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:
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Creative Uses of Webscraping
Todd gives insight in the field of data scraping (programmatic extraction of human-readable output) and specifically goes into the possibilities of webscraping.
Tags: data; collection; scraping; webscraping
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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
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Public Spending Data in Tableau
With the help of Tableau Public, create and publish new data visualizations on public spending records.
Tags: tableau public; public spending; data sets
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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
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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.
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NICAR Hands-On: Census Data with Tableau Public
This tipsheet provides step-by-step instructions for visualizing census data using Tableau Public.
Tags: census data; mapping; visualization; data viz; data visualization; Tableau Public;
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Introducing Tableau Public
This tipsheet gives an overview of Tableau Public - visualization software for interactive storytelling, but without the need for programming skills.
Tags: data visualization; mapping; software
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Investigating Subprime Lending and Foreclosures: HMDA Data
Thompson describes how to use the federal Home Mortgage Disclosure Act (HMDA) database in order to investigate subprime lending in your community. She explains what fields in the database will reveal subprime lending, and how to use an "update function" to count the subprime loans and apply a demographic element. The tipsheet ends with a list of helpful sources, such as the Consumer Federation of America and the State Licensing Board.
Tags: foreclosure; subprime lending; data analysis; Microsoft Access; queries
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Welcome to the Real World: Importing, rearranging and cleaning data
Porter explains each step of cleaning data in Microsoft Access. He begins by explaining how to import delimited data. He also discusses how to split fields and parse data. Porter explains the query language for executing these commands.
Tags: SQL; Microsoft Access; database analysis; raw data
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The data's in - Now what?
Using data for a story isn't as simple as throwing a CD into a computer. To properly interview data, there are certain things Mellnik recommends doing upon receipt of the data through the completion of a project.
Tags: CAR; tables; data; fields; codes; information management; methodology; projects