Tools, Slides and Links from NICAR12

One of the most popular posts on Ricochet was the collection of dataviz tools, slides and links from last year’s NICAR conference.

It was so popular, in fact, that people have asked me to make a similar collection again. So from Feb. 23–26, I’ll be updating this post with all the great things NICARians have to share this year.

Follow #NICAR12 on Twitter for the buzz; come to this page for the goods. And if you’re attending the conference, be sure to buy a T-shirt to support IRE, the organization that puts this fantastic event together. Ben Welsh of The Los Angeles Times is taking candid photos and posting them on Flickr.

Have links from sessions you attended? Post them in comments or ping me on Twitter @MacDiva and I’ll add them to this list.

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Presentations & Tutorials

• Bringing Maps to Fruition (from Michelle Minkoff)

• Free tools for scraping data without programming (from Chris Keller and Michelle Minkoff)

• Instructions for Hands-on Web Scraping Without Programming (from Chris Keller and Michelle Minkoff)

• Locating the Story: The Latest in Online Maps and mapping links (from Ben Welsh)

• Mapping links & presentation (from David Herzog)

• Social Media Sleuthing (from Doug Haddix)

• freeDive Tips & Tricks (from the Knight Digital Media Center)

• CAR on a Shoestring (from Kevin Crowe, Patrick Sweet and Mary Jo Webster)

• Regular Expressions: An Introduction (from Kevin Crowe, Patrick Sweet and Mary Jo Webster)

• Create a moderation form using Google Forms and Fusion Tables

• Scraping with Django (from Kevin Schaul)

• How to turn PDFs into a searchable, sortable table (from Kevin Schaul)

• Get the Most Out of Fusion Tables (from Rebecca Shapley)

• Data viz in 20 minutes: jQuery DataTables (from Christopher Schnaars)

• How to set up Python in Windows 7 (from Anthony DeBarros)

• Data visualization best practices (from Kat Downs)

• NodeXL for Network analysis (from Peter Aldhous)

• Network Analysis for News (from Peter Aldhous and Peggy Heinkel-Wolfe)

• Network analysis for news (video of Peter Aldhous’s NICAR12 talk)

• How to Use Google Refine for Investigative Journalism (from Dan Nguyen)

• Mapping is for Everyone – How to make all kinds of maps (from Sharon Machlis)

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