  The Dallas Morning News

  Featured at these sessions and panels:

  Turning your stories into a tablet/phone app, Capturing and analyzing Twitter feeds

• Daniel Sinker

  Knight-Mozilla OpenNews

  Featured at these sessions and panels:

  Knight-Mozilla OpenNews Q&A

• David Cabo

  Freelance software developer

  Featured at these sessions and panels:

  Against All -Spanish- odds

• David Donald

  Center for Public Integrity

  Featured at these sessions and panels:

  Mini-Boot Camp, Mini-Boot Camp part 2

• David Herzog

  IRE and NICAR

  Featured at these sessions and panels:

  Open gov - New data available from the transparency movement, Locating the story: The latest in mapping, Mini-Boot Camp part 2

• David Hunn

  St. Louis Post-Dispatch

  Featured at these sessions and panels:

  The art of requesting and negotiating data

• David Karger

  MIT

  Featured at these sessions and panels:

  Intro to Simile Exhibit

• David Smallman

  Smallman Law PLLC

  Featured at these sessions and panels:

  Latest trends in open records battles

• Derek Willis

  The New York Times

  Featured at these sessions and panels:

  Lightning Talks, Build your first News App with Django, What we can find out about elections

• Doug Haddix

  Kiplinger Program - Ohio State University

  Featured at these sessions and panels:

  Social Media Sleuthing: Backgrounding people and companies, Access 2

• Doug Smith

  Los Angeles Times

  Featured at these sessions and panels:

  Crime analyses for any newsroom

• Elizabeth Lucas

  Center for Public Integrity

  Featured at these sessions and panels:

  Environmental analyses for any newsroom

• Gavin Off

  The Charlotte Observer

  Featured at these sessions and panels:

  Federal stats for local stories

• Helena Bengtsson

  Sveriges Television

  Featured at these sessions and panels:

  Mining data around the globe, What to do when there is no data

• Holly Hacker

  The Dallas Morning News

  Featured at these sessions and panels:

  How to track cheating in your local schools

• J.T. Johnson

  Institute for Analytic Journalism

  Featured at these sessions and panels:

  OK, but where did that data come from? Data validation in the digital age

• Jacob Fenton

  Sunlight Foundation

  Featured at these sessions and panels:

  Intro to R

• Jacob Harris

  The New York Times

  Featured at these sessions and panels:

  Capturing and analyzing Twitter feeds, Lockdown - Make sure your information is secure

• Jacob Perkins

  Weotta

  Featured at these sessions and panels:

  NewsCamp::Jam Sessions

• Jaimi Dowdell

  IRE and NICAR

  Featured at these sessions and panels:

  The Web as an investigative tool, Getting started: Digging deep with data journalism, Welcome, Integrating CAR: Story ideas for the whole newsroom, Mini-Boot Camp, Mini-Boot Camp part 3, Mini-Boot Camp part 2, Intro to SQL with Access (part 1), Mining the web for data and stories, Intro to SQL with Access (part 2)

• James Wilkerson

  The Washington Post

  Featured at these sessions and panels:

  Getting started with GitHub, The ins and outs of internal APIs

• Janet Roberts

  Thomson Reuters

  Featured at these sessions and panels:

  Importing and selecting data by attribute with ArcView

• Jeff Larson

  ProPublica

  Featured at these sessions and panels:

  A day in the life of a News App: An intro to Internet infrastructure, Predicting the news: Tell your readers what will happen, before it happens

• Jeff Porter

  Association of Health Care Journalists

  Featured at these sessions and panels:

  Health analyses for any newsroom

• Jennifer LaFleur

  ProPublica

  Featured at these sessions and panels:

  The art of requesting and negotiating data, CAR wash 1: How dirty is it?, SPSS: Using logistic regression, Mini-Boot Camp, Mini-Boot Camp part 3, Mini-Boot Camp part 2, What to do when there is no data, CAR wash 1 and 2: How dirty is it? and Cleaning

• Jennifer Wheeler

  The Register-Mail

  Featured at these sessions and panels:

  Data U: The databases you need to cover higher ed

• Jeremy Bowers

  The Washington Post

  Featured at these sessions and panels:

  NewsCamp::Jam Sessions, Webscraping/data munging hackathon with Python, Fundamentals of programming in Python

• Jeremy Dunck

  Votizen.com

  Featured at these sessions and panels:

  What we can find out about elections

• Jeremy Kohler

  St Louis Post-Dispatch

  Featured at these sessions and panels:

  Crime analyses for any newsroom

• Jim Miller

  The Press Enterprise

  Featured at these sessions and panels:

  Government CAR for any newsroom

• Jo Craven McGinty

  The New York Times

  Featured at these sessions and panels:

  Access 3

• Joe Germuska

  Chicago Tribune

  Featured at these sessions and panels:

  Census.ire.org

• Joe Kokenge

  ProPublica

  Featured at these sessions and panels:

  Excel 1

• John Bones

  Verdens Gang

  Featured at these sessions and panels:

  When data visualization does the heavy lifting

• John Keefe

  WNYC Radio

  Featured at these sessions and panels:

  What you need (and don't need) to do an election night map, The ins and outs of internal APIs

• John Perry

  Atlanta Journal-Constitution

  Featured at these sessions and panels:

  RegEx to the rescue, How to track cheating in your local schools

• Jonathan Stray

  The Associated Press

  Featured at these sessions and panels:

  NewsCamp::Music Lessons, Automation and free text

• Julian Todd

  ScraperWiki

  Featured at these sessions and panels:

  Creative uses of web scraping

• Kat Downs

  The Washington Post

  Featured at these sessions and panels:

  Best visualization practices

• Kate Golden

  Wisconsin Watch

  Featured at these sessions and panels:

  Environmental analyses for any newsroom

• Kate Martin

  Skagit Valley Herald

  Featured at these sessions and panels:

  Integrating CAR into a daily beat

• Ken McCall

  Dayton Daily News

  Featured at these sessions and panels:

  SPSS: Basic linear regression

• Ken Schwencke

  Los Angeles Times

  Featured at these sessions and panels:

  When data visualization does the heavy lifting

• Kevin Bersett

  Belleville News-Democrat

  Featured at these sessions and panels:

  Using data journalism to investigate the news

• Kevin Crowe

  Investigative Newsource

  Featured at these sessions and panels:

  CAR on a shoestring, Collaborating with data: Challenges and payoffs

• Loretta Auvil

  National Center for Supercomputing Applications

  Featured at these sessions and panels:

  NewsCamp::Tools for unstructured text

• Manny Garcia

  El Nuevo Herald

  Featured at these sessions and panels:

  Editing the CAR story

• Mar Cabra

  International Consortium of Investigative Journalists

  Featured at these sessions and panels:

  Against All -Spanish- odds

• Mark Horvit

  IRE and NICAR

  Featured at these sessions and panels:

  Year in CAR, The Web as an investigative tool, Welcome, Mini-Boot Camp

• Mark Ng

  Donald W. Reynolds National Center for Business Journalism

  Featured at these sessions and panels:

  Web scraping

• Mark Sableman

  Thompson Coburn LLP

  Featured at these sessions and panels:

  Latest trends in open records battles, Media Lawyers Brown Bag

• Mark Wert

  The Cincinnati Enquirer

  Featured at these sessions and panels:

  Integrating CAR: Story ideas for the whole newsroom

• Mary Jo Webster

  St. Paul Pioneer Press

  Featured at these sessions and panels:

  CAR on a shoestring, Advanced functions in Excel, Predicting the news: Tell your readers what will happen, before it happens, Getting to yes: Battling data pricetag inflation and other roadblocks

• Matt Carroll

  The Boston Globe

  Featured at these sessions and panels:

  Access 1

• Matt Stiles

  NPR

  Featured at these sessions and panels:

  Free tools for wrangling data, Intro to Google Fusion Tables, Own your own map stack: Open source maps from the ground up, TileMill

• Matt Waite

  University of Nebraska

  Featured at these sessions and panels:

  Build your first News App with Django, Rapid fire future: Quick talks on what's on the horizon

• Matt Wynn

  Omaha World-Herald

  Featured at these sessions and panels:

  Worth doing for money - turning good work into money, Getting data into Excel: From PDF to HTML, Predicting the news: Tell your readers what will happen, before it happens

• Maurice Tamman

  Thomson Reuters

  Featured at these sessions and panels:

  Data for business investigations

• Mc Nelly Torres

  Florida Center for Investigative Reporting

  Featured at these sessions and panels:

  Government CAR for any newsroom

• Megan Luther

  IRE and NICAR

  Featured at these sessions and panels:

  Year in CAR, Welcome, Mini-Boot Camp, Mini-Boot Camp part 2, Integrating CAR into a daily beat

• Michael Corey

  Center for Investigative Reporting

  Featured at these sessions and panels:

  Making friends with map projections, Intro to QGIS, Intro to QGIS 2, Map graphics for video

• Michelle Minkoff

  The Associated Press

  Featured at these sessions and panels:

  Free tools for Web scraping without programming, Bring your mapping dreams to fruition: Tricks to customize basic tools, Web scraping without programming

• Mike Fabey

  Aviation Week

  Featured at these sessions and panels:

  Mining federal contract data with the Federal Procurement Data System

• Mike Williams

  Thomson Reuters

  Featured at these sessions and panels:

  Editing the CAR story

• Momi Peralta Ramos

  La Nacion

  Featured at these sessions and panels:

  Getting started: Digging deep with data journalism

• Nils Mulvad

  Kaas & Mulvad

  Featured at these sessions and panels:

  Mining data around the globe, Tracking social media and turning it into investigations

• Noah Smith

  Carnegie Mellon University

  Featured at these sessions and panels:

  NewsCamp::Text as data

• Pam Dempsey

  cu-citizenaccess.org

  Featured at these sessions and panels:

  Geocoding to merge databases with addresses into maps with ArcView

• Patrick Sweet

  The Citizens' Voice

  Featured at these sessions and panels:

  CAR on a shoestring

• Paul Monies

  USA TODAY

  Featured at these sessions and panels:

  GeoCommons

• Paul Overberg

  USA TODAY

  Featured at these sessions and panels:

  Failing government monopolies and looming alternatives, Hacking the Census

• Peggy Heinkel-Wolfe

  Denton Record-Chronicle

  Featured at these sessions and panels:

  Network analysis for news

• Peter Aldhous

  New Scientist

  Featured at these sessions and panels:

  Network analysis for news, PowerPivot and NodeXL: This is not your father's Excel, Network analysis with NodeXL

• Rebecca Shapley

  Google

  Featured at these sessions and panels:

  Get the most out of Google Fusion Tables, Advanced Google Fusion Tables

• Reg Chua

  Thomson Reuters

  Featured at these sessions and panels:

  Automation and free text

• Rich Exner

  Cleveland Plain Dealer

  Featured at these sessions and panels:

  Excel 3

• Rob O'Dell

  Arizona Daily Star

  Featured at these sessions and panels:

  Getting started: Digging deep with data journalism, Using data journalism to investigate the news

• Ron Campbell

  The Orange County Register

  Featured at these sessions and panels:

  American FactFinder 2, Introduction to SPSS

• Ron Nixon

  The New York Times

  Featured at these sessions and panels:

  Making sure you tell a story, Follow the Money — Tracking Companies' Influence on Politics Free business journalism training before the conference, Mini-Boot Camp part 2, Federal stats for local stories

• Ross Perez

  Tableau Public

  Featured at these sessions and panels:

  Tableau for Beginners, Tableau for Pros

• Russ Ptacek

  KSHB-TV

  Featured at these sessions and panels:

  Hidden databases: Mining the private parts of public officials

• Ryan McNeill

  The Dallas Morning News

  Featured at these sessions and panels:

  Why learn programming: A reporter's perspective, Getting to yes: Battling data pricetag inflation and other roadblocks

• Ryan Murphy

  Texas Tribune

  Featured at these sessions and panels:

  Intro to Google Fusion Tables

• Ryann Grochowski

  Investigative Newsource

  Featured at these sessions and panels:

  Hidden databases: Mining the private parts of public officials

• Sarah Cohen

  Duke University

  Featured at these sessions and panels:

  Storyboarding your ideas, NewsCamp::Music Lessons, NewsCamp::Investigating text in the wild

• Scott Klein

  ProPublica

  Featured at these sessions and panels:

  How to edit a story made of software, What you need (and don't need) to do an election night map

• Sean Sposito

  American Banker

  Featured at these sessions and panels:

  Web scraping with Google docs

• Serdar Tumgoren

  The Washington Post

  Featured at these sessions and panels:

  Webscraping/data munging hackathon with Python, Fundamentals of programming in Python

• Sharon Machlis

  Computerworld

  Featured at these sessions and panels:

  Free tools for data visualization and analysis

• Stephen Stirling

  The Star-Ledger

  Featured at these sessions and panels:

  Navigating the storm: Using data to bolster the traditional weather story

• Steve Doig

  Arizona State University

  Featured at these sessions and panels:

  Free tools for wrangling data, Unsession: What we should be teaching the next generation, Lockdown - Make sure your information is secure

• Ted Han

  DocumentCloud

  Featured at these sessions and panels:

  NewsCamp::Music Lessons, A day in the life of a News App: An intro to Internet infrastructure

• Thomas Hargrove

  Scripps Howard News Service

  Featured at these sessions and panels:

  Using data journalism to investigate the news

• Tom Detzel

  ProPublica

  Featured at these sessions and panels:

  Collaborating with data: Challenges and payoffs

• Tom Meagher

  The Star-Ledger

  Featured at these sessions and panels:

  Displaying data geographically with ArcView

• Tom Torok

  The New York Times

  Featured at these sessions and panels:

  PowerPivot, PowerPivot and NodeXL: This is not your father's Excel

• Tommy Kaas

  Kaas & Mulvad

  Featured at these sessions and panels:

  Why learn programming: A reporter's perspective

• Troy Thibodeaux

  The Associated Press

  Featured at these sessions and panels:

  Intro to SQLite

• Tyler Dukes

  The Reporters' Lab

  Featured at these sessions and panels:

  Reporters' Lab

• Wendell Cochran

  American University

  Featured at these sessions and panels:

  Latest trends in open records battles

• Will Sullivan

  Lee Enterprises

  Featured at these sessions and panels:

  Turning your stories into a tablet/phone app

• Yang Wang

  Houston Chronicle

  Featured at these sessions and panels:

  Mining federal contract data with the Federal Procurement Data System