The IRE Resource Center is a major research library containing more than 23,250 investigative stories — both print and broadcast. Add to that more than 3,000 tipsheets from our national conferences on how to cover specific beats or do specific stories and you have a resource that no reporter or editor should be without. These stories and tipsheets are searchable online or by contacting the Resource Center directly (573-882-3364 or rescntr@ire.org) where a researcher can help you pinpoint what you need. Browse or search the tipsheet section of our library below. Logged-in members can view the tipsheets free online:
Search results for "data mining" ...
-
Mining Around the Data Globe
Learn to find international data easily and quickly with the help of this tipsheet.
Tags: International Data
-
Mining Data Around The Globe
Tags: None
-
Census Data with Tableau Public
Use the census to mine the information you need, made simpler and easier by Tableau Public.
Tags: census; tableau public
-
Schools Data with Tableau Public
Let Tableau help you create and publish new data visualizations from the schools your are investigating.
Tags: test scores; Tableau Public; data mining
-
Real Estate Data with Tableau Public
In this demo we'll create a workbook describing the real estate trends of a city or neighborhood. While we use a neighborhood in Washington, D.C. (Shaw), the techniques and dashboard could be applied anywhere with real estate data.
-
Finding and using health care data
"This tip sheet will direct you to several trustworthy databases about the quality of health care delivered by hospitals, transplant centers and nursing homes."
Tags: data-mining; health care data
-
Effective Information Mining on the Web
This tipsheet offers lesser-known tricks to getting the most out of web searches. Go \\\"beyond Google\\\" by using a variety of search engines to look for a subjects, people and public records. Williams also offers suggestions on searching databases for data and statistics.
Tags: Google; database; public records; search engine
-
Mining the web for Data and Stories
This tipsheet lists valuable online resources including searchable data; downloadable data; advanced search strategies; mapping services.
Tags: online resources; data; online data; government data; databases; FedStats; Data.gov; USASPending.gov; BRB Publications; OSHA; MSHA; FARS: Federal Railroad Administration; GIS; mapping; census; Environmental Protection Agency; Federal Aviation Administration;
-
Text Mining
Bones' tipsheet shows how he mined video for keywords used by 7 party leaders during 7 convention speakers. He used excel and access to analyze the data, and determine the words used most commonly by each of the party leaders.
Tags: text mining; computer-assisted reporting; word clouds; visualization; infographics