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 "importing" ...
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Wrangling web data with Google docs: beginner course
A great lesson on how to import web data into Google Docs (now known as Google Drive),fetch external data, create scripts to schedule fetches in batches and process the data.
Tags: Data; Google Doc; scripts; data processing
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Investigating Poverty
Murphy explains why it's important to cover poverty and gives a brief history of what it entails and how the U.S. defines it.
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Policing the Police
This tipsheets lays out ten important things to keep in mind when investigating police and police corruption.
Tags: Police; policies; internal affairs; data; squad car video
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Data and Documents
Luther, one of IRE's training directors, provides this Powerpoint presentation on the importance of gathering data and documents, not only for the story you already have but for the story that's not been written yet.
Tags: FOIA; open records; data; documents; databases
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Opensecrets.org
Important tips on how to report on the candidates in the upcoming 2012 election.
Tags: Politics
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Integrating CAR
Dowdell and Wert gives advice on the importance of collecting data and the benefits of setting up independent databases, and offer tips on specific subpoints to cover under topics such as Sports, Crime/Public Safety, Education, Business, etc.
Tags: data; databases; investigative methods
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The Hidden Life of Guns
In this tipsheet, Grimaldi shares how The Washington Post reported the story, The Hidden Life of Guns, which won the 2010 IRE FOI Award. He provides a day-by-day account of the series of events the unfolded as the reporting took place. He also includes a source list of important interest groups.
Tags: firearms; weapons; NRA; ATF; gun violence; gun crimes; gun dealers
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One big-ass(arse) database – and other medical issues
"Health databases can unlock important clues about matters of life and death in your community. From identifying unsafe hospitals to detecting questionable treatments used by doctors and their escalating costs, you can write important stories that have an immediate impact and lead to lasting change."
Tags: health care; databases
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Importing HTML tables using Microsoft Excel
"Getting HTML tables into Microsoft Excel used to be labor intensive and problematic." Get tips from Nixon on how to import easily.
Tags: Excel; HTML; importing data