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Vote now for the 2016 NICAR T-shirt

February 1, 2016

NICAR received 14 submissions for its annual T-shirt contest, and voting is now open!  Voting will stay open for about one week, ending Sunday, Feb. 7 at midnight. The proposal with the most votes will be sold as a T-shirt at the upcoming CAR Conference, March 10-13 in Denver. Runners-up will be sold as laptop…

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Register for special training Wednesday at the CAR Conference

January 25, 2016

Start your 2016 CAR Conference a day early to take advantage of some special training opportunities from our partners.   Reveal/The Center for Investigative Reporting will once again offer “Techraking <=16: Bootstrapping the News,” a popular workshop that helps attendees set up their computers to take advantage of all the tools they’ll be learning about…

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Send in your entries for the 2016 NICAR T-shirt contest

January 22, 2016

NICAR will once again be selling a T-shirt in celebration of data and the people who love and care for them, which will help raise money for future NICAR training events. NICAR is currently accepting ideas and designs for T-shirts. We will accept entries up through Sunday, Jan. 31. Send official entries to shirts@ire.org. Only submissions sent to…

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NICAR Preview: Don’t miss these Sunday morning sessions

January 22, 2016

While planning your travel for NICAR16 in Denver, don’t forget about Sunday morning. In addition to a lineup of panels and hands-on classes, we’ll be offering the following special sessions: A three-hour interactive workshop with Quinn Norton. “Seeing like a network: Learning how to think about digital security” will cover what’s known as “threat modeling”…

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Tell us which hands-on classes you don’t want to miss at NICAR16

January 12, 2016

At our annual CAR Conference, we have more than 100 hands-on classes in topics ranging from introductory tutorials in data analysis to advanced sessions on programming. Most of these classes are first come, first served and tend to fill up quickly. We try to offer repeats of the most popular topics, and we’d like to…

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Sign up for mentoring at the CAR Conference in Denver

January 6, 2016

Mc Nelly Torres (left) and her mentee Taylor Bembery (right) at a conference in 2015. This program is currently full. Please sign up for the waiting list. Find your mentor for the CAR Conference in Denver and take advantage of IRE’s network of journalists, one of the largest in the country. Many experienced reporters, editors and developers are…

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Sign up for preregistration-only classes at NICAR16

December 15, 2015

Hands-on classes that require preregistration have been opened up for the 2016 CAR Conference in Denver, giving you the opportunity to guarantee your seat in several data journalism tracks taught by top reporters and editors from around the country. These classes, which include returning favorites like “PyCAR” and “Build your first news app,” fill quickly…

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2016 Tapestry Data Storytelling Conference is Now Accepting Requests for Invitation

December 4, 2015

The 4th annual Tapestry Data Storytelling Conference will be held at The Stanley Hotel in Estes Park, Colorado on Wednesday March 9th, 2016. Tapestry is an event designed to advance interactive online data storytelling, bringing together different viewpoints with the goal of generating a rich conversation about data storytelling. This one-day, invitation-only conference includes keynotes from…

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2016 CAR Conference T-shirt contest to begin in January

November 12, 2015

It’s almost time for the annual CAR Conference T-shirt contest! If you don’t have a design ready to go, don’t worry. You still have plenty of time to come up with your best data journalism one-liners, SQL puns and NICAR logo designs. The winner gets bragging rights, a free shirt and $50 in the IRE…

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