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How journalists can target tablets
By Kyle Deas @KyleDeas News organizations looking to enter the mobile space are confronted with a bewildering array of formats, devices, and operating systems. In a late-day session on Thursday, Daniel Lathrop and Will Sullivan talked through some of the options and the reasons why newsrooms could take one approach or another. Lathrop is the…
Read MoreMining social networks
By Jessica Pupovac @jessicapupovac One of the best things about social media for journalists, Doug Haddix said, is that most people don’t understand what’s private and what isn’t. “Too bad for them. But good for us.” Haddix said during his presentation on social media sleuthing. Haddix, who is the Director of the Kiplinger Program in Public Affairs Journalism at Ohio State…
Read MoreCAR for the whole newsroom
By Sarah Morris @smorris198888 In Integrating CAR: Story Ideas for the Whole Newsroom, Mark Wert of The Cincinnati Enquirer and Jaimi Dowdell of IRE/NICAR gave ideas and tips relating to different beats that would require CAR skills. Some of the tips they shared included: Build your own database. Use two databases to tell a story.…
Read MoreConference schedule for mobile devices
There 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 MoreDay one addendum
Changes 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 MoreFinding sentiment in text
By 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 MoreDining in St. Louis: Getting away from the hotel
By 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 MoreJoin IRE for trivia night at Hard Rock Cafe
What’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 MoreInformation to help as you head to St. Louis
The 2012 CAR Conference begins in just a few days. Below are a few bits of information to help you prepare for this great conference! For the latest up-to-date information about panels, speakers, and special events at the conference, please visit our conference pages. Hotel InformationThe conference is taking place at the St. Louis…
Read MoreLearn about GIS at the Missouri Botanical Gardens
Photo 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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