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Help us plan the 2017 CAR Conference
We’re already gearing up for the 2017 CAR Conference in Jacksonville, Florida, and we want your input. What panels do you want to attend? What tools do you want to demo? What hands-on skills are you looking to learn, or to teach? Whether you’d like to be a speaker or not, please let us know…
Read MorePitch an idea for NICAR Commons at IRE 2016
We’re bringing the popular NICAR Commons series to the IRE Conference in New Orleans – and we want your ideas! NICAR Commons is a space for informal, conversation-driven sessions. Most importantly, each conversation is driven entirely by attendees. NICAR Commons sessions are: 1-hour long with 10-minute breaks in between. Designed for small groups: There will…
Read MoreInvestigate safety trends around college and university campuses
The most recent reports on alleged campus crime, arrests, discipline and hate crimes reported for 2014 are now available in the NICAR data library. Buy it here. What’s in it? The Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus Security Policy and Campus Crime Statistics Act is a federal law that requires colleges and universities to disclose certain timely and annual information about campus crime and security…
Read MoreIs your state keeping up with bridge repairs?
Now updated for 2015, the National Bridge Inventory database can help you assess the soundness of bridges in your area. Journalists can use the data to investigate bridges by identifying those with structural problems, or that haven’t been recently inspected. Other key fields include average daily traffic and overall sufficiency rating. The records represent information from the…
Read MoreWinning T-shirt selected for NICAR 2016
The votes are in and the 2016 NICAR T-shirt has been selected! Casey Miller of Vox Media won our annual contest with an orange and purple NICAR logo. You’ll be able to buy her design at the 2016 CAR Conference in Denver. Any extra shirts will be available for purchase online in the IRE Store.…
Read MoreVote now for the 2016 NICAR T-shirt
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…
Read MoreSend in your entries for the 2016 NICAR T-shirt contest
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…
Read MoreTell us which hands-on classes you don’t want to miss at NICAR16
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…
Read MoreSign up for preregistration-only classes at NICAR16
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…
Read MoreStanford students write a review of data tools
NICAR is adding a review of data tools to its online resources, courtesy of Stanford journalism students. Nineteen journalism and computer science students paired up in a new, 10-week data journalism class with the goal of exploring how programming techniques can assist in investigative reporting. The students analyzed documents and data in various formats, from…
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