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Patrick Sweet, a CAR reporter at the The News Journal in Wilmington, Del., and formerly at The Citizens’ Voice, shared some of his favorit sessions from the conference on his blog. Here are his thoughts on NewsCamp: Investigating text in the wild and Locating the story: The latest in mapping as well as other panels. His…
Read MoreIRE will be collecting tipsheets from the conference and storing them in the Resource Center for members to search and download. Chrys Wu, a journalist and engagement editor, is collecting online resources from the conference, as she did during the 2011 CAR Conference. Here is the beginning of her online post: One of the most popular posts…
Read MoreBy Hilary Niles@nilesmedia When you think of a company, don’t think of something with a physical presence, like a storefront or a corporate headquarters. That’s just not how companies are organized these days, said Chris Taggart of OpenCorporates.org. And in many cases, he said, there’s simply no single entity that encompasses all of a corporation’s…
Read MoreBy Hilary Niles @nilesmedia Spain is an “information black hole,” journalist Mar Cabra said during the Against All -Spanish- Odds. She and software developer David Cabo are taking suggestions on how to fix that. Among the European countries with a population more than 1 million, Cabra said, Spain is the only one not to have…
Read MoreBy Anna Boiko-Weyrauch @AnnaBoikoW It’s been nothing but unrequited love between computational linguists and journalists, until now. For years, linguists have parsed the English language by examining news articles, Associate Professor at Carnegie Mellon University, Noah Smith, said at the NewsCamp::Text as Data workshop on Thursday morning. “You may not know this,” he said, “but…
Read MoreChanges to the printed program can be downloaded here. Printed copies are available at registration. The conference web pages will be updated to note any schedule changes, as well as the confernece blog.
Read MoreThere are several ways to access the 2012 Computer-Assisted Reporting Conference schedule. The official schedule will be updated online to reflect any changes from the addendum to the printed program. There are also two options to view the schedule on mobile devices. Michelle Johnson, professor at Boston University, created a mobile app on Guidebook, which can…
Read MoreWhat’s the one activity that says St. Louis? If you said trivia, you’re correct. So we couldn’t have NICAR here without a CAR-related trivia night. Grab three or four of your closest NICARians to form a team and join us at the Hard Rock Café at 7:23 p.m. Trivia begins at 7:30 and runs until…
Read MoreBy Jaimi Dowdell and Jennifer LaFleur@jaimidowdell and @j_la28 In general, St. Louis is known for a few tasty (and not so tasty) food items: toasted ravioli, gooey butter cake, beer, other beer, Fitz’s root beer, freakishly sticky pizza cheese and Ted Drewes Frozen Custard. There’s also plenty of fine dining, microbreweries and a slew of Italian restaurants in…
Read MorePhoto credit:Missouri Botanical Gardens There’s more than flowers and sunshine at the Missouri Botanical Gardens — there’s GIS and other technology that aids the gardens in research, maintenance, education and more. Come see how this technology is being put to use with a special (free) tour just for NICAR attendees Saturday, Feb. 25 at 10 a.m. Space is…
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