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 "visualization" ...
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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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Jigsaw
Stasko's powerpoint describes Jigsaw - a program created to "help 'investigators' explore, analyze and understand large document collections." It helps to create connections between documents that help to shape/understand the larger story. Jigsaw provides multiple visualizations for the documents, entities and their connections.
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Text Visualization
Stasko's powerpoint explores several different methods to visual text. He also discusses the use of Jigsaw (Visualization for investigative analysis across document collections)
Tags: data visualization; word cloud; jigsaw; many eyes; phrase nets; TextArc; theme river; TIARA; PaperLens;
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Data Viz for Beginners
Bhatt discusses what data visualization is; why it is important; provides links to online data viz tools and resources; and provides several links to data visualization projects.
Tags: data visualization; data viz; many eyes; wordle; google fusion tables; batchgeo; google viz; tableau public; ArcGIS; Protovis; InfoVis; Raphael
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Visualizing Text
Auvil's powerpoint explores using data for knowledge discovery/interpretation. She also explores applications for Meandre and the different visualizations it makes possible. (Meandre is a semantic-web-driven data-intensive flow execution environment.)
Tags: data; visualization; silos; mashups; dataflow executions;
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Google Fusion Tables
Google Fusion Tables is a data management web application that makes it easier to make charts and maps. It makes it possible to "host, manage, collaborate on, visualize and publish data tables online."
Tags: google; data; fusion tables; timelines; pie charts; mapping;
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TimeFlow: An Analytical timeline for reporters
TimeFlow is "a tool created by reporters....that manages chronologies and timelines." It's intended to help keep notes on long-running stories; compiling materials for disparate projects in a way that allows one to see patterns; organize/reconstruct events. This tipsheet walks one through using the program.
Tags: TimeFlow; timelines; data; organization; visualization; calendar;
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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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Free software, part deux
Fenton discusses free software available for visualization, Flash development, R for statistics, desktop GIS software, free server software and much more.
Tags: data visualization; server software; GIS; web development; open source; newsapps