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• Down and dirty with the DocumentCloud API

  Welsh talks about how the Los Angeles Times uses DocumentCloud. Learn how to use DocumentCloud's API to interact with your documents and how to update or access documents' data with scripting.

  Tags: DocumentCloud; DocumentCloud's API; documents; data; scripting

  By Ben Welsh

  2013

• Access and Influence: A guide to following the money and legislative or regulatory outcomes.

  Nixon's Powerpoint lays out how to follow the money in and out of the election season. He includes documents to use and examples of news stories.

  Tags: finance; 2012; campaign

  By Ron Nixon

  2012

• The Ask: Requesting and Negotiating For Records/Data

  A guide on how to procure the documents you need in order to launch your investigation. This step-by-step tipsheet takes you through each individual step to gaining access to government records.

  Tags: Burlington Free Press; FOI; Open Government Laws; Freedom of Information;

  By Mike Donoghue

  2012

• Welcome to the world of data:Now what do you do? (T. Thompson Powerpoint)

  Thompson gives her tips and examples on what to do after you get the data. She includes what to use Access for, what to use Excel for, what to use Google Maps for and much more.

  Tags: data sets; large data; data resources, ideas

  By Tisha Thompson

  2012

• Evaluating State Open Records Laws and Practices

  Use Ginley's Powerpoint to check up on your state's open records law and how they match up to others.

  Tags: open records; public access

  By Caitlin Ginley

  2012

• What They Know

  This Powerpoint presentation for the panel, Privacy: Where does access end? by Angwin lays out just how much can be found out about a person on the internet and how to use anonymity online.

  Tags: privacy; internet; security; personal information

  By Julia Angwin

  2012

• Fighting for records and access

  Ritvo provides resources and websites for where and how to get records you need.

  Tags: open records; FOIA; ACLU; Federal Open Government Guide

  By Elizabeth Ritvo

  2012

• Microsoft Access

  Quick tips to help with navigating Microsoft Access.

  Tags: Microsoft Access

  By Jaimi Dowdell

  2012

• Understanding error messages in Access

  When working with Access, actually reading the errors you get can help you figure out what\'s wrong. Dowdell put together a handout on the errors and what they mean.

  Tags: microsoft; access; error messages

  By Jaimi Dowdell

  2011

• Public access: It’s really quite simple

  'Give us everything we want, and we’ll all get along fine'(And other tips for winning access to public records and meetings…) Know the law, and be prepared to argue it with Miller and Ludlow's tips.

  Tags: public access; public records; government; sunshine law; FOIA

  By Alan Miller & Randy Ludlow

  2011