CAR Conference: Newark

Demo Room Schedule Seth Boyden Room on the Lobby Level
Day	Time	Topic
Friday	9 a.m.	Deciphering the alphabet soup: ASP, PHP, VB, VBA, SQL. A pre-primer for the network newbie. • Joshua Tanzer, Freelance
	10:20 a.m.	The basics of CrimeStat: A free tool for ArcView to help map crime hot spots • Enric Volante, Arizona Daily Star
	11:40 a.m.	Using Python to gather congressional vote data • Derek Willis, The Washington Post
	2 p.m.	Generating stories with TRAC data • David Burnham, Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse
	3:20 p.m.	Web Scraper Plus: A simple but powerful Windows-based Web scraper • Robert Benincasa, Gannett News Service
Saturday	9 a.m.	Recapturing history: Using IPUMS to build Census tables you can't find in the library • Robert Gebeloff, The Star-Ledger
	10:20 a.m.	Text from TIFFs: Document images come to life through bulk OCR and full-text searches • Tom Torok, The New York Times
	11:40 a.m.	Creating easy forms, serving up data pages with PHP • Brian Hamman, IRE and NICAR
	2 p.m.	What IRE and NICAR can do for you • IRE and NICAR staff
	3:20 p.m.	Online mapping with ArcIMS • Ted Mellnik, The Charlotte Observer
	4:40 p.m.	Turning "dirty" text and PDFs into spreadsheets with Monarch • Paula Lavigne, The Dallas Morning News