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We will write working code together, break down how some of our favorite examples of D3 charts work and practice reading documentation so you can gain expertise on your own.\n\nPreregistration is required and seating is limited. Laptops will be provided for the training. \n\nWorkshop prerequisites: Attendees should have some knowledge of HTML/CSS and JavaScript. Previous D3 experience is not required.", "session_type": "Hands-on", "pre_registration": true, "skill_level": "Intermediate", "cost": "35", "sold_out": false, "start_end": [{"start_datetime": "2020-03-07T14:15:00", "end_datetime": "2020-03-07T17:45:00", "duration_hrs": 3.5}], "byo_laptop": false, "room": "Studio 9", "floor": "2nd", "speakers": [{"name": "Darla Cameron", "affiliation": "Texas Tribune", "bio": "Darla Cameron is the data visuals editor at The Texas Tribune in Austin, where she leads a team of developers at the intersection of graphics and news applications. 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We'll also talk about how to find help when you're stuck. \n\nPreregistration is required and seating is limited. Laptops will be provided for the training. \n\nWorkshop prerequisites: This session will be most helpful if you\u2019re comfortable working with data and you\u2019re ready to take your skills to the next level.", "session_type": "Hands-on", "pre_registration": true, "skill_level": "Intermediate", "cost": "35", "sold_out": false, "start_end": [{"start_datetime": "2020-03-05T14:15:00", "end_datetime": "2020-03-05T17:45:00", "duration_hrs": 3.5}], "byo_laptop": false, "room": "Studio 2", "floor": "2nd", "speakers": [{"name": "Hannah Fresques", "affiliation": "ProPublica", "bio": "Hannah Fresques is a data reporter at ProPublica. 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You must bring your own laptop (no tablets) to this training and have a Google account.\n\nWorkshop prerequisites: You should be familiar with using spreadsheets and formulas.", "session_type": "Hands-on", "pre_registration": true, "skill_level": "Beginner", "cost": "35", "sold_out": false, "start_end": [{"start_datetime": "2020-03-07T09:00:00", "end_datetime": "2020-03-07T12:30:00", "duration_hrs": 3.5}], "byo_laptop": true, "room": "Studio 1", "floor": "2nd", "speakers": [{"name": "Frank Bi", "affiliation": "Vox Media", "bio": "Frank Bi is a senior storytelling engineer at Vox Media in New York City where he works on innovative storytelling projects for the web. He also teaches data literacy and visualization at Fordham University and is a Google News Initiative trainer, teaching journalists in newsrooms and at conferences across the country how to use free journalism tools. 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Along the way, we\u2019ll focus on the tools, workflows and best practices to help you transform public data into compelling maps and narrative stories. This workshop will specifically address:\n\n* Creating interactive maps directly within Excel from a spreadsheet of public data with ArcGIS Maps for Office\n* Publishing spreadsheet data as an interactive layer\n* Styling and configuring interactive maps with ArcGIS Online\n* Filtering, analyzing, aggregating and enriching geospatial data\n* Performing on-the-fly calculations and customization with Arcade scripts\n* Finding and using authoritative data from the Living Atlas\n* Creating interactive maps that fuse narrative elements and maps using ArcGIS StoryMaps\n \nPreregistration is required and seating is limited. Laptops will be provided for the training. 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Laptops will be provided.\n\nPrerequisites: If you've tried Python once or twice, have good attitude and know how to take a few code crashes in stride, you are qualified. We want you.", "session_type": "Hands-on", "pre_registration": true, "skill_level": "Intermediate", "cost": "70", "sold_out": false, "start_end": [{"start_datetime": "2020-03-06T09:00:00", "end_datetime": "2020-03-06T17:45:00", "duration_hrs": 8.75}], "byo_laptop": false, "room": "Studio 6", "floor": "2nd", "speakers": [{"name": "James Gordon", "affiliation": "Reynolds Journalism Institute/Unversity of Missouri", "bio": "James is a designer and developer at the Reynolds Journalism Institute. He also teaches data journalism at the Missouri School of Journalism. 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He is also a co-founder of the California Civic Data Coalition, a network of journalists and computer programmers dedicated to opening up public data, and the leader of PastPages, an open-source effort to better archive digital news.", "twitter_handle": "palewire"}], "keywords": ["first", "python", "notebook:", "data", "analysis", "on", "deadline", "hands-on", "data", "analysis", "python", "intermediate", "james gordon", "cheryl phillips", "andrea suozzo", "ben welsh"], "keywords_display": ["data analysis", "python"], "multiday": false}, {"session_id": "1006", "slug": "20200306_digging_into_data_for_stories_a_crash_course_in_excel_1006", "session_title": "Digging into data for stories: A crash course in Excel", "canceled": false, "session_description": "Get started using data in your stories with IRE's original mini-boot camp. In this 7-hour, hands-on workshop, IRE\u2019s experienced trainers will start with the basics of navigating Excel and using formulas, then walk you through sorting, filtering and aggregating data with pivot tables to find story ideas.\n\nYou'll come away with a solid base for using data analysis in your newsroom, including how to find and request data, identify and clean dirty data, find story ideas and bulletproof your work. \n\nWe\u2019ll also provide you with our detailed boot camp materials to help keep you on track long after you leave the conference. \n\nPreregistration is required and seating is limited. Laptops will be provided for the training.\n\n\nWorkshop prerequisites: There are no prerequisites for this workshop and beginners are welcome. This workshop is good for those wanting to get started analyzing data for stories.", "session_type": "Hands-on", "pre_registration": true, "skill_level": "Beginner", "cost": "70", "sold_out": false, "start_end": [{"start_datetime": "2020-03-06T09:00:00", "end_datetime": "2020-03-06T12:30:00", "duration_hrs": 3.5}, {"start_datetime": "2020-03-07T09:00:00", "end_datetime": "2020-03-07T12:30:00", "duration_hrs": 3.5}], "byo_laptop": false, "room": "Studio 2", "floor": "2nd", "speakers": [{"name": "Patti DiVincenzo", "affiliation": "IRE & NICAR", "bio": "Patti DiVincenzo is a training director at IRE. She spent more than three decades working in TV stations across the country, starting in Topeka, Kansas, and eventually landing at WSB-TV in Atlanta, where she was an investigative producer and data specialist for 16 years. A longtime member of IRE, she joined the staff in February 2019.", "twitter_handle": null}, {"name": "Sarah Hutchins", "affiliation": "IRE & NICAR", "bio": "Sarah Hutchins is a training director for IRE & NICAR. She previously served as the organization\u2019s editorial director, overseeing IRE\u2019s publications and online platforms. Sarah has worked for daily newspapers in several states. Before joining IRE in 2014, she was a reporter at The Virginian-Pilot. Sarah has a bachelor's degree in journalism from Indiana University and a master's degree in data science and analytics from the University of Missouri.", "twitter_handle": "sarhutch"}, {"name": "Francisco Vara-Orta", "affiliation": "IRE & NICAR", "bio": "Francisco Vara-Orta is a training director at Investigative Reporters & Editors. He brings nearly 20 years of newsroom experience and has been published by a variety of news organizations, including Chalkbeat, Education Week, the San Antonio Express-News, Austin Business Journal, Los Angeles Business Journal and the Los Angeles Times. 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We'll cover string functions, logical functions, date functions, reshaping data, merging data using lookup functions and perhaps a few other nifty tricks if time allows. We\u2019ll do some \u201cdrills\u201d introducing you to these concepts, then put your new skills to work in a sort of \u201cscrimmage,\u201d fixing up some real-life data. You\u2019ll also walk out with practice data and a 30-page tipsheet that covers, in detail, everything from the class, plus more that we won\u2019t have time for.\n\nPreregistration is required and seating is limited. Laptops will be provided for the training. \n\nWorkshop prerequisites: You should have prior experience using Excel or Google Sheets, and be comfortable with introductory-level spreadsheet skills, such as sorting, filtering, SUM and AVERAGE functions, calculations such as percentage change or percent of total, and how to use pivot tables.", "session_type": "Hands-on", "pre_registration": true, "skill_level": "Intermediate", "cost": "35", "sold_out": false, "start_end": [{"start_datetime": "2020-03-05T09:00:00", "end_datetime": "2020-03-05T12:30:00", "duration_hrs": 3.5}], "byo_laptop": false, "room": "Studio 2", "floor": "2nd", "speakers": [{"name": "MaryJo Webster", "affiliation": "The Star Tribune", "bio": "MaryJo has been data editor at The Star Tribune in Minneapolis for five years. Previously, she had stints with the St. Paul Pioneer Press, USA Today, Digital First Media and Investigative Reporters & Editors. She started her career as a reporter at small papers in Minnesota and Wisconsin.", "twitter_handle": "MaryJoWebster"}], "keywords": ["upping", "your", "excel", "game", "hands-on", "data", "wrangling", "excel", "intermediate", "maryjo webster"], "keywords_display": ["data wrangling", "excel"], "multiday": false}, {"session_id": "1009", "slug": "20200307_exploring_the_tidyverse_in_r_1009", "session_title": "Exploring the tidyverse in R", "canceled": false, "session_description": "Learn how to use the tidyverse, a collection of R packages, to help you make your data journalism more efficient, stronger and more fun. Learn how to import, clean, analyze and plot data for your stories. If you want to modernize your R workflow with dplyr, tidyr, readr, ggplot2, tibble and purr, this class is for you. This workshop assumes some familiarity with R and RStudio, or programming experience in another language (e.g., Python or JavaScript), but will start from the beginning with tidyverse principles. \n\nPreregistration is required and seating is limited. Laptops will be provided for the training. \n\nWorkshop prerequisites: You should be comfortable working with R and RStudio and be familiar with basic data analysis.", "session_type": "Hands-on", "pre_registration": true, "skill_level": "Advanced", "cost": "70", "sold_out": false, "start_end": [{"start_datetime": "2020-03-07T09:00:00", "end_datetime": "2020-03-07T17:45:00", "duration_hrs": 8.75}], "byo_laptop": false, "room": "Studio 7", "floor": "2nd", "speakers": [{"name": "Aaron Kessler", "affiliation": "Bloomberg Industry Group", "bio": "Aaron Kessler specializes in investigative reporting and data analysis at the intersection of business and politics. He's currently on the investigative team at Bloomberg Industry Group, pursuing projects tied to the executive agencies, Congress and the corporate world. He's a Mizzou alumnus who got his start covering city hall for the Joplin Globe and has worked at CNN, the Sarasota Herald-Tribune and wrote about the auto industry for the New York Times.", "twitter_handle": "akesslerdc"}, {"name": "Amelia McNamara", "affiliation": "University of St. Thomas", "bio": "Dr. McNamara is an assistant professor of statistics in the Department of Computer Science at the University of St. Thomas in Minnesota. She is interested in how journalists use tools to work with data.", "twitter_handle": "AmeliaMN"}], "keywords": ["exploring", "the", "tidyverse", "in", "r", "hands-on", "data", "analysis", "TheRProgrammingLanguage", "advanced", "aaron kessler", "amelia mcnamara"], "keywords_display": ["data analysis", "r"], "multiday": false}, {"session_id": "1010", "slug": "20200306_write_better_python_code_1010", "session_title": "Write better Python code", "canceled": false, "session_description": "You\u2019ve written a few Python scripts that get the job done, but the initial euphoria has worn off. Your code is hard to read. Bugs are cropping up. And you can\u2019t always explain your process or results to an editor \u2014 or yourself. There must be a better way, but the path forward is not clear.\n\nIf you\u2019ve had that itchy feeling, this three-hour, hands-on workshop is for you. This class will explore Python language features that will help you write readable, reliable and reusable code.\n\nPreregistration is required and seating is limited. Attendees must bring a laptop and charger to the training.\n\nWorkshop prerequisites: Experience with basic Python language features like variables, data types, conditionals and functions are required.", "session_type": "Hands-on", "pre_registration": true, "skill_level": "Advanced", "cost": "35", "sold_out": false, "start_end": [{"start_datetime": "2020-03-06T14:15:00", "end_datetime": "2020-03-06T17:45:00", "duration_hrs": 3.5}], "byo_laptop": false, "room": "Studio 9", "floor": "2nd", "speakers": [{"name": "Serdar Tumgoren", "affiliation": "Stanford University", "bio": "Serdar Tumgoren teaches data journalism at Stanford University. He previously worked on data and news apps teams at The Associated Press, The Washington Post and Congressional Quarterly.", "twitter_handle": "zstumgoren"}], "keywords": ["write", "better", "python", "code", "hands-on", "work", "better", "python", "advanced", "serdar tumgoren"], "keywords_display": ["work better", "python"], "multiday": false}, {"session_id": "1011", "slug": "20200307_first_graphics_app_nodejs_in_the_newsroom_1011", "session_title": "First graphics app: Node.js in the newsroom", "canceled": false, "session_description": "Armand Emamdjomeh, Elbert Wang and Ben Welsh teach you how America\u2019s top news organizations escape rigid content-management systems to publish custom graphics on deadline. \n\nTake this six-hour class to get hands-on experience in every stage of the development process, writing JavaScript, HTML and CSS within a Node.js framework. You\u2019ll start with data from a real-life Los Angeles Times analysis. You won\u2019t stop until you\u2019ve crafted a custom presentation and deployed a working application on the World Wide Web.\n\nPreregistration is required and seating is limited. Laptops will be provided.\n\nWorkshop prerequisites: If you have a good attitude and know how to take a few code crashes in stride, you are qualified for this class. If you\u2019re a little scared, that\u2019s a good thing. You\u2019re ready for this.", "session_type": "Hands-on", "pre_registration": true, "skill_level": "Advanced", "cost": "70", "sold_out": false, "start_end": [{"start_datetime": "2020-03-07T09:00:00", "end_datetime": "2020-03-07T17:45:00", "duration_hrs": 8.75}], "byo_laptop": false, "room": "Studio 3", "floor": "2nd", "speakers": [{"name": "Elbert Wang", "affiliation": "The Wall Street Journal", "bio": "Elbert is a graphics reporter at The Wall Street Journal on the U.S. news desk. Previously, he was a fellow on the data visuals team at the Texas Tribune and an intern on the interactives team at the San Francisco Chronicle. He is a graduate of Brown University, where he studied computer science and classics.", "twitter_handle": "elbertwang1"}, {"name": "Ben Welsh", "affiliation": "Los Angeles Times", "bio": "Ben is the editor of the Data and Graphics Department in the Los Angeles Times newsroom. The team of reporters and computer programmers works together to collect, organize, analyze and present large amounts of information. He is also a co-founder of the California Civic Data Coalition, a network of journalists and computer programmers dedicated to opening up public data, and the leader of PastPages, an open-source effort to better archive digital news.", "twitter_handle": "palewire"}], "keywords": ["first", "graphics", "app:", "node.js", "in", "the", "newsroom", "hands-on", "programming", "javascript", "advanced", "elbert wang", "ben welsh"], "keywords_display": ["programming", "javascript"], "multiday": false}, {"session_id": "1012", "slug": "20200307_web_scraping_with_python_1012", "session_title": "Web scraping with Python", "canceled": false, "session_description": "If you need data that's trapped on a website, writing some code to scrape the page could be your solution. This entry-level class will show you how to use the Python programming language to harvest information from websites into a spreadsheet. We'll introduce you to the command line and show you how to write enough code to fetch and parse web content. \n\nPreregistration is required and seating is limited. Laptops will be provided.\n\nWorkshop prerequisites: This class is programming for beginners. Some basic familiarity with Python and HTML is helpful but not required.", "session_type": "Hands-on", "pre_registration": true, "skill_level": "Intermediate", "cost": "35", "sold_out": true, "start_end": [{"start_datetime": "2020-03-07T09:00:00", "end_datetime": "2020-03-07T12:30:00", "duration_hrs": 3.5}], "byo_laptop": false, "room": "Studio 9", "floor": "2nd", "speakers": [{"name": "Cody Winchester", "affiliation": "IRE & NICAR", "bio": "Cody is a training director at Investigative Reporters & Editors. 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Using nothing but your web browser, you will sketch, refine and publish an interactive graphic like one that appeared in The New York Times. Along the way, you\u2019ll see how Observable\u2019s groundbreaking approach to coding can help you be more creative, ambitious and efficient.\n\nPreregistration is required and seating is limited. Laptops will be provided. \n\nWorkshop prerequisites: If you\u2019ve used JavaScript once or twice, have a good attitude and know how to take a few code crashes in stride, you are qualified for this class. If you\u2019re suspicious and think we might be Internet hipsters, we welcome the challenge of winning you over. This stuff is cool.", "session_type": "Hands-on", "pre_registration": true, "skill_level": "Advanced", "cost": "35", "sold_out": false, "start_end": [{"start_datetime": "2020-03-05T14:15:00", "end_datetime": "2020-03-05T17:45:00", "duration_hrs": 3.5}], "byo_laptop": false, "room": "Studio 3", "floor": "2nd", "speakers": [{"name": "Alex Garcia", "affiliation": "University of California San Diego", "bio": "Alex Garcia is a recent graduate from the University of California, San Diego, where he studied computer engineering, and a soon-to-be software engineer. He is interested in data pipelines, newsroom tools, Observable notebooks and algorithmic bias.", "twitter_handle": "agarcia_me"}, {"name": "Ellis Simani", "affiliation": "ProPublica", "bio": "Ellis Simani is a data reporter who was a Metpro fellow on the L.A. Times graphics desk before joining ProPublica. 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Two veteran editors, Jennifer LaFleur of The Investigative Reporting Workshop and Maud Beelman of the Howard Center for Investigative Journalism at Arizona State University, will guide you through the ins and outs of data journalism from an editor\u2019s point of view, including:\n\n* How to help reporters find focus for their data stories\n* Being skeptical of data and finding potential pitfalls\n* Verifying analyses and bulletproofing data stories and apps\n* Using data to find human sources and characters for stories\n* Planning the best data workflows for your newsroom\n\nNo data experience is necessary for this workshop. Editors/producers and those interested in newsroom management are welcome. 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She is an Alicia Patterson Foundation fellow and serves on its board of directors.", "twitter_handle": "maudbeelman"}, {"name": "Jennifer LaFleur", "affiliation": "Investigative Reporting Workshop", "bio": "Jennifer LaFleur is the Investigative Reporting Workshop's data editor and teaches at American University. She previously was a senior editor at Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting, where she managed a team of data journalists, investigative reporters and fellows. She is the former data journalism director at ProPublica and has held similar roles at newspapers. 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This class, taught by two veteran political reporters, will help you gear up for Election 2020 coverage at any level of government, including: \n\n* Tools and strategies for campaign finance data, from local to federal candidates\n* Following the money and the messaging from campaigns\n* Tracking the players beyond candidates, from super PACs to special interests and nonprofits\n* Story ideas to help you plan election coverage for your newsroom\n\nNo previous data experience is necessary for this workshop, though familiarity with spreadsheets will help. Please bring your own laptop.", "session_type": "Master Class", "pre_registration": false, "skill_level": "General interest", "cost": "35", "sold_out": false, "start_end": [{"start_datetime": "2020-03-06T09:00:00", "end_datetime": "2020-03-06T12:30:00", "duration_hrs": 3.5}], "byo_laptop": false, "room": "Galerie 5", "floor": "2nd", "speakers": [{"name": "Carrie Levine", "affiliation": "Center for Public Integrity", "bio": "Carrie Levine investigates the influence of money in politics. She was previously research director at Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, a reporter and associate editor for The National Law Journal, and she has also worked for the Charlotte Observer, the Patriot Ledger of Quincy, Mass., and The Sun (Lowell, Mass.). She is a graduate of Boston University and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.", "twitter_handle": "levinecarrie"}, {"name": "Derek Willis", "affiliation": "ProPublica", "bio": "Derek Willis is a news applications developer at ProPublica, focusing on politics and elections. He previously worked as a developer and reporter at The New York Times, a database editor at The Washington Post, and in roles at the Center for Public Integrity and Congressional Quarterly. He began his journalism career at The Palm Beach Post. He is a co-founder of OpenElections, a project to collect and publish election results from all 50 states.", "twitter_handle": null}], "keywords": ["master", "class:", "election", "2020", "data", "master", "class", "election", "&", "politics", "general interest", "election", "carrie levine", "derek willis"], "keywords_display": ["election & politics", "election"], "multiday": false}, {"session_id": "1018", "slug": "20200307_master_class_interviewing_1018", "session_title": "CANCELED - Master class: Interviewing", "canceled": true, "session_description": "Learn how to master the interview to hold your sources accountable. This workshop will move from getting the interview, to conducting the interview, to capitalizing on the interview when it\u2019s time to write. \n\nThis master class by investigative reporters Monica Rhor and Audra Burch is designed to teach you:\n\n* how \u2014 and when \u2014 to land a tough interview\n* how to prepare before an interview and also adapt on the spot\n* the power of silence\n* the power of sincerity\n* interviewing people who have been hurt, and interviewing the people who hurt them", "session_type": "Master Class", "pre_registration": false, "skill_level": "General interest", "cost": "35", "sold_out": false, "start_end": [{"start_datetime": "2020-03-07T14:15:00", "end_datetime": "2020-03-07T17:45:00", "duration_hrs": 3.5}], "byo_laptop": false, "room": "Galerie 5", "floor": "2nd", "speakers": [], "keywords": ["canceled", "-", "master", "class:", "interviewing", "master", "class", "writing", "&", "storytelling", "general interest"], "keywords_display": ["writing & storytelling"], "multiday": false}, {"session_id": "1019", "slug": "20200306_master_class_writing_the_investigative_narrative_friday_afternoon_1019", "session_title": "Master class: Writing the investigative narrative (Friday afternoon)", "canceled": false, "session_description": "You\u2019ve gathered data, docs and human sources. Now it\u2019s time to turn your reporting into a story -- or a series -- that packs a punch. If you\u2019re new to investigative storytelling or want to up your writing game, this workshop is for you.\n\nVeteran editor Maria Carrillo has led some of the best narrative teams in the country. In this half-day workshop, she\u2019ll cover the entire story lifecycle, from reporting to writing to planning for publication. Topics include:\n\n* Understanding narrative\n* Reporting for story -- How to gather the details and scenes that will give your piece emotional power\n* Focus and framing \u2013 Finding your way through all that material\n* Self-editing tips and techniques\n* Developing a story team -- How to get photographers, artists, designers, digital producers and editors unified behind a common vision\n \nWe\u2019ll look at examples of successful stories, pulling back the curtain to see how they came together.", "session_type": "Master Class", "pre_registration": false, "skill_level": "General interest", "cost": "35", "sold_out": false, "start_end": [{"start_datetime": "2020-03-06T14:15:00", "end_datetime": "2020-03-06T17:45:00", "duration_hrs": 3.5}], "byo_laptop": false, "room": "Galerie 5", "floor": "2nd", "speakers": [{"name": "Maria Carrillo", "affiliation": "Tampa Bay Times", "bio": "Maria Carrillo is deputy editor/enterprise at the Tampa Bay Times, where she oversees a team of reporters and works with journalists across the newsroom on ambitious stories. She was previously enterprise editor at the Houston Chronicle and managing editor at The Virginian-Pilot. She has overseen numerous award-winnings projects, frequently lectures on narrative journalism and has been a Pulitzer Prize juror four times.\n", "twitter_handle": "havana58"}], "keywords": ["master", "class:", "writing", "the", "investigative", "narrative", "(friday", "afternoon)", "master", "class", "writing", "&", "storytelling", "general interest", "maria carrillo"], "keywords_display": ["writing & storytelling"], "multiday": false}, {"session_id": "1020", "slug": "20200307_master_class_finding_and_telling_stories_with_earth_imagery_1020", "session_title": "Master class: Finding and telling stories with earth imagery", "canceled": false, "session_description": "Satellites, planes, drones \u2014 thanks to these and other planetary-sensors, we know more about our earth, its oceans, landscapes and cityscapes than ever before. With heaps of new data and tools at our disposal, journalists are among the many people accessing this wellspring of source data and using it to show changes at global and local scales at an ever-increasing rate, from the disappearing polar ice caps to monitoring local port shipments.\n\nThis workshop will provide an introduction to practical geographic journalism through concrete case studies. It will then offer tools and skills that can help you start infusing earth imagery into your stories. You will leave this workshop with a new way of thinking about earth imagery and how to use it.\n\nPrerequisites: There are no prerequisites but it would be helpful to have some experience with QGIS, bash (imagemagick, ffmpeg, gdal), and Photoshop.", "session_type": "Master Class", "pre_registration": false, "skill_level": "Intermediate", "cost": "35", "sold_out": false, "start_end": [{"start_datetime": "2020-03-07T09:00:00", "end_datetime": "2020-03-07T12:30:00", "duration_hrs": 3.5}], "byo_laptop": false, "room": "Galerie 5", "floor": "2nd", "speakers": [{"name": "Tim Wallace", "affiliation": "Descartes Labs", "bio": "Tim Wallace is a geographer and visual journalist at Descartes Labs in Santa Fe, New Mexico. He has a PhD in geography from The University of Wisconsin-Madison and was a recently a graphics editor at The New York Times, where he created visual stories on neighborhoods, cities, regions and the world with information gathered from land, sky and space.", "twitter_handle": "wallacetim"}], "keywords": ["master", "class:", "finding", "and", "telling", "stories", "with", "earth", "imagery", "master", "class", "mapping", "intermediate", "tim wallace"], "keywords_display": ["mapping"], "multiday": false}, {"session_id": "1021", "slug": "20200305_master_class_statistics_for_journalists_1021", "session_title": "Master class: Statistics for journalists", "canceled": false, "session_description": "Statistical methods can help you go beyond counting, sorting and filtering data to look at relationships, make predictions and level the playing fields. Statistical analyses can provide hard evidence to back up (or discredit) a theory. This master class will help you understand the concepts and methods most often used by journalists, including:\n\n* Linear regression\n* Correlation\n* Statistical significance\n* Describing and visualizing your data\n\nThis master class is aimed at those already familiar with basic data analysis using spreadsheets and ready to add statistical analysis to their toolkits. \n\nPlease bring your laptop to the training. Before the conference, please install R and R Studio (free, open-source software) on your computers.", "session_type": "Master Class", "pre_registration": false, "skill_level": "Intermediate", "cost": "35", "sold_out": false, "start_end": [{"start_datetime": "2020-03-05T14:15:00", "end_datetime": "2020-03-05T17:45:00", "duration_hrs": 3.5}], "byo_laptop": false, "room": "Galerie 5", "floor": "2nd", "speakers": [{"name": "Steve Doig", "affiliation": "Arizona State University", "bio": "Steve Doig teaches data journalism at the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism of Arizona State University (ASU). Before joining ASU in 1996, he was research editor of the Miami Herald, where he worked for 20 years. Various data projects on which he worked at the Herald and at ASU have won the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service, the IRE Award, the Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting, the George Polk Award and other recognition.", "twitter_handle": null}, {"name": "Holly Hacker", "affiliation": "The Dallas Morning News", "bio": "Holly Hacker is an investigative reporter at The Dallas Morning News. Before that, she covered education at The News, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and the Ventura County (California) Star. She's a past winner of the Philip Meyer Award for stories that exposed cheating on standardized tests in Texas.", "twitter_handle": "hollyhacker"}], "keywords": ["master", "class:", "statistics", "for", "journalists", "master", "class", "statistics", "intermediate", "steve doig", "holly hacker"], "keywords_display": ["statistics"], "multiday": false}, {"session_id": "1023", "slug": "20200307_educators_meetup_1023", "session_title": "Educators meetup", "canceled": false, "session_description": "If you teach data journalism, investigative reporting or any journalism course, join your fellow instructors for a discussion about what works, what doesn\u2019t, and what\u2019s new in the classroom. 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Horvit worked as a reporter and editor for 20 years before joining IRE.", "twitter_handle": null}, {"name": "Brant Houston", "affiliation": "University of Illinois", "bio": "Brant Houston is the Knight Chair in Investigative Reporting at the University of Illinois. Before Illinois he was executive director of IRE for more than a decade after 17 years as an award-winning investigative reporter in U.S. newsrooms. He is author of  \"Data for Journalists: A Practical Guide to Computer-Assisted Reporting\" and co-author of \"The Investigative Reporter's Handbook.\" He works with nonprofit newsrooms and co-founded INN and GIJN.", "twitter_handle": "branthouston"}], "keywords": ["educators", "meetup", "commons", "education", "general interest", "mark horvit", "brant houston"], "keywords_display": ["education"], "multiday": false}, {"session_id": "1025", "slug": "20200305_journalists_of_color_in_the_newsroom_meetup_1025", "session_title": "Journalists of color in the newsroom meetup", "canceled": false, "session_description": "Grab some lunch and join other journalists of color for a networking and discussion session. 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It's not always clear what professional options may be available, or how you might go about growing into new opportunities. \n\nIn this session, we'll hear from a newspaper reporter whose focus on data eventually took them into academia, a designer/developer/journalist who ended up moving into leadership to help bring together her newsroom's visual storytelling departments, as well as a veteran TV journalist who forged her own path when there wasn't a data job in the newsroom.", "session_type": "Panel", "pre_registration": false, "skill_level": "General interest", "cost": "", "sold_out": false, "start_end": [{"start_datetime": "2020-03-06T14:15:00", "end_datetime": "2020-03-06T15:15:00", "duration_hrs": 1.0}], "byo_laptop": false, "room": "Bissonet", "floor": "3rd", "speakers": [{"name": "Patti DiVincenzo", "affiliation": "IRE & NICAR", "bio": "Patti DiVincenzo is a training director at IRE. 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He's a former training director at Investigative Reporters & Editors, and he has previously worked as a reporter and editor at the Chicago Tribune, NerdWallet, The Chronicle of Higher Education and the Las Vegas Sun, where he was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 2011 and shared the Goldsmith Prize for investigative reporting.", "twitter_handle": "alexrichards"}, {"name": "Sisi Wei", "affiliation": "OpenNews", "bio": "Sisi Wei is the director of programs at OpenNews, where she envisions and executes transformative initiatives for journalism, especially for journalists of color and local journalists. Previously, she was assistant managing editor at ProPublica, where she oversaw and edited news apps, graphics, visual reporting and investigations.", "twitter_handle": null}], "keywords": ["career", "paths", "in", "data", "journalism", "panel", "career", "general interest", "patti divincenzo", "alex richards", "sisi wei"], "keywords_display": ["career"], "multiday": false}, {"session_id": "1027", "slug": "20200306_media_lawyers_qa_1027", "session_title": "Media lawyers Q&A", "canceled": false, "session_description": "Does your investigation contain complex legal questions? Unsure of how to proceed? Bring your lunch and your questions for a personal discussion with some prominent media law experts. We'll provide drinks and dessert.", "session_type": "Special", "pre_registration": false, "skill_level": "General interest", "cost": "", "sold_out": false, "start_end": [{"start_datetime": "2020-03-06T12:45:00", "end_datetime": "2020-03-06T13:45:00", "duration_hrs": 1.0}], "byo_laptop": false, "room": "Galerie 2", "floor": "2nd", "speakers": [{"name": "Maggie Mulvihill", "affiliation": "Boston University", "bio": "Maggie Mulvihill\u2019s data journalism students have been honored with 10 regional or national awards since 2011, as well as being named finalists for the prestigious Livingston Award for Young Journalists. An attorney, Maggie serves on the steering committee of the Reporter's Committee for Freedom of the Press and the board of the New England First Amendment Coalition. She is a co-founder of the New England Center for Investigative Reporting and a former Nieman Fellow.", "twitter_handle": null}, {"name": "Scott Sternberg", "affiliation": "Sternberg, Naccari & White LLC", "bio": "Scott Sternberg of Sternberg, Naccari & White LLC is counsel to the Louisiana Press Association and numerous Louisiana media organizations, including The Advocate/The Times-Picayune, The Lens, WVUE and WAFB. His statewide practice involves public records, open meetings, libel and privacy defense. He has taught at Louisiana State University and Loyola University New Orleans. The remainder of his practice is high-profile and business litigation.", "twitter_handle": "ScottLSternberg"}, {"name": "Matthew Topic", "affiliation": "Loevy & Loevy", "bio": "Matt Topic leads Loevy & Loevy\u2019s Freedom of Information Act practice. Among the media cases he has handled around the country, Matt has litigated hundreds of state and federal FOIA cases, often at reduced or no cost to clients, including the release of the the Laquan McDonald shooting video in Chicago; records from the Mueller investigation; Rahm Emanuel\u2019s \u201cprivate emails\u201d about public business; and FBI records that helped lead to the exoneration of an innocent man.", "twitter_handle": null}, {"name": "Katie Townsend", "affiliation": "Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press", "bio": "", "twitter_handle": ""}], "keywords": ["media", "lawyers", "q&a", "special", "media", "law", "general interest", "maggie mulvihill", "scott sternberg", "matthew topic", "katie townsend"], "keywords_display": ["media law"], "multiday": false}, {"session_id": "1028", "slug": "20200306_victims_villians_and_heroes_turning_data_into_characters_1028", "session_title": "Victims, villains and heroes: Turning data into characters", "canceled": false, "session_description": "Data helps bolster our investigations and find the right anecdotes through which to tell them. 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We\u2019ll learn how to slice and dice our data and extract basic stats. Specifically, we\u2019ll cover loading the data, filtering, sorting and grouping data. \n\nThis class is good for: People who are comfortable with Excel and are familiar with the basics of SQL and Python.", "session_type": "Hands-on", "pre_registration": false, "skill_level": "Advanced", "cost": "", "sold_out": false, "start_end": [{"start_datetime": "2020-03-08T10:15:00", "end_datetime": "2020-03-08T11:15:00", "duration_hrs": 1.0}], "byo_laptop": false, "room": "Studio 6", "floor": "2nd", "speakers": [{"name": "Sandra Fish", "affiliation": "Independent journalist", "bio": "Sandra Fish is a Colorado data journalist specializing in politics. She's done work for the Colorado Sun, Colorado Independent, OpenSecrets, ESPN, Colorado Public Radio and others. 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Then we\u2019ll jump into the fun part: visualizing the data you\u2019ve analyzed with Matplotlib.\n\nThis session is good for: People who can load and perform basic summary and grouping functions in Pandas.", "session_type": "Hands-on", "pre_registration": false, "skill_level": "Advanced", "cost": "", "sold_out": false, "start_end": [{"start_datetime": "2020-03-08T11:30:00", "end_datetime": "2020-03-08T12:30:00", "duration_hrs": 1.0}], "byo_laptop": false, "room": "Studio 6", "floor": "2nd", "speakers": [{"name": "Michael Corey", "affiliation": "The Star Tribune", "bio": "A news developer at the Star Tribune in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Past lives at Reveal and the Des Moines Register. Analog/digital synthesizer. 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Experience with HTML is a plus but not necessary.\n\nNote: It would be useful to attend the demo session \"How the internet works (so you can scrape the web!)\" at 9 a.m. Thursday if you\u2019re not familiar with the topic already.", "session_type": "Hands-on", "pre_registration": false, "skill_level": "Advanced", "cost": "", "sold_out": false, "start_end": [{"start_datetime": "2020-03-05T11:30:00", "end_datetime": "2020-03-05T12:30:00", "duration_hrs": 1.0}], "byo_laptop": false, "room": "Studio 9", "floor": "2nd", "speakers": [{"name": "Ryan Pitts", "affiliation": "OpenNews", "bio": "Ryan Pitts is a developer and journalist in Spokane, Washington. He's the program lead for technology with OpenNews, a nonprofit organization that helps newsroom developers, designers and data analysts collaborate and share knowledge that builds stronger, more inclusive practices in journalism. He's also part of Census Reporter, which makes census data easier for journalists to use, and he was the senior editor for digital media at The Spokesman-Review in Spokane.", "twitter_handle": null}], "keywords": ["python:", "let's", "scrape", "a", "website", "hands-on", "web", "scraping", "python", "advanced", "ryan pitts"], "keywords_display": ["web scraping", "python"], "multiday": false}, {"session_id": "1106", "slug": "20200308_python_lets_scrape_a_website_repeat_1106", "session_title": "Python: Let's scrape a website (repeat)", "canceled": false, "session_description": "This session will show you how to use the Python programming language to scrape data from websites.\n\nThis session is good for: People who already feel comfortable writing simple Python scripts and understand basic syntax (data types, if/else statements, for loops, etc.). Experience with HTML is a plus but not necessary.\n\nNote: It would be useful to attend the demo session \"How the internet works (so you can scrape the web!)\" at 9 a.m. Thursday if you\u2019re not familiar with the topic already.", "session_type": "Hands-on", "pre_registration": false, "skill_level": "Advanced", "cost": "", "sold_out": false, "start_end": [{"start_datetime": "2020-03-08T10:15:00", "end_datetime": "2020-03-08T11:15:00", "duration_hrs": 1.0}], "byo_laptop": false, "room": "Studio 9", "floor": "2nd", "speakers": [{"name": "Matt Wynn", "affiliation": "USA Today", "bio": "Matt Wynn is data reporter on USA Today's investigative team. His work has looked at copycat legislation, police and doctors who escape discipline and the medicalization of previously benign inconveniences. He is the former director of enterprise and investigations at Medpage Today and previously worked at the Omaha World-Herald.", "twitter_handle": null}], "keywords": ["python:", "let's", "scrape", "a", "website", "(repeat)", "hands-on", "web", "scraping", "python", "advanced", "matt wynn"], "keywords_display": ["web scraping", "python"], "multiday": false}, {"session_id": "1107", "slug": "20200305_google_sheets_scraping_without_coding_1107", "session_title": "Google Sheets: Scraping without coding", "canceled": false, "session_description": "Yes, you can scrape data without using code -- in fact, all you need is Google Sheets! We'll be using Excel-type formulas (don't worry if you don't know what those are, either) to make simple scrapers that automatically pull data into Google Sheets. It\u2019s the best way to get around clunky websites and unhelpful PIOs!\n\nThis session is good for: Beginners who want to start using data for their stories.", "session_type": "Hands-on", "pre_registration": false, "skill_level": "Beginner", "cost": "", "sold_out": false, "start_end": [{"start_datetime": "2020-03-05T11:30:00", "end_datetime": "2020-03-05T12:30:00", "duration_hrs": 1.0}], "byo_laptop": true, "room": "Studio 1", "floor": "2nd", "speakers": [{"name": "Samantha Sunne", "affiliation": "Independent journalist", "bio": "Samantha Sunne is a freelance journalist based in New Orleans. She speaks at conferences, universities and newsrooms around the world, teaching digital tools and tech literacy for journalists. Her work has been published by the Washington Post, NPR and Reuters, and recommended by the Poynter Institute and the Harvard Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy.", "twitter_handle": "samanthasunne"}], "keywords": ["google", "sheets:", "scraping", "without", "coding", "hands-on", "web", "scraping", "google", "sheets", "beginner", "samantha sunne"], "keywords_display": ["web scraping", "google sheets"], "multiday": false}, {"session_id": "1108", "slug": "20200306_google_sheets_scraping_without_coding_repeat_1108", "session_title": "Google Sheets: Scraping without coding (repeat)", "canceled": false, "session_description": "Yes, you can scrape data without using code -- in fact, all you need is Google Sheets! We'll be using Excel-type formulas (don't worry if you don't know what those are, either) to make simple scrapers that automatically pull data into Google Sheets. It\u2019s the best way to get around clunky websites and unhelpful PIOs!\n\nThis session is good for: Beginners who want to start using data for their stories.", "session_type": "Hands-on", "pre_registration": false, "skill_level": "Beginner", "cost": "", "sold_out": false, "start_end": [{"start_datetime": "2020-03-06T14:15:00", "end_datetime": "2020-03-06T15:15:00", "duration_hrs": 1.0}], "byo_laptop": true, "room": "Studio 1", "floor": "2nd", "speakers": [{"name": "Samantha Sunne", "affiliation": "Independent journalist", "bio": "Samantha Sunne is a freelance journalist based in New Orleans. She speaks at conferences, universities and newsrooms around the world, teaching digital tools and tech literacy for journalists. Her work has been published by the Washington Post, NPR and Reuters, and recommended by the Poynter Institute and the Harvard Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy.", "twitter_handle": "samanthasunne"}], "keywords": ["google", "sheets:", "scraping", "without", "coding", "(repeat)", "hands-on", "web", "scraping", "google", "sheets", "beginner", "samantha sunne"], "keywords_display": ["web scraping", "google sheets"], "multiday": false}, {"session_id": "1111", "slug": "20200305_pdf_1_how_to_extract_text_and_tables_from_pdfs_like_a_boss_1111", "session_title": "PDF 1: How to extract text and tables from PDFs like a boss", "canceled": false, "session_description": "This class will cover basic approaches for getting text out of PDF documents using online tool Cometdocs. IRE members have free subscriptions, which means no limit to the number of documents to convert. (No attendance is necessary, just email cometdocs@ire.org). For extracting tables, you'll play with Tabula in a step-by-step demo. In addition, you'll learn how to use a text editor and the import feature in Excel if neither of these approaches work. Lastly, if time allows, you'll see a demo of PDFtk, used for merging, splitting, and rotating a large batch of PDFs. Note that we will not cover Optical Character Recognition as it will be addressed in PDF2.\n\n\nThis session is good for: Non-coders without access to Adobe Acrobat Pro/DC and people who are unfamiliar with PDF-to-text tools or would like to learn how these tools can be used for extracting difficult text from images embedded in a PDF document.", "session_type": "Hands-on", "pre_registration": false, "skill_level": "Beginner", "cost": "", "sold_out": false, "start_end": [{"start_datetime": "2020-03-05T15:30:00", "end_datetime": "2020-03-05T16:30:00", "duration_hrs": 1.0}], "byo_laptop": false, "room": "Studio 8", "floor": "2nd", "speakers": [{"name": "Kevin Crowe", "affiliation": "USA Today", "bio": "Kevin Crowe is a data journalist on USA Today's national investigative team. In the past, he's worked for the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, inewsource in San Diego and the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.", "twitter_handle": "kcrowebasspro"}], "keywords": ["pdf", "1:", "how", "to", "extract", "text", "and", "tables", "from", "pdfs", "like", "a", "boss", "hands-on", "pdfs", "beginner", "kevin crowe"], "keywords_display": ["pdfs"], "multiday": false}, {"session_id": "1112", "slug": "20200306_pdf_2_using_ocr_to_extract_data_from_pdfs_1112", "session_title": "PDF 2: Using OCR to extract data from PDFs", "canceled": false, "session_description": "This class will cover basic approaches for getting text out of PDF documents using powerful and freely available tools. Participants will be introduced to basic concepts and walked-through tackling common challenges encountered with tricky PDF documents.\n\nThis session is good for: People who are unfamiliar with the PDF to text tools or would like to learn how optical character recognition (OCR) tools can be used for extracting difficult text from images embedded in PDF document.", "session_type": "Hands-on", "pre_registration": false, "skill_level": "Intermediate", "cost": "", "sold_out": false, "start_end": [{"start_datetime": "2020-03-06T15:30:00", "end_datetime": "2020-03-06T16:30:00", "duration_hrs": 1.0}], "byo_laptop": false, "room": "Studio 3", "floor": "2nd", "speakers": [{"name": "Chad Day", "affiliation": "The Wall Street Journal", "bio": "Chad Day covers the 2020 campaign and money in politics for The Wall Street Journal. He was previously a reporter on The Associated Press investigative team covering the Russia investigation and the Trump administration.", "twitter_handle": "ChadSDay"}], "keywords": ["pdf", "2:", "using", "ocr", "to", "extract", "data", "from", "pdfs", "hands-on", "pdfs", "intermediate", "chad day"], "keywords_display": ["pdfs"], "multiday": false}, {"session_id": "1113", "slug": "20200306_pdf_3_batch_pdf_processing_1113", "session_title": "PDF 3: Batch pdf processing", "canceled": false, "session_description": "Practice processing multiple documents with the open-source Python tool pdfplumber. Dan Keemahill will walk through the steps that helped reporters collaboratively count issues at immigration detention facilities. The class will discuss techniques for working with thousands or millions of documents, but the hands-on component will involve a smaller batch. The class will also discuss Optical Character Recognition, but see the PDF2 class for more hands-on examples of OCR.\n\nThis session is good for: People with some programming experience who are able to install third-party software.", "session_type": "Hands-on", "pre_registration": false, "skill_level": "Advanced", "cost": "", "sold_out": false, "start_end": [{"start_datetime": "2020-03-06T16:45:00", "end_datetime": "2020-03-06T17:45:00", "duration_hrs": 1.0}], "byo_laptop": false, "room": "Studio 3", "floor": "2nd", "speakers": [{"name": "Dan Keemahill", "affiliation": "Austin American-Statesman", "bio": "Dan Keemahill  is a web developer for Gannett and the Austin American-Statesman. He previously built interactive data projects for the Texas Tribune and the radio program Marketplace. He was also a student fellow with the Knight Lab at Northwestern University, where he received a bachelor's degree in journalism.", "twitter_handle": "dankeemahill"}], "keywords": ["pdf", "3:", "batch", "pdf", "processing", "hands-on", "pdfs", "python", "advanced", "dan keemahill"], "keywords_display": ["pdfs", "python"], "multiday": false}, {"session_id": "1114", "slug": "20200308_pdf_1_using_free_online_tools_repeat_1114", "session_title": "PDF 1: Using free online tools (repeat)", "canceled": false, "session_description": "This class will cover basic approaches for getting text out of PDF documents using powerful and freely available tools. Participants will be introduced to basic concepts and walked through tackling common challenges encountered with tricky PDF documents.\n\nThis session is good for: People who are unfamiliar with PDF-to-text tools or would like to learn how these tools can be used for extracting difficult text from images embedded in a PDF document.", "session_type": "Hands-on", "pre_registration": false, "skill_level": "Beginner", "cost": "", "sold_out": false, "start_end": [{"start_datetime": "2020-03-08T09:00:00", "end_datetime": "2020-03-08T10:00:00", "duration_hrs": 1.0}], "byo_laptop": false, "room": "Studio 7", "floor": "2nd", "speakers": [{"name": "Adelaide Chen", "affiliation": "Orlando Sentinel", "bio": "Adelaide Chen is a data/multimedia specialist at the Orlando Sentinel, where she uses free third-party tools mixed with Python, Sequel Pro and Excel for data analysis and JavaScript for visualization. Former data editor at the Las Vegas Review-Journal. Journalism school graduate from UC Berkeley.", "twitter_handle": null}], "keywords": ["pdf", "1:", "using", "free", "online", "tools", "(repeat)", "hands-on", "pdfs", "beginner", "adelaide chen"], "keywords_display": ["pdfs"], "multiday": false}, {"session_id": "1115", "slug": "20200306_hitchhikers_guide_to_apis_1115", "session_title": "Hitchhikers guide to APIs", "canceled": false, "session_description": "In this hands-on session, you will learn the ins and outs of working with APIs, a flexible way for computers to communicate and share data. We'll cover working with public APIs as well as using APIs protected behind keys and other authentication methods. After this session you'll have the tools to dig deeper into your city's open data portal, scrape \"unscrapeable\" websites, convert addresses to coordinates, send texts or emails on command, grab data from Twitter or even handle payments!\n\nNote: You will need a Google account for this session.\n\nThis session is good for: Everyone. We'll be working with tools non-coders can appreciate, but also wrangling the Python code that can take us to the next level.", "session_type": "Hands-on", "pre_registration": false, "skill_level": "Beginner", "cost": "", "sold_out": false, "start_end": [{"start_datetime": "2020-03-06T11:30:00", "end_datetime": "2020-03-06T12:30:00", "duration_hrs": 1.0}], "byo_laptop": false, "room": "Studio 7", "floor": "2nd", "speakers": [{"name": "Jonathan Soma", "affiliation": "Columbia Journalism School", "bio": "Jonathan Soma is director of the Lede Program at Columbia Graduate School of Journalism, where he lectures on data analysis and interactive visualization. When Soma isn't boring his students to tears, he's probably rescuing cats, and he recently published a fancy website about machine learning in journalism at investigate.ai. ", "twitter_handle": "dangerscarf"}], "keywords": ["hitchhikers", "guide", "to", "apis", "hands-on", "data", "wrangling", "apis", "beginner", "jonathan soma"], "keywords_display": ["data wrangling", "apis"], "multiday": false}, {"session_id": "1119", "slug": "20200305_github_for_journalists_1119", "session_title": "GitHub for journalists", "canceled": false, "session_description": "We'll cover Github's basic features  \u2014 repositories, commits, branches, pull requests and issues \u2014 using a recent data-driven story as a case study. The goal is for you to leave the class and be able to use GitHub on your own for your next story.\n\nPlease note: You will need to bring your own laptop to participate in this class. You will also need to have created an account at GitHub.com and install GitHub Desktop prior to the class. \n\nThis session is good for: Journalists who want to collaborate on data analyses, back up their work and share their methodology with (nerdy) readers.", "session_type": "Hands-on", "pre_registration": false, "skill_level": "Intermediate", "cost": "", "sold_out": false, "start_end": [{"start_datetime": "2020-03-05T10:15:00", "end_datetime": "2020-03-05T11:15:00", "duration_hrs": 1.0}], "byo_laptop": true, "room": "Studio 1", "floor": "2nd", "speakers": [{"name": "Brent Jones", "affiliation": "St. Louis Public Radio", "bio": "Brent Jones is the data visuals specialist at St. Louis Public Radio. Working with a newsroom of nearly 30 journalists, his job includes creating graphics for stories, stand-alone sites for projects and developing/discovering and training staff on newsroom tools. He previously worked at the St. Louis Beacon and is a graduate of Southern Illinois University's journalism school, where he also teaches a course in data journalism.", "twitter_handle": "brentajones"}], "keywords": ["github", "for", "journalists", "hands-on", "work", "better", "github", "intermediate", "brent jones"], "keywords_display": ["work better", "github"], "multiday": false}, {"session_id": "1120", "slug": "20200306_finding_the_story_census_data_repeat_1120", "session_title": "Finding the story: Census data (repeat)", "canceled": false, "session_description": "Census data can bring context and depth to stories on practically any beat. It can also be overwhelming to sift through and find what you need. This hands-on session will walk you through a real census dataset to help you find stories hidden in all that demographic data.\n\nThis session is good for: Those who have some experience with spreadsheets.", "session_type": "Hands-on", "pre_registration": false, "skill_level": "Intermediate", "cost": "", "sold_out": false, "start_end": [{"start_datetime": "2020-03-06T14:15:00", "end_datetime": "2020-03-06T15:15:00", "duration_hrs": 1.0}], "byo_laptop": false, "room": "Studio 2", "floor": "2nd", "speakers": [{"name": "Robert Gebeloff", "affiliation": "The New York Times", "bio": "Robert Gebeloff has been a staff editor for data projects at The New York Times since 2008. He was a Pulitzer Prize finalist twice, and also once produced a 59-part Census series later published as the collection \"Saginaw in the 1980s.\"", "twitter_handle": "gebeloffnyt"}], "keywords": ["finding", "the", "story:", "census", "data", "(repeat)", "hands-on", "census", "&", "demographics", "excel", "intermediate", "robert gebeloff"], "keywords_display": ["census & demographics", "excel"], "multiday": false}, {"session_id": "1121", "slug": "20200305_finding_the_story_campaign_finance_in_excel_1121", "session_title": "Finding the story: Campaign finance in Excel", "canceled": false, "session_description": "Learn how to decipher federal campaign finance filings, how to find stories and how to navigate the limitations of the data.\n\nThis session is good for: People who are comfortable with Excel, but no specific campaign finance knowledge is required.", "session_type": "Hands-on", "pre_registration": false, "skill_level": "Intermediate", "cost": "", "sold_out": false, "start_end": [{"start_datetime": "2020-03-05T16:45:00", "end_datetime": "2020-03-05T17:45:00", "duration_hrs": 1.0}], "byo_laptop": false, "room": "Studio 8", "floor": "2nd", "speakers": [{"name": "Chad Day", "affiliation": "The Wall Street Journal", "bio": "Chad Day covers the 2020 campaign and money in politics for The Wall Street Journal. He was previously a reporter on The Associated Press investigative team covering the Russia investigation and the Trump administration.", "twitter_handle": "ChadSDay"}], "keywords": ["finding", "the", "story:", "campaign", "finance", "in", "excel", "hands-on", "election", "&", "politics", "excel", "intermediate", "election", "chad day"], "keywords_display": ["election & politics", "excel", "election"], "multiday": false}, {"session_id": "1123", "slug": "20200308_finding_the_story_opioid_data_1123", "session_title": "CANCELED - Finding the story: Opioid data", "canceled": true, "session_description": "As the opioid epidemic morphs in communities across the country, this session will help you identify data sources to cover opioid prescribing, hospitalizations, overdoses and treatment options, as well as strategies to cover an ever-changing problem.\n\nThis session is good for: Those with basic spreadsheet skills.", "session_type": "Hands-on", "pre_registration": false, "skill_level": "Intermediate", "cost": "", "sold_out": false, "start_end": [{"start_datetime": "2020-03-08T09:00:00", "end_datetime": "2020-03-08T10:00:00", "duration_hrs": 1.0}], "byo_laptop": false, "room": "Studio 4", "floor": "2nd", "speakers": [], "keywords": ["canceled", "-", "finding", "the", "story:", "opioid", "data", "hands-on", "health", "excel", "intermediate"], "keywords_display": ["health", "excel"], "multiday": false}, {"session_id": "1124", "slug": "20200306_finding_the_story_business_data_1124", "session_title": "Finding the story: Business data", "canceled": false, "session_description": "What is the economic output of your county? 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We may find ourselves working with a non-data reporter who needs to be able to explore a large dataset herself, securely and on deadline. This workshop will present a selection of Python-based methods for producing exploratory visualizations at speed from medium- to large-sized and geographic datasets. \n\nThis session uses web-based tools such as Colaboratory and Vega Editor, and no coding experience is required (though Google and GitHub accounts are required to be able to follow the tutorial).", "session_type": "Hands-on", "pre_registration": false, "skill_level": "Advanced", "cost": "", "sold_out": false, "start_end": [{"start_datetime": "2020-03-07T16:45:00", "end_datetime": "2020-03-07T17:45:00", "duration_hrs": 1.0}], "byo_laptop": false, "room": "Studio 4", "floor": "2nd", "speakers": [{"name": "David Blood", "affiliation": "Financial Times", "bio": "David Blood is a data reporter and visual journalism developer at the Financial Times in London. 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All newsrooms have access to a full enterprise account supported by Google.\n\n**You must bring a laptop and sign up for a free account at flourish.studio to participate in this class.\n\nThis session is good for: Anyone familiar with spreadsheets. No visualization experience required.", "session_type": "Hands-on", "pre_registration": false, "skill_level": "Intermediate", "cost": "", "sold_out": false, "start_end": [{"start_datetime": "2020-03-06T15:30:00", "end_datetime": "2020-03-06T16:30:00", "duration_hrs": 1.0}], "byo_laptop": true, "room": "Studio 1", "floor": "2nd", "speakers": [{"name": "Michael Grant", "affiliation": "Google News Lab", "bio": "Michael Grant is a veteran journalist who specializes in shaping the user experience of editorial products both inside and outside of newsrooms. Grant\u2019s passionate leadership has been enjoyed by special project teams at the San Francisco Chronicle, the Star Tribune and The Center for Investigative Reporting. 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This talk suggests that visualization is more similar to writing that we think: It's constrained by the limitations of the human brain but, beyond that, it's as flexible as written language, if not more. Instead of thinking of rules, then, visualization designers should learn how to make justified and informed decisions instead.", "session_type": "Panel", "pre_registration": false, "skill_level": "General interest", "cost": "", "sold_out": false, "start_end": [{"start_datetime": "2020-03-07T11:30:00", "end_datetime": "2020-03-07T12:30:00", "duration_hrs": 1.0}], "byo_laptop": false, "room": "Bissonet", "floor": "3rd", "speakers": [{"name": "Alberto Cairo", "affiliation": "University of Miami", "bio": "Alberto Cairo is the Knight Chair in Visual Journalism at the University of Miami and the director of the Visualization Program at the university's Center for Computational Science. He's been a graphics director a media publications in Spain and Brazil, and he's currently a consultant for companies like Google. He's also the author of several books about visualization, such as 'How Charts Lie' (2019) and 'The Truthful Art' (2016).", "twitter_handle": "albertocairo"}], "keywords": ["reasoning", "for", "data", "visualization", "panel", "data", "viz", "&", "design", "general interest", "alberto cairo"], "keywords_display": ["data viz & design"], "multiday": false}, {"session_id": "1222", "slug": "20200307_exploratory_data_viz_1222", "session_title": "Using data viz to explore data and find stories", "canceled": false, "session_description": "Details coming soon!", "session_type": "Panel", "pre_registration": false, "skill_level": "", "cost": "", "sold_out": false, "start_end": [{"start_datetime": "2020-03-07T15:30:00", "end_datetime": "2020-03-07T16:30:00", "duration_hrs": 1.0}], "byo_laptop": false, "room": "Galerie 3", "floor": "2nd", "speakers": [{"name": "Stephanie Lamm", "affiliation": "The Houston Chronicle", "bio": "Stephanie Lamm is a data journalist for the Houston Chronicle. 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Before joining USA TODAY, he was a 2019 Nieman fellow. As an editor at The Lens, a nonprofit newsroom in New Orleans, he shaped editorial strategy and oversaw its investigative reporting. He was managing editor of Poynter Online, and before that, he spent 10 years reporting on environmental issues, criminal justice, clergy sex abuse and hurricane preparation and response.", "twitter_handle": null}], "keywords": ["work-life", "balance", "panel", "work", "better", "general interest", "rebecca catalanello", "steve myers"], "keywords_display": ["work better"], "multiday": false}, {"session_id": "1224", "slug": "20200306_navigating_datacensusgov_1224", "session_title": "Navigating data.census.gov", "canceled": false, "session_description": "The 2020 Census is coming, and journalists need to be prepared! Come learn how to use Census Bureau data in your reporting with data.census.gov, the new site to access Census data. In this live demo, we will share tips and tricks while showing how to download data, customize the table view, and map your results.", "session_type": "Demo", "pre_registration": false, "skill_level": "General interest", "cost": "", "sold_out": false, "start_end": [{"start_datetime": "2020-03-06T09:00:00", "end_datetime": "2020-03-06T10:00:00", "duration_hrs": 1.0}], "byo_laptop": false, "room": "Acadia", "floor": "3rd", "speakers": [{"name": "Tyson Weister", "affiliation": "U.S. Census Bureau", "bio": "Tyson Weister is a program analyst at the U.S. Census Bureau, where he engages users on the agency's new dissemination platform, data.census.gov. Previously a survey statistician, he has specialized experience in helping data users access statistics from the American Community Survey through American FactFinder, the API and PUMS files.", "twitter_handle": "uscensusbureau"}], "keywords": ["navigating", "data.census.gov", "demo", "census", "&", "demographics", "general interest", "tyson weister"], "keywords_display": ["census & demographics"], "multiday": false}, {"session_id": "2000", "slug": "20200306_communicating_statistical_significance_2000", "session_title": "CANCELED - Communicating statistical significance", "canceled": true, "session_description": "Statistical significance and inference are hard to interpret correctly and harder to communicate clearly. Print \u201cwe fail to reject the null hypothesis at 95% level\u201d and you\u2019ll be looking for a job but say \u201cthe chance we got it wrong is 5%\u201d and you should be. \n\nUnfortunately, that difficulty of staying interesting while being precise keeps useful declarations of what is and isn\u2019t likely off pages where they\u2019re needed. But it is possible to do and do well. \n\nStatisticians and science communicators across disciplines interest readers in correct but casual versions of their inferences all the time. What techniques help them get the point across? Are p-value statements even necessary? This panel of statisticians, science communicators, and journalists will discuss how to take the hidden model you worked so hard on and make it something worthy of the front page.", "session_type": "Panel", "pre_registration": false, "skill_level": "Advanced", "cost": "", "sold_out": false, "start_end": [{"start_datetime": "2020-03-06T15:30:00", "end_datetime": "2020-03-06T16:30:00", "duration_hrs": 1.0}], "byo_laptop": false, "room": "Acadia", "floor": "3rd", "speakers": [], "keywords": ["canceled", "-", "communicating", "statistical", "significance", "panel", "statistics", "advanced"], "keywords_display": ["statistics"], "multiday": false}, {"session_id": "2001", "slug": "20200306_scraping_in_r_2001", "session_title": "Scraping in R", "canceled": false, "session_description": "Python has been considered the go-to for web-scraping for many, but did you know web scraping can be easy in R too? This session walks through how to scrape data from the web with R library Rvest. If you had trouble copying a table from a webpage and pasting it in an Excel spreadsheet, or if you want to access data and files buried behind hyperlinks without clicking each one of the links, this is the session for you.\n\nThis session would be the best for people who has basic knowledge of R but haven't scraped the web. Knowledge of HTML/CSS is helpful but not required.", "session_type": "Hands-on", "pre_registration": false, "skill_level": "Advanced", "cost": "", "sold_out": false, "start_end": [{"start_datetime": "2020-03-06T10:15:00", "end_datetime": "2020-03-06T11:15:00", "duration_hrs": 1.0}], "byo_laptop": false, "room": "Studio 8", "floor": "2nd", "speakers": [{"name": "Jasmine (Ye) Han", "affiliation": "Bloomberg Industry Group", "bio": "Jasmine (Ye) Han is a data reporter with Bloomberg Industry Group in the Washington, D.C., area. Jasmine, an alumna of the Missouri School of Journalism, is pursuing a master's degree in data science. Talk to her about R, rock climbing and food.", "twitter_handle": "JasmineHanYe"}], "keywords": ["scraping", "in", "r", "hands-on", "web", "scraping", "TheRProgrammingLanguage", "advanced", "jasmine (ye) han"], "keywords_display": ["web scraping", "r"], "multiday": false}, {"session_id": "2013", "slug": "20200306_being_a_better_ally_2013", "session_title": "Being a better ally", "canceled": false, "session_description": "We know the stats. We hear the stories. What can we do to retain journalists from underrepresented groups? In this safe space, we\u2019ll discuss questions you can ask management and tips on how to support your colleagues from marginalized communities. All are welcome, white people especially encouraged to attend.", "session_type": "Commons", "pre_registration": false, "skill_level": "General interest", "cost": "", "sold_out": false, "start_end": [{"start_datetime": "2020-03-06T15:30:00", "end_datetime": "2020-03-06T16:30:00", "duration_hrs": 1.0}], "byo_laptop": false, "room": "Galerie 4", "floor": "2nd", "speakers": [{"name": "Madi Alexander", "affiliation": "The Dallas Morning News", "bio": "Madi Alexander is a computational journalist at The Dallas Morning News. She was previously a data reporter at Bloomberg Government in Washington, D.C. Madi has a master's degree in journalism from the University of Missouri. She volunteers for the Dallas puppy-raising chapter of Guide Dogs for the Blind. Madi also keeps a database of all the national parks and historical sites she has visited \u2014 a total of 40 thus far.", "twitter_handle": "MadiLAlexander"}, {"name": "Megan Luther", "affiliation": "InvestigateTV", "bio": "Megan Luther is an investigative producer with InvestigateTV, Gray Television's national investigative team. Previously, she was Senior Training Director for Investigative Reporters & Editors. Other former titles include reporter, data analyst and overnight DJ. Megan, mother of two, works remotely in South Dakota.", "twitter_handle": "MeganLuther"}, {"name": "Jon Schleuss", "affiliation": "NewsGuild", "bio": "", "twitter_handle": ""}, {"name": "Moiz Syed", "affiliation": "ProPublica", "bio": "Moiz Syed is a journalist, designer and developer on ProPublica's news apps team, covering the federal government. Previously he worked at The Intercept and the Wikimedia Foundation. 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In addition, readers are often shocked that this level of data is available. We will discuss practical tips for when voter data is useful, how to find and process it, what it can't do, and how to report accurately and responsibly on voter data breaches, and leave lots of time for voter data questions!", "session_type": "Panel", "pre_registration": false, "skill_level": "General interest", "cost": "", "sold_out": false, "start_end": [{"start_datetime": "2020-03-07T10:15:00", "end_datetime": "2020-03-07T11:15:00", "duration_hrs": 1.0}], "byo_laptop": false, "room": "Bissonet", "floor": "3rd", "speakers": [{"name": "Carla Astudillo", "affiliation": "Texas Tribune", "bio": "Carla Astudillo is a news app and data visuals developer with a focus on elections and political data. Previously, she was a data and interactive visuals journalist at NJ.com and The Star-Ledger in New Jersey, where she helped build a database of police use of force in the state as part of a 16-month investigative project. She got her master's degree from the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY and her bachelor's degree from the University of Florida.", "twitter_handle": null}, {"name": "Jessica Huseman", "affiliation": "ProPublica", "bio": "Jessica Huseman is a reporter for ProPublica based in Austin, Texas. She is the lead reporter for Electionland, ProPublica's collaborative effort to cover ballot access. She is a data journalism instructor at Columbia Graduate School of Journalism.", "twitter_handle": null}, {"name": "Caitlin Ostroff", "affiliation": "The Wall Street Journal", "bio": "Caitlin Ostroff is a London-based reporter for The Wall Street Journal where she uses words, numbers and code to cover the world of finance. Previously, she was a data reporter at the Miami Herald, covering elections, gun violence and Mar-a-Lago. She\u2019s a graduate of the University of Florida and co-director of @jourinternships\u2019 online Media Mentors program. She\u2019s happy to chat, so reach out at caitlin.ostroff@wsj.com.", "twitter_handle": "ceostroff"}, {"name": "Rachel Shorey", "affiliation": "The New York Times", "bio": "Rachel is a Senior Software Engineer and Assistant Editor for Data Projects on the Interactive News team at The New York Times. She works on a variety of software and data projects, including campaign finance and voter data. In addition, she is especially excited to chat about prime numbers.", "twitter_handle": null}], "keywords": ["voter", "file", "data,", "from", "toplines", "to", "deep", "dives", "to", "breaches", "panel", "election", "&", "politics", "general interest", "election", "carla astudillo", "jessica huseman", "caitlin ostroff", "rachel shorey"], "keywords_display": ["election & politics", "election"], "multiday": false}, {"session_id": "2030", "slug": "20200307_practical_machine_learning_for_investigations_with_fastai_saturday_afternoon_2030", "session_title": "Practical machine learning for investigations with fast.ai  (Saturday afternoon)", "canceled": false, "session_description": "Get hands-on experience using this accessible, open-source Python library to classify images, text, and rows of data -- potentially saving you hours or days of work poring through the data. In the process, you'll also get a feel for the power -- and limits -- of machine learning.\n\nThis session with John Keefe and Jeremy Merrill of the Quartz investigations team will introduce you to the concept of machine learning and several practical uses for it in your newsroom.\n\nPreregistration is required and seating is limited. You must bring your own laptop (no tablets) to this training.\n\nPrerequisites: A Google (aka Gmail) account. Basic understanding of Python is recommended but not required.", "session_type": "Hands-on", "pre_registration": true, "skill_level": "Advanced", "cost": "35", "sold_out": false, "start_end": [{"start_datetime": "2020-03-07T14:15:00", "end_datetime": "2020-03-07T17:45:00", "duration_hrs": 3.5}], "byo_laptop": true, "room": "Studio 1", "floor": "2nd", "speakers": [{"name": "John Keefe", "affiliation": "Quartz", "bio": "John Keefe is the investigations editor at Quartz. He also teaches classes on investigative reporting, product prototyping, and machine learning at the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY. Before joining Quartz, he was Senior Editor for Data News at public radio station WNYC. Keefe blogs at johnkeefe.net.", "twitter_handle": "jkeefe"}, {"name": "Jeremy Merrill", "affiliation": "Quartz", "bio": "Jeremy B. 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Get familiar with the basics of regular expressions and how they can help with your next batch of dirty data.\n\nThis session is good for: People who have ever done more than two search/replace actions to clean a data set, or had to split a ZIP code from an address or otherwise want to conquer their fears of regex.", "session_type": "Hands-on", "pre_registration": false, "skill_level": "Intermediate", "cost": "", "sold_out": false, "start_end": [{"start_datetime": "2020-03-05T09:00:00", "end_datetime": "2020-03-05T10:00:00", "duration_hrs": 1.0}], "byo_laptop": true, "room": "Studio 10", "floor": "2nd", "speakers": [{"name": "Justin Myers", "affiliation": "The Associated Press", "bio": "Justin Myers is a data journalist at The Associated Press, where he contributes to reporting projects, develops new tools for the newsroom and investigates how emerging technologies can help to advance AP's newsgathering and production efforts. 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Learn how to use DNSDB Scout, a tool to query DNSDB, a historical passive Domain Name System (DNS) database, to discover previously unknown online connections and gain new information to advance your  ongoing and breaking news investigations. \n\nBasic knowledge of the Domain Name System (DNS) is helpful, but not required.", "session_type": "Hands-on", "pre_registration": false, "skill_level": "Advanced", "cost": "", "sold_out": false, "start_end": [{"start_datetime": "2020-03-05T14:15:00", "end_datetime": "2020-03-05T15:15:00", "duration_hrs": 1.0}], "byo_laptop": true, "room": "Studio 1", "floor": "2nd", "speakers": [{"name": "Paul Vixie", "affiliation": "Farsight Security, Inc.", "bio": "Dr. Paul Vixie is an Internet pioneer and CEO of Farsight Security. An Internet Hall of Fame inductee, Dr. Vixie is a prolific author of open source Internet software including BIND, and many Internet standards documents concerning DNS and DNSSEC. He founded the first anti-spam company (MAPS, 1996), the first nonprofit Internet infrastructure software company (ISC, 1994) and the first neutral and commercial Internet exchange (PAIX, 1991).  He spoke at NICAR in 2019.", "twitter_handle": null}], "keywords": ["finding", "the", "story:", "using", "dns", "search", "for", "investigative", "journalism", "hands-on", "research", "advanced", "paul vixie"], "keywords_display": ["research"], "multiday": false}, {"session_id": "2051", "slug": "20200306_finding_the_story_using_dns_search_for_investigative_journalism_repeat_2051", "session_title": "Finding the story: Using DNS search for investigative journalism (repeat)", "canceled": false, "session_description": "Every online interaction begins with a lookup in the Domain Name System (DNS), the backbone of the Internet. As a result, there are digital footprints left behind in the DNS. With the demise of Whois, investigative reporters are looking for new tools to uncover these footprints. 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Her work has been honored with awards from the Online News Association, Investigative Reporters & Editors, the Society of Professional Journalists and SXSW Interactive. Feathered dinosaur and data enthusiast.", "twitter_handle": "pickoffwhite"}], "keywords": ["turning", "your", "stack", "of", "documents", "into", "structured", "data", "panel", "data", "wrangling", "beginner", "will craft", "lisa pickoff-white"], "keywords_display": ["data wrangling"], "multiday": false}, {"session_id": "2191", "slug": "20200306_beyond_the_horserace_of_election_results_graphics_2191", "session_title": "Beyond the horserace of election results graphics", "canceled": false, "session_description": "We all love making political graphics, and election night can be a fun exercise in showing off our data graphics prowess. But is there any point to these graphics beyond just showing election results, especially since there\u2019s so many news outlets doing the same iterations of the exact same data? 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But what about our most trusted community institutions? This panel will unpack how AI is being deployed and adapted by our institutions from police to courts to news outlets and more.", "session_type": "Panel", "pre_registration": false, "skill_level": "Advanced", "cost": "", "sold_out": false, "start_end": [{"start_datetime": "2020-03-07T10:15:00", "end_datetime": "2020-03-07T11:15:00", "duration_hrs": 1.0}], "byo_laptop": false, "room": "Galerie 2", "floor": "2nd", "speakers": [{"name": "Nicholas Diakopoulos", "affiliation": "Northwestern University", "bio": "Nick Diakopoulos is a professor of communication studies and computer science at Northwestern University. He studies automation and algorithms as they impact news media including aspects of journalistic data mining, automated content production, news bots and algorithmic accountability. 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Winslow earned a bachelor's degree in print journalism from Howard University in Washington, D.C., and a master's degree in journalism from Temple University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.", "twitter_handle": "newsollie"}], "keywords": ["investigating", "bias:", "from", "housing", "to", "policing", "panel", "diversity", "general interest", "ko bragg", "topher sanders", "olivia winslow"], "keywords_display": ["diversity"], "multiday": false}, {"session_id": "2218", "slug": "20200307_news_automation_is_booming_how_newsrooms_are_embracing_automation_2218", "session_title": "News automation is booming: How newsrooms are embracing automation", "canceled": false, "session_description": "Join us to discuss how automation is changing newsrooms and journalism roles. Some newsrooms are vanguards for automating parts of news production, from information gathering and storytelling to data-driven tools that help journalists to do their jobs. 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This session will take the audience through some successful award-winning examples and unpack the different kinds of datasets that can lend themselves to the different strategies whether it is programmatic data sonification, creative use of narration or using a live church choir.", "session_type": "Panel", "pre_registration": false, "skill_level": "Intermediate", "cost": "", "sold_out": false, "start_end": [{"start_datetime": "2020-03-07T15:30:00", "end_datetime": "2020-03-07T16:30:00", "duration_hrs": 1.0}], "byo_laptop": false, "room": "Galerie 6", "floor": "2nd", "speakers": [{"name": "Robert Benincasa", "affiliation": "National Public Radio", "bio": "Robert Benincasa does data-driven reporting for NPR's investigations team in Washington, D.C.. 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Her radio and print stories have received multiple awards, including a 2019 Edward R. Murrow Award and a 2011 Casey Medal for Meritorious Journalism.", "twitter_handle": "jbmckim"}, {"name": "Sinduja Rangarajan", "affiliation": "Mother Jones", "bio": "Sinduja Rangarajan is the senior data journalist at Mother Jones. She previously worked at Reveal from the Center for Investigative Reporting, where her series on the lack of diversity in Silicon Valley led to many tech giants publicly releasing their data. Her work has won several awards, including the National Edward Murrow Award in 2019. She wrangles and analyzes datasets to tell stories and finds innovative ways to report on issues by collaborating with academics.", "twitter_handle": null}], "keywords": ["how", "to", "make", "data", "findings", "come", "to", "life", "on", "radio", "panel", "audio", "intermediate", "robert benincasa", "michael corey", "jenifer mckim", "sinduja rangarajan"], "keywords_display": ["audio"], "multiday": false}, {"session_id": "2225", "slug": "20200305_advanced_data_journalism_through_a_browser_2225", "session_title": "Advanced data journalism through a browser", "canceled": false, "session_description": "Every journalist has faced down the dreaded install of a new tool that doesn't go well \u2014 or even go at all. Maybe it's led to inscrutable Python error messages that no one can help you diagnose. Perhaps you work for an organization that won't (or can't) grant admin rights on company hardware. Or it could be that you're trying to teach command-line tools to a bunch of college students without having them brick their machines. \n\nTo get around some of these pitfalls, new tools/platforms like Binder, RStudio Cloud and others have come online, offering to serve up Python and R like the second coming of the Google Suite. But which services work best? What are the limits? What do they cost, if anything? How much work do you have to put in to get them functioning properly?", "session_type": "Demo", "pre_registration": false, "skill_level": "Advanced", "cost": "", "sold_out": false, "start_end": [{"start_datetime": "2020-03-05T16:45:00", "end_datetime": "2020-03-05T17:45:00", "duration_hrs": 1.0}], "byo_laptop": false, "room": "Galerie 6", "floor": "2nd", "speakers": [{"name": "Alex Richards", "affiliation": "Syracuse University", "bio": "Alex is an assistant professor at Syracuse University's Newhouse School, where he teaches data journalism. He's a former training director at Investigative Reporters & Editors, and he has previously worked as a reporter and editor at the Chicago Tribune, NerdWallet, The Chronicle of Higher Education and the Las Vegas Sun, where he was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 2011 and shared the Goldsmith Prize for investigative reporting.", "twitter_handle": "alexrichards"}], "keywords": ["advanced", "data", "journalism", "through", "a", "browser", "demo", "tools", "advanced", "alex richards"], "keywords_display": ["tools"], "multiday": false}, {"session_id": "2229", "slug": "20200306_build_your_own_collaborative_documentation_site_an_introduction_to_library_2229", "session_title": "Build your own collaborative documentation site: An introduction to Library", "canceled": false, "session_description": "Writing and maintaining good documentation is hard. After trying several other approaches at the New York Times, we built Library, a collaborative site powered by Google Docs.\n\nLibrary is an open-source documentation tool released by the New York Times in collaboration with Northwestern University\u2019s Knight Lab in 2019. Because every page in Library is a Google Doc, you already know how to use it!\n\nIn this, we\u2019ll show you how to set up a copy of Library for your own organization, following the Deploy to Heroku steps outlined in the open source release. Prior experience working with the command line will be helpful, but is not required.", "session_type": "Commons", "pre_registration": false, "skill_level": "Beginner", "cost": "", "sold_out": false, "start_end": [{"start_datetime": "2020-03-06T10:15:00", "end_datetime": "2020-03-06T11:15:00", "duration_hrs": 1.0}], "byo_laptop": false, "room": "Galerie 4", "floor": "2nd", "speakers": [{"name": "Isaac White", "affiliation": "The New York Times", "bio": "Isaac White is a senior software engineer on the Interactive News desk at The New York Times. In his spare time, he enjoys baking bread. ", "twitter_handle": "TweetAtIsaac"}], "keywords": ["build", "your", "own", "collaborative", "documentation", "site:", "an", "introduction", "to", "library", "commons", "tools", "beginner", "isaac white"], "keywords_display": ["tools"], "multiday": false}, {"session_id": "2230", "slug": "20200308_containerization_2230", "session_title": "How and why to Dockerize your project", "canceled": false, "session_description": "Docker simplifies the development and deployment of projects by bundling application code with everything it needs to run, including languages, libraries, and services. In this panel, we\u2019ll discuss the many ways in which Docker has made our programming lives easier. We\u2019ll also share tips for getting started with Docker and tease more advanced applications. If you\u2019ve ever struggled to maintain a legacy news app, manage a rogue software installation, or collaborate on projects with complex dependencies, this session is for you!", "session_type": "Panel", "pre_registration": false, "skill_level": "Advanced", "cost": "", "sold_out": false, "start_end": [{"start_datetime": "2020-03-08T11:30:00", "end_datetime": "2020-03-08T12:30:00", "duration_hrs": 1.0}], "byo_laptop": false, "room": "Galerie 3", "floor": "2nd", "speakers": [{"name": "Alexander Cohen", "affiliation": "Independent journalist", "bio": "Cohen is a developer and reporter based in Washington, D.C. He's spent more than a decade investigating public and private interests for outlets including CNN, the Las Vegas Review-Journal, the Center for Public Integrity and Reuters.", "twitter_handle": "capitolmuckrakr"}, {"name": "Pratheek Rebala", "affiliation": "The Center for Public Integrity", "bio": "Pratheek is a news developer at the Center for Public Integrity. He previously worked on the graphics team at Time Magazine.", "twitter_handle": null}], "keywords": ["how", "and", "why", "to", "dockerize", "your", "project", "panel", "work", "better", "containers", "advanced", "alexander cohen", "pratheek rebala"], "keywords_display": ["work better", "containers"], "multiday": false}, {"session_id": "2232", "slug": "20200306_data_on_the_wildfire_beat_2232", "session_title": "Data on the wildfire beat", "canceled": false, "session_description": "As wildfires have become more frequent and more intense, newsrooms have opportunities to raise the bar of their reporting by bringing data into their coverage of these disasters. Over the past year, media outlets have increasingly incorporated data into their wildfire coverage, whether to track fires while they happen, provide new context or by digging into data about contributing factors and fallout. We will highlight some of the best examples, review how projects we worked on came together, discuss how data-driven wildfire reporting could be improved in the future and go through sources and ideas that newsrooms can put into use for their own wildfire coverage.", "session_type": "Panel", "pre_registration": false, "skill_level": "Intermediate", "cost": "", "sold_out": false, "start_end": [{"start_datetime": "2020-03-06T11:30:00", "end_datetime": "2020-03-06T12:30:00", "duration_hrs": 1.0}], "byo_laptop": false, "room": "Galerie 2", "floor": "2nd", "speakers": [{"name": "Ren Larson", "affiliation": "The Arizona Republic", "bio": "Ren Larson is a data journalist with the Arizona Republic, where she has worked on elections, environmental contamination, wildfires and immigration projects. In a previous life, she was an urban planner for the city of Austin, Texas, and a short-lived bike messenger in Beirut. Ren holds a master's degree in public policy and an M.A. in International Studies from the University of California Berkeley.", "twitter_handle": "renLarson_"}, {"name": "Casey Miller", "affiliation": "Los Angeles Times", "bio": "Casey is a data and visual journalist working on the data and graphics team at the Los Angeles Times. In the past, she has helped create visual and data driven graphics and narratives at Mapbox, Vox Media and The Wall Street Journal.", "twitter_handle": null}, {"name": "Evan Wyloge", "affiliation": "Colorado Springs Gazette", "bio": "Wyloge is a Denver-based data and investigative reporter for The Colorado Springs Gazette focused on statewide accountability journalism. Formerly: The Desert Sun/USA Today Network, Arizona Center for Investigative Reporting, Arizona Capitol Times.", "twitter_handle": "EvanWyloge"}], "keywords": ["data", "on", "the", "wildfire", "beat", "panel", "data", "analysis", "intermediate", "ren larson", "casey miller", "evan wyloge"], "keywords_display": ["data analysis"], "multiday": false}, {"session_id": "2235", "slug": "20200306_exploring_the_radio_spectrum_for_news_2235", "session_title": "Exploring the radio spectrum for news", "canceled": false, "session_description": "Once the exclusive domain of scientists, engineers and HAM radio operators, a new generation of cheap hardware and open source software have cracked open the radio spectrum for hackers, hobbyists \u2014 and journalists \u2014 to explore. Radios are built into dozens of devices we use every day, and the radio spectrum is a tightly regulated, poorly understood invisible national asset. There are stories flying around in the air around you, and it\u2019s time you started looking for them. We'll give an overview of how this all works, and walk you through the tools you can use to start poking around the radio spectrum. We\u2019ll also look at some interesting examples of how the radio spectrum has been used in reporting the news.", "session_type": "Demo", "pre_registration": false, "skill_level": "General interest", "cost": "", "sold_out": false, "start_end": [{"start_datetime": "2020-03-06T09:00:00", "end_datetime": "2020-03-06T10:00:00", "duration_hrs": 1.0}], "byo_laptop": false, "room": "Galerie 2", "floor": "2nd", "speakers": [{"name": "Jon Keegan", "affiliation": "The Markup", "bio": "Jon Keegan is an Investigative Data Journalist at The Markup. Prior to The Markup, he was a Senior Research Fellow at the Tow Center for Digital Journalism at Columbia University, researching signals of trust in online news and studying the role of artificial intelligence in journalism. He also worked at The Wall Street Journal for 18 years, where he ran the interactive graphics team.", "twitter_handle": "jonkeegan"}], "keywords": ["exploring", "the", "radio", "spectrum", "for", "news", "demo", "sensors", "general interest", "jon keegan"], "keywords_display": ["sensors"], "multiday": false}, {"session_id": "2236", "slug": "20200305_covering_housing_from_a_z_localizing_affordable_housing_stories_and_data_2236", "session_title": "Covering housing from A-Z: Localizing affordable housing stories and data", "canceled": false, "session_description": "Stories about redlining and the inequities among home loan recipients from big banks have dominated housing coverage in recent years. But homeownership is just one part of the affordable housing conversation that needs coverage. Public housing authorities, federal disinvestment in public housing/the Section 8 program, county/city first-time homeowner loan programs, evictions at housing courts, slumlord landlords, tenant protection ordinances, and localizing coverage of how Secretary Ben Carson's HUD is affecting communities is vital, and this panel would show attendees how to do it. \n\nThis workshop is for people interested in amping up housing coverage as a side beat, their main beat or a one-time project. We'll discuss data they should be requesting from their local agencies for quick turn stories or to find trends, including from housing courts, public housing authorities and more. This workshop goes beyond the redlining projects to help journalists find data-driven affordable housing stories no matter where they are.", "session_type": "Panel", "pre_registration": false, "skill_level": "General interest", "cost": "", "sold_out": false, "start_end": [{"start_datetime": "2020-03-05T16:45:00", "end_datetime": "2020-03-05T17:45:00", "duration_hrs": 1.0}], "byo_laptop": false, "room": "Galerie 2", "floor": "2nd", "speakers": [{"name": "Marissa Evans", "affiliation": "The Star Tribune", "bio": "Marissa Evans is the social issues reporter for The Star Tribune in Minneapolis where she covers housing, health and equity issues. She was previously the health and human services reporter with The Texas Tribune, where she won an ONA Online Journalism Award in 2018 for her reporting on maternal mortality. Her reporting has appeared in Oprah Magazine, The Atlantic, Civil Eats, The Washington Post, The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel and Kaiser Health News.", "twitter_handle": "marissaaevans"}, {"name": "Jessica Williams", "affiliation": "The New Orleans Advocate", "bio": "Jessica Williams has covered politics and policy in her native New Orleans for more than a decade. In her five years at The New Orleans Advocate, which recently merged with the Times-Picayune, she's covered the rise of New Orleans\u2019 mixed-income housing developments and gentrification\u2019s effects on the city's real estate market. Before The Advocate, she covered education for The Times-Picayune and The Lens, a nonprofit news initiative. Follow her @jwilliamsNOLA.", "twitter_handle": "jwilliamsNOLA"}], "keywords": ["covering", "housing", "from", "a-z:", "localizing", "affordable", "housing", "stories", "and", "data", "panel", "housing", "general interest", "marissa evans", "jessica williams"], "keywords_display": ["housing"], "multiday": false}, {"session_id": "2237", "slug": "20200307_introducing_and_implementing_security_protocols_in_your_reporting_process_2237", "session_title": "Introducing and implementing security protocols in your reporting process", "canceled": false, "session_description": "Opening secure communication channels is a great way to establish trust and offer confidentially to sources. But setting up secure tip lines costs time and money, and it can be a challenge if you have limited resources. \n\nThis will be a space to talk about different ways to include security measures in your reporting process, whether you're a local reporter, student journalist, freelancer, etc. No digital security experience required!\n\nWe'll discuss the different tools available (e.g. encrypted messaging apps), resources you can start with, what protocols you can set up if you and/or your newsroom have a limited budget, and common security challenges.\n\nLet's brainstorm ideas and help you find solutions that work best for you and/or your newsroom!", "session_type": "Commons", "pre_registration": false, "skill_level": "Beginner", "cost": "", "sold_out": false, "start_end": [{"start_datetime": "2020-03-07T10:15:00", "end_datetime": "2020-03-07T11:15:00", "duration_hrs": 1.0}], "byo_laptop": false, "room": "Galerie 4", "floor": "2nd", "speakers": [{"name": "Phi Do", "affiliation": "Los Angeles Times", "bio": "Phi is a data journalist at The Los Angeles Times, where she launched and manages the newsroom tip line. Prior, she helped develop databases for Voice of OC and wrote for the Santa Barbara Independent and the Hollywood Reporter. She graduated with a film degree from the University of California at Santa Barbara.", "twitter_handle": null}], "keywords": ["introducing", "and", "implementing", "security", "protocols", "in", "your", "reporting", "process", "commons", "security", "beginner", "phi do"], "keywords_display": ["security"], "multiday": false}, {"session_id": "2239", "slug": "20200308_whered_i_put_that_file_2239", "session_title": "Where'd I put that file?", "canceled": false, "session_description": "You know you downloaded that data, but now that you need it for your story, where'd it go? Or did your source send it to you in an email? Oh well. Now it's time to send that feature to your editor, but you can't remember if it's my-great-story-thisone.doc or my great-story-final-final.doc. \n\nCome hear about how to keep from feeling overwhelmed by disorganization when juggling multiple projects. We'll cover file naming and folder structures, apps that can help you manage files, and even some tips for organizing things like email and FOIA requests.", "session_type": "Demo", "pre_registration": false, "skill_level": "General interest", "cost": "", "sold_out": false, "start_end": [{"start_datetime": "2020-03-08T10:15:00", "end_datetime": "2020-03-08T11:15:00", "duration_hrs": 1.0}], "byo_laptop": false, "room": "Galerie 2", "floor": "2nd", "speakers": [{"name": "Brent Jones", "affiliation": "St. Louis Public Radio", "bio": "Brent Jones is the data visuals specialist at St. Louis Public Radio. Working with a newsroom of nearly 30 journalists, his job includes creating graphics for stories, stand-alone sites for projects and developing/discovering and training staff on newsroom tools. He previously worked at the St. Louis Beacon and is a graduate of Southern Illinois University's journalism school, where he also teaches a course in data journalism.", "twitter_handle": "brentajones"}, {"name": "Sarah Rafique", "affiliation": "KTRK-ABC 13", "bio": "Sarah Rafique is an investigative producer at KTRK, the ABC-owned station in Houston, Texas, where she focuses on data reporting, visualization and telling investigations through compelling narratives. She previously worked as an investigative reporter at KXAN in Austin. Before that, she was a print reporter covering Fort Hood and West Texas. She's been recognized statewide and nationally for investigative reporting, breaking news and features.", "twitter_handle": "SarahRafique"}], "keywords": ["where'd", "i", "put", "that", "file?", "demo", "work", "better", "general interest", "brent jones", "sarah rafique"], "keywords_display": ["work better"], "multiday": false}, {"session_id": "2240", "slug": "20200305_how_i_learn_to_tell_stories_with_data_2240", "session_title": "How I learn to tell stories with data", "canceled": false, "session_description": "With a dizzying number of tools and methods to learn data, what works best for journalism students learning how to tell good and accurate stories with data? In this session, we'll ask the students! Journalism educators and students alike should benefit from this discussion of methods that help students learn sound data principles and continue adapting to new tools.", "session_type": "Commons", "pre_registration": false, "skill_level": "", "cost": "", "sold_out": false, "start_end": [{"start_datetime": "2020-03-05T09:00:00", "end_datetime": "2020-03-05T10:00:00", "duration_hrs": 1.0}], "byo_laptop": false, "room": "Galerie 4", "floor": "2nd", "speakers": [{"name": "Sophia Brown", "affiliation": "Boston University", "bio": "Sophia Brown is a data journalist majoring in journalism and international relations at Boston University. She began her news career at The Daily Free Press, Boston University's independent student newspaper, where she covered crime and justice. After leaving the FreeP, Sophia interned for an international news agency in Paris and for the New England Center for Investigative Reporting. This year, she is the data journalism teaching assistant.", "twitter_handle": "sophiasbrown"}, {"name": "Kimberly Cataudella", "affiliation": "Investigative Reporting Workshop", "bio": "Kimberly Cataudella is a fourth-year student at American University double majoring in journalism and religious studies. She works at the Investigative Reporting Workshop as The Accountability Project's data intern. She is a news writer for her campus paper, The Eagle, reporting on the Greek life beat, having previously served as sports editor for two years. She will be earning her master's degree in investigative journalism at American in 2021.", "twitter_handle": "kcataudella"}, {"name": "Theresa Diffendal", "affiliation": "University of Maryland Philip Merrill College of Journalism", "bio": "Diffendal is a graduate student at the University of Maryland's Philip Merrill College of Journalism. Diffendal got hooked data and coding following an introductory course in design and graphics. Since then, she has worked on The Associated Press' \"Death Behind Bars\" and Capital News Service's \"Code Red.\" In my free time, Diffendal enjoys teasing her cat and slinging frisbees.", "twitter_handle": "theresarose_"}, {"name": "Maggie Mulvihill", "affiliation": "Boston University", "bio": "Maggie Mulvihill\u2019s data journalism students have been honored with 10 regional or national awards since 2011, as well as being named finalists for the prestigious Livingston Award for Young Journalists. An attorney, Maggie serves on the steering committee of the Reporter's Committee for Freedom of the Press and the board of the New England First Amendment Coalition. She is a co-founder of the New England Center for Investigative Reporting and a former Nieman Fellow.", "twitter_handle": null}], "keywords": ["how", "i", "learn", "to", "tell", "stories", "with", "data", "commons", "sophia brown", "kimberly cataudella", "theresa diffendal", "maggie mulvihill"], "keywords_display": [], "multiday": false}, {"session_id": "2243", "slug": "20200306_beyond_pictures_turning_satellite_imagery_into_data_2243", "session_title": "Beyond pictures: Turning satellite imagery into data", "canceled": false, "session_description": "Satellite imagery has become easier to obtain, process and analyze, and journalists have increasingly turned to pictures from space to show burned land, eroding coastline and storm-ravaged landscapes. But there\u2019s data in those pixels that journalists might not have considered that can be used to tell stories about the world around them \u2014 ethnic cleansing, tribal clashes, the health of forests, pollution and more. \n\nWe turn to a panel of leading geospatial experts to explain how we could use remote sensing methods and tools like Google Earth Engine to lend authority to stories that otherwise might rely on anecdotes or worse yet, never get told at all.", "session_type": "Panel", "pre_registration": false, "skill_level": "Advanced", "cost": "", "sold_out": false, "start_end": [{"start_datetime": "2020-03-06T15:30:00", "end_datetime": "2020-03-06T16:30:00", "duration_hrs": 1.0}], "byo_laptop": false, "room": "Galerie 2", "floor": "2nd", "speakers": [{"name": "Jessica McCarty", "affiliation": "Miami University", "bio": "Dr. McCarty has more than 15 years of experience in geospatial and data science, with applications in fire, climate change, emissions, air quality, agriculture and food security, land-cover/land-use change and forestry. Her work scales from farm-level to global. She currently works with U.S. state and federal agencies on wild and prescribed fire management, in addition to her work in India, Nepal, Peru, Vietnam, Ethiopia, Kenya, C\u00f4te d'Ivoire, Ukraine, Mexico and the Arctic.", "twitter_handle": "jmccarty_geo"}, {"name": "Ryan McNeill", "affiliation": "Reuters", "bio": "Ryan McNeill is the London-based deputy editor of the Reuters data journalism team. Most recently, his work showed how Burkina Faso\u2019s increasing instability is putting thousands of gold mines in reach of jihadists, as well as how billions of dollars of gold are leaving Africa illegally through the United Arab Emirates. He has previously worked for The Dallas Morning News, the South Florida Sun-Sentinel and The Oklahoman. He is a graduate of Oklahoma State University.", "twitter_handle": null}, {"name": "Odean Serrano", "affiliation": "Countering Wildlife Trafficking Institute", "bio": "Dr. Odean Serrano worked for 26 years with NASA and the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, and she was designated the first intelligence community lead for combatting wildlife trafficking. Now retired, Odean founded the Countering Wildlife Trafficking Institute, which is designed to implement collaboration and systemic thinking to solve wildlife trafficking using cutting-edge geospatial tools, analysis and AI modeling to provide continuity to mission-driven intelligence and law enforcement priorities. 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His research, which explores species responses to climate change and other stressors, has been profiled by The New York Times, BBC News, The Wall Street Journal and Scientific American, among others.", "twitter_handle": "MJPolito"}, {"name": "Nancy Rabalais", "affiliation": "Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium", "bio": "", "twitter_handle": ""}, {"name": "Edward Shihadeh", "affiliation": "Louisiana State University", "bio": "", "twitter_handle": ""}, {"name": "Maurice Tamman", "affiliation": "Reuters", "bio": "Maurice Tamman is a reporter and editor on the Reuters enterprise unit based in New York City. Most recently he published \"Ocean Shock,\" an expansive examination of how climate change is causing chaos for fisheries around the planet. 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He is a fellow of both the ASA and INFORMS.", "twitter_handle": null}, {"name": "Sarah Cohen", "affiliation": "Walter Cronkite School of Journalism, Arizona State University", "bio": "Sarah Cohen is the Knight Chair in Journalism at the Walter Cronkite School at Arizona State University. Previously, she worked as the editor of a data reporting team at The New York Times focused on long-term enterprise and investigative stories, and as a database editor for The Washington Post. Her awards include the Pulitzer Prize in Investigative Reporting, the Goldsmith Prize and the IRE medal. 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You will leave this session armed with tools and tricks to quickly find information about both public and private figures.", "session_type": "Demo", "pre_registration": false, "skill_level": "General interest", "cost": "", "sold_out": false, "start_end": [{"start_datetime": "2020-03-06T11:30:00", "end_datetime": "2020-03-06T12:30:00", "duration_hrs": 1.0}], "byo_laptop": false, "room": "Acadia", "floor": "3rd", "speakers": [{"name": "Robert Evans", "affiliation": "Bellingcat", "bio": "Robert Evans has worked as a conflict journalist in Iraq, Syria, Ukraine, and at protests across the United States. He currently covers the far right and online radicalization for Bellingcat. 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Prior to joining Reuters he spent most of his career working in newspapers. He spent 12 years as an investigative/data reporter at The Record in New Jersey (2000-2006) and the New York Daily News (2006-2012).", "twitter_handle": null}, {"name": "J.B. Slaton", "affiliation": "Louisiana State Police", "bio": "Captain J.B. Slaton is the public affairs commander for the Louisiana State Police. He has 22 years of law enforcement experience, including over 18 years with the state police. Captain\u2019s Slaton\u2019s career experience includes corrections, uniformed patrol, internal affairs and public affairs. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Criminal Justice and a Master of Arts degree in Education and Homeland Security, and he is a graduate of the FBI National Academy.", "twitter_handle": null}], "keywords": ["foia", "from", "the", "flip", "side", "panel", "open", "records", "intermediate", "meg casper sunstrom", "deborah spiess henton", "benjamin lesser", "j.b. slaton"], "keywords_display": ["open records"], "multiday": false}, {"session_id": "2254", "slug": "20200307_the_life_of_a_data_story_going_from_data_to_narrative_2254", "session_title": "The life of a data story: Going from data to narrative", "canceled": false, "session_description": "Learn tactics for writing the data-laden investigation \u2014 from using best cases to illuminate your findings to organizing story elements into a compelling narrative and not a starchy data-dump. 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Before moving to Las Vegas, Hassan was an investigative reporter for the Houston Chronicle, where her award-winning reporting highlighted a massive backlog of untested rape kits, county jail abuses and failures in the criminal justice system that allowed a serial rapist in to go free for a decade.", "twitter_handle": null}, {"name": "Brooke Williams", "affiliation": "Boston University", "bio": "Brooke Williams is an investigative reporter who specializes in data journalism. Her work has contributed to a Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting, a George Polk Award and a Gerald Loeb Award, among others. She is an associate professor of the practice of computational journalism at Boston University and writes for The Intercept. 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We\u2019ll use R and some of its libraries to find and visualize stories in census data about New Orleans and Louisiana. \n\nThis class is best for: People who are comfortable with Excel and looking for something more powerful; beginner knowledge of R is good but not required.", "session_type": "Hands-on", "pre_registration": false, "skill_level": "Advanced", "cost": "", "sold_out": false, "start_end": [{"start_datetime": "2020-03-07T11:30:00", "end_datetime": "2020-03-07T12:30:00", "duration_hrs": 1.0}], "byo_laptop": false, "room": "Studio 8", "floor": "2nd", "speakers": [{"name": "Ronald Campbell", "affiliation": "NBC Owned Television Stations", "bio": "Ronald Campbell is data editor for NBC Owned Television Stations. He previously created the computer-assisted reporting program at the Orange County Register. He has won the IRE Award, the Loeb Award and placed in the Philip Meyer Award. He lives in Orange County, California, with his wife, kids and cat. When not getting frustrated with databases, he gets frustrated hiking.", "twitter_handle": "campbellronaldw"}], "keywords": ["making", "graphics", "with", "r", "(repeat)", "hands-on", "data", "viz", "&", "design", "TheRProgrammingLanguage", "advanced", "ronald campbell"], "keywords_display": ["data viz & design", "r"], "multiday": false}, {"session_id": "2282", "slug": "20200306_code_buddies_get_help_on_your_project_2282", "session_title": "Code buddies: Get help on your project", "canceled": false, "session_description": "Have some data and ideas but you're not sure what to do next? Trying something new you learned at NICAR and need someone to doublecheck your math? OpenNews and the Lonely Coder's Club* want to help you get past whatever's blocking your next data or code project. Bring your laptop and we'll work together to move your project forward. Everyone is welcome! If you let us know a little about your project in advance, we'll reach out to some peer experts who have just the right experience to help you out.\n\nRyan Pitts - twitter: @ryanpitts; email: ryan@opennews.org\nAlexandra Kanik - twitter: @act_rational; email: akanik@louisvillepublicmedia.org\n\n*The Lonely Coder's Club is a Slack community of newsroom data nerds and programmers who run solo or on small teams.", "session_type": "Commons", "pre_registration": false, "skill_level": "General interest", "cost": "", "sold_out": false, "start_end": [{"start_datetime": "2020-03-06T09:00:00", "end_datetime": "2020-03-06T10:00:00", "duration_hrs": 1.0}], "byo_laptop": false, "room": "Galerie 4", "floor": "2nd", "speakers": [{"name": "Alexandra Kanik", "affiliation": "Louisville Public Media", "bio": "Alexandra Kanik works for Louisville Public Media, the parent organization of Kentucky Center for Investigative Reporting and the Ohio Valley ReSource. 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In this session, two journalists dive into their data world to offer support and ideas for real stories you can turn, organizational tips, and how/where to dig in order to successfully produce impactful pieces.", "session_type": "Commons", "pre_registration": false, "skill_level": "General interest", "cost": "", "sold_out": false, "start_end": [{"start_datetime": "2020-03-07T14:15:00", "end_datetime": "2020-03-07T15:15:00", "duration_hrs": 1.0}], "byo_laptop": false, "room": "Galerie 4", "floor": "2nd", "speakers": [{"name": "Samah Assad", "affiliation": "CBS Chicago/WBBM", "bio": "Samah Assad, an investigative journalist and producer who has won Murrow and Emmy Awards, specializes in data analysis, FOIA and digital interactivity with CBS Chicago's investigative unit. She previously produced with the investigative unit at ABC in Cleveland and worked as a crime reporter with the Morning Journal in Ohio. Her reporting focuses on uncovering systemic failures, including police misconduct, government corruption, lack of transparency and waste of taxpayer money.", "twitter_handle": "SAssadNews"}, {"name": "Carolyn Thompson", "affiliation": "Independent journalist", "bio": "Carolyn Thompson is a Canadian freelance journalist based in Nairobi, Kenya. Her stories focus on displacement, human rights abuses and government corruption using tools such as public data, surveys and satellite imagery. She has reported for CBC, France 24, Al Jazeera, and The Washington Post, among others. She has also taught data journalism in Ghana, Kenya and Canada.", "twitter_handle": "caroethompson"}], "keywords": ["being", "scrappy:", "doing", "data", "journalism", "as", "a", "team", "of", "one", "commons", "work", "better", "general interest", "samah assad", "carolyn thompson"], "keywords_display": ["work better"], "multiday": false}, {"session_id": "2294", "slug": "20200305_datakit_install_party_2294", "session_title": "DataKit install party", "canceled": false, "session_description": "Looking for a way to tame the tangles of your data analysis projects? Try kicking the tires on DataKit, an open-source command-line tool designed to help journalists standardize project structures, easily share code and data, and publish data as part of story packages. Get up and running with existing workflows for the newsroom and classroom, or ask for help creating a customized workflow built around your own ecosystem of tools and services.\n\nDevelopers from The Associated Press and Stanford University will be on hand to help journalists install DataKit. To learn more about DataKit and how it could work for your newsroom, attend the demo immediately before this session in Galerie 3.", "session_type": "Commons", "pre_registration": false, "skill_level": "Intermediate", "cost": "", "sold_out": false, "start_end": [{"start_datetime": "2020-03-05T16:45:00", "end_datetime": "2020-03-05T17:45:00", "duration_hrs": 1.0}], "byo_laptop": false, "room": "Galerie 4", "floor": "2nd", "speakers": [{"name": "Larry Fenn", "affiliation": "The Associated Press", "bio": "Larry Fenn is a data journalist at the Associated Press. His background is in mathematics and statistics.", "twitter_handle": "larry_fenn"}, {"name": "Meghan Hoyer", "affiliation": "The Associated Press", "bio": "Meghan Hoyer is data editor at The Associated Press, where she analyzes data and helps disseminate national data sets to reporters across the country, guiding them to find local stories in the numbers. She previously worked at USA TODAY and The Virginian-Pilot.", "twitter_handle": "meghanhoyer"}, {"name": "Michelle Minkoff", "affiliation": "The Associated Press", "bio": "Michelle Minkoff has been a data journalist at The Associated Press since 2011. Minkoff designs and develops data visualizations and creates, cleans and analyzes data sets, with an interest in environmental reporting, recently completing a project on national dam safety. Previously, she worked at PBS and the Los Angeles Times. She also taught data journalism at Northwestern's Medill School, of which she is a 2010 graduate.", "twitter_handle": "michelleminkoff"}, {"name": "Serdar Tumgoren", "affiliation": "Stanford University", "bio": "Serdar Tumgoren teaches data journalism at Stanford University. He previously worked on data and news apps teams at The Associated Press, The Washington Post and Congressional Quarterly.", "twitter_handle": "zstumgoren"}], "keywords": ["datakit", "install", "party", "commons", "tools", "intermediate", "larry fenn", "meghan hoyer", "michelle minkoff", "serdar tumgoren"], "keywords_display": ["tools"], "multiday": false}, {"session_id": "2295", "slug": "20200305_datakit_workflow_automation_for_the_newsroom_and_classroom_2295", "session_title": "DataKit: Workflow automation for the newsroom and classroom", "canceled": false, "session_description": "Managing a data analysis project, from story idea to publication, shouldn't be so hard. The Associated Press will demonstrate how it uses DataKit, an open-source tool, to tame the tangles of your data analysis projects. Speakers will highlight features for producing standardized project structures, easily sharing code and data, and publishing data as part of a story package. The session will also show how Stanford University's journalism program is using DataKit in the classroom.\n\nFor help installing DataKit, attend the install party immediately following this session in Galerie 4.", "session_type": "Demo", "pre_registration": false, "skill_level": "Intermediate", "cost": "", "sold_out": false, "start_end": [{"start_datetime": "2020-03-05T15:30:00", "end_datetime": "2020-03-05T16:30:00", "duration_hrs": 1.0}], "byo_laptop": false, "room": "Galerie 3", "floor": "2nd", "speakers": [{"name": "Larry Fenn", "affiliation": "The Associated Press", "bio": "Larry Fenn is a data journalist at the Associated Press. 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This panel will explore when and why to break with convention, and when not to. We'll look at the best examples of unconventional data viz and show how you can mix up your own work in new and interesting ways.", "session_type": "Panel", "pre_registration": false, "skill_level": "Advanced", "cost": "", "sold_out": false, "start_end": [{"start_datetime": "2020-03-06T14:15:00", "end_datetime": "2020-03-06T15:15:00", "duration_hrs": 1.0}], "byo_laptop": false, "room": "Galerie 6", "floor": "2nd", "speakers": [{"name": "Agnes Chang", "affiliation": "ProPublica", "bio": "Agnes is a creative story technologist at ProPublica. Previously, she spent six years at The New York Times as a software engineer and product manager. She is also currently an adjunct professor at Columbia University.", "twitter_handle": "aggggnessss"}, {"name": "Jan Diehm", "affiliation": "The Pudding", "bio": "Jan Diehm is a journalist-engineer with The Pudding, where she uses data to craft visual stories. Before joining The Pudding, she had stops at CNN, The Guardian US, ABC News, HuffPost, the Baltimore Sun and the Hartford Courant. She appreciates the finer things in life: LEGO sets; southern delicacies like pimento cheese, fried green tomatoes and good bourbon; and vintage Britney Spears. She lives in San Antonio with her wife and two cats.", "twitter_handle": "jadiehm"}, {"name": "Scott Klein", "affiliation": "ProPublica", "bio": "Scott Klein is a deputy managing editor at ProPublica. He oversees ProPublica's visual and data journalism. He also manages ProPublica's Electionland project, which is\na large-scale cross-newsroom collaboration that covers voting and election integrity. Scott is also a co-founder of DocumentCloud and a board member of MuckRock.", "twitter_handle": "kleinmatic"}], "keywords": ["avant", "garde", "data", "viz", "panel", "data", "viz", "&", "design", "advanced", "agnes chang", "jan diehm", "scott klein"], "keywords_display": ["data viz & design"], "multiday": false}, {"session_id": "2308", "slug": "20200308_master_class_getting_ready_to_cover_census_2020_2308", "session_title": "Master class: Getting ready to cover Census 2020", "canceled": false, "session_description": "The 2020 census has already begun. In mid-March, it ramps up with a blizzard of millions of mailed invitations to respond. The data and story possibilities will follow almost immediately and continue through at least 2022. Are you ready? Especially if you have not covered a census, this workshop will prepare you to make a plan, gather the data, understand it and turn it into compelling stories.\n\nD'Vera Cohn and Paul Overberg have each been writing about the census since 1990. Dee, who covered census topics for The Washington Post before working for Pew Research, led five Poynter Institute 2020 census workshops for journalists over the past year. Paul led IRE-sponsored census training workshops and panels since 2000, and covered demographics for USA Today and The Wall Street Journal for more than 25 years.\n\nThis three-hour workshop will include:\n\n* What numbers are coming when?\n* Census-speak: Concepts and definitions to unlock the data and avoid newbie errors\n* Geography: Understanding the \"where\" to find stories from neighborhood to national\n* Seven stories any newsroom can do\n* Examples of great 2010 census stories\n* How census numbers can be used on every beat\n* Making a newsroom plan: How to pick your spots and get outside help too", "session_type": "Master Class", "pre_registration": false, "skill_level": "Beginner", "cost": "35", "sold_out": false, "start_end": [{"start_datetime": "2020-03-08T09:00:00", "end_datetime": "2020-03-08T12:30:00", "duration_hrs": 3.5}], "byo_laptop": false, "room": "Galerie 5", "floor": "2nd", "speakers": [{"name": "D\u2019Vera Cohn", "affiliation": "Pew Research Center", "bio": "D'Vera Cohn writes about demographics and immigration for Pew Research Center, where she has worked since 2007. Before that, she had a 21-year career as a Washington Post reporter covering the same topics. In the past year, she organized and taught five Poynter Institute journalism workshops about covering the 2020 census. The 2020 census will be the fourth she has written about.", "twitter_handle": "allthingscensus"}, {"name": "Paul Overberg", "affiliation": "Wall Street Journal", "bio": "Paul Overberg is a data reporter at The Wall Street Journal and a member of its investigative team. He focuses on economic and demographic stories but helps reporters working on many subjects. 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He joined the team in December 2018 and believes in supporting local watchdog reporting through data gathering, analysis and training. Before Stanford, he spent 20 years as an investigative reporter with The Seattle Times, sharing the 2018 Selden Ring Award, the 2015 Breaking News Pulitzer Prize and the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting.", "twitter_handle": null}], "keywords": ["newsroom", "open-source", "tool", "showcase", "demo", "tools", "intermediate", "justin mayo"], "keywords_display": ["tools"], "multiday": false}, {"session_id": "2326", "slug": "20200305_how_the_internet_works_so_you_can_scrape_the_web_2326", "session_title": "How the internet works (so you can scrape the web!)", "canceled": false, "session_description": "Need to scrape a web page? 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In this presentation Jeff Asher of AH Datalytics will go over the different types of available data throughout the criminal justice spectrum and give examples of how these data can be used both in terms of analyzing crime trends as well as building dashboards to better illustrate a story.", "session_type": "Demo", "pre_registration": false, "skill_level": "Intermediate", "cost": "", "sold_out": false, "start_end": [{"start_datetime": "2020-03-05T14:15:00", "end_datetime": "2020-03-05T15:15:00", "duration_hrs": 1.0}], "byo_laptop": false, "room": "Galerie 3", "floor": "2nd", "speakers": [{"name": "Jeff Asher", "affiliation": "AH Datalytics", "bio": "Jeff Asher is the co-founder of AH Datalytics, a data analytics consulting company based in New Orleans. Mr. Asher works as a public safety consultant for the New Orleans City Council and has served as a crime analyst for the New Orleans Police Department and Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office. His work has been featured nationally on FiveThirtyEight.com, The New York Times and more.", "twitter_handle": "Crimealytics"}], "keywords": ["using", "open", "crime", "and", "policing", "data", "demo", "crime", "intermediate", "jeff asher"], "keywords_display": ["crime"], "multiday": false}, {"session_id": "2380", "slug": "20200307_art_of_the_interview_2380", "session_title": "Art of the interview", "canceled": false, "session_description": "Learn proven strategies for managing the investigative interview, with tips on preparation, approaching difficult subjects and keeping the conversation on track.", "session_type": "Panel", "pre_registration": false, "skill_level": "General interest", "cost": "", "sold_out": false, "start_end": [{"start_datetime": "2020-03-07T11:30:00", "end_datetime": "2020-03-07T12:30:00", "duration_hrs": 1.0}], "byo_laptop": false, "room": "Galerie 2", "floor": "2nd", "speakers": [{"name": "Lauren McGaughy", "affiliation": "The Dallas Morning News", "bio": "Lauren McGaughy is an investigative reporter for The Dallas Morning News capitol bureau in Austin, Texas. She has covered Texas politics and policy for six years, focusing on everything from education and gun laws to criminal justice and issues pertinent to the LGBTQ community. She previously worked for The Houston Chronicle and New Orleans Times-Picayune. She loves cats and comic books and cooks a mean steak.", "twitter_handle": "lmcgaughy"}, {"name": "Tisha Thompson", "affiliation": "ESPN", "bio": "Tisha is an investigative reporter at ESPN, appearing on Outside the Lines, E:60 and SportsCenter. A member of ESPN's 2019 Peabody Award-winning team for \"Spartan Secrets,\u201d she also won the 2019 national Gracie Award for Best Online Video Host for espnW\u2019s \"Being Believed: A Conversation with Sister Survivors,\" which also received the 2019 Gold Telly Award for Best Online Talk Show. She\u2019s been a member of IRE/NICAR for more than 20 years.", "twitter_handle": null}, {"name": "Lee Zurik", "affiliation": "WVUE-TV", "bio": "Lee Zurik is an Evening News Anchor and Chief Investigative Reporter at WVUE-TV in New Orleans and Director of Investigations at Gray Television and Investigate TV.  Lee has been honored with many of journalism\u2019s top awards, including the Peabody, the duPont and the IRE Medal. Before Hurricane Katrina, Lee was a sports anchor/reporter. He taught himself to be an investigative reporter by reading IRE resources (books and tipsheets) and attending IRE conferences.", "twitter_handle": null}], "keywords": ["art", "of", "the", "interview", "panel", "interviewing", "general interest", "lauren mcgaughy", "tisha thompson", "lee zurik"], "keywords_display": ["interviewing"], "multiday": false}, {"session_id": "2384", "slug": "20200306_excel_tricks_youve_never_used_2384", "session_title": "Excel tricks you've never used", "canceled": false, "session_description": "Excel has so many tips, tricks and time-saving tools you might not know about, even if you're a whiz at CONCATENATE functions and PivotTables. You should pick up a few new tricks in this fast-paced and fun session. \n\nThis session is best for: Those with intermediate knowledge of spreadsheets.", "session_type": "Hands-on", "pre_registration": false, "skill_level": "Intermediate", "cost": "", "sold_out": false, "start_end": [{"start_datetime": "2020-03-06T11:30:00", "end_datetime": "2020-03-06T12:30:00", "duration_hrs": 1.0}], "byo_laptop": true, "room": "Studio 10", "floor": "2nd", "speakers": [{"name": "Denise Malan", "affiliation": "IRE & NICAR", "bio": "Denise Malan is IRE's Deputy Executive Director, overseeing all training programs, event logistics and the IRE Resource Center. She was a newspaper journalist for more than a decade, covering government, education, politics, the environment and more. After several years at the Corpus Christi Caller-Times in Texas, she joined IRE in 2013 in a joint position with the Institute for Nonprofit News, helping newsrooms around the country use data in their reporting.", "twitter_handle": "DeniseMalan"}], "keywords": ["excel", "tricks", "you've", "never", "used", "hands-on", "data", "wrangling", "excel", "intermediate", "denise malan"], "keywords_display": ["data wrangling", "excel"], "multiday": false}, {"session_id": "2387", "slug": "20200306_covering_disparities_in_education_with_data_2387", "session_title": "Covering disparities in education with data", "canceled": false, "session_description": "State and federal governments hold treasure troves of education data that reporters and news nerds can dig into to find great stories and hold schools accountable. Come learn how to parse the latest iteration of federal civil rights data (CRDC), which reveals resource and discipline inequities across the nation\u2019s +96,000 schools. Dive deep into school segregation data and mapping data. Find out how to use federal College Scorecard data to showcase debt and tuition inequities across the nation\u2019s +7,000 colleges. And hear an overview of the other great data sources that are available for education stories.\n\nThis session was sponsored by the Lumina Foundation. IRE retains control of content, including the topic and speaker selection, for all conference sessions.", "session_type": "Panel", "pre_registration": false, "skill_level": "General interest", "cost": "", "sold_out": false, "start_end": [{"start_datetime": "2020-03-06T14:15:00", "end_datetime": "2020-03-06T15:15:00", "duration_hrs": 1.0}], "byo_laptop": false, "room": "Galerie 2", "floor": "2nd", "speakers": [{"name": "Andrea Fuller", "affiliation": "The Wall Street Journal", "bio": "Andrea Fuller is a reporter for The Wall Street Journal in New York City who specializes in data analysis. She uses spreadsheets, databases and computer code to find stories. Ms. Fuller joined the Journal in April 2014. She previously was a data journalist at Gannett Digital, The Center for Public Integrity, and The Chronicle of Higher Education.", "twitter_handle": null}, {"name": "Bracey Harris", "affiliation": "The Hechinger Report", "bio": "Bracey Harris is a staff writer for The Hechinger Report. Prior to joining Hechinger, she covered politics and education for the Clarion Ledger, where she also focused on government accountability for the paper\u2019s investigative and enterprise team. The Magnolia State native sometimes bumps into her old high school principal on reporting assignments.", "twitter_handle": "braceyharris"}, {"name": "Annie Waldman", "affiliation": "ProPublica", "bio": "", "twitter_handle": ""}], "keywords": ["covering", "disparities", "in", "education", "with", "data", "panel", "education", "general interest", "andrea fuller", "bracey harris", "annie waldman"], "keywords_display": ["education"], "multiday": false}, {"session_id": "2395", "slug": "20200307_finding_the_story_in_property_records_2395", "session_title": "Finding the story in property records", "canceled": false, "session_description": "\u201cWho owns what\u201d is a classic reporting problem with a broad range of applications, whether you\u2019re breaking news or during investigative work. In this workshop, we\u2019d go over common types of property records that are likely kept by your local, county, and state governments\u2014including corporation filings that are useful for peeking behind pesky LLCs. We\u2019ll also point out a few common issues with this type of data (assessors and recorders usually don\u2019t share data!), pose general solutions to them (both with and without knowledge of coding languages), and walk through a sample scraper.", "session_type": "Demo", "pre_registration": false, "skill_level": "General interest", "cost": "", "sold_out": false, "start_end": [{"start_datetime": "2020-03-07T14:15:00", "end_datetime": "2020-03-07T15:15:00", "duration_hrs": 1.0}], "byo_laptop": false, "room": "Bissonet", "floor": "3rd", "speakers": [{"name": "Haru Coryne", "affiliation": "ProPublica Illinois", "bio": "Haru Coryne is a data reporter for ProPublica Illinois. He uses a combination of statistical methods, computer software and document-based research to find stories in large troves of information. A former real estate reporter covering Chicago, Miami and Los Angeles for The Real Deal, he is especially interested in housing and public finance.", "twitter_handle": null}], "keywords": ["finding", "the", "story", "in", "property", "records", "demo", "local", "government", "general interest", "haru coryne"], "keywords_display": ["local government"], "multiday": false}, {"session_id": "2399", "slug": "20200307_using_irs_nonprofit_data_and_decoding_990s_2399", "session_title": "Using IRS nonprofit data and decoding 990s", "canceled": false, "session_description": "Learn how to use nonprofit data from the IRS, including how to read a 990. This session will cover how to read key parts of the 990 for news and research purposes, how to use some of the IRS\u2019 own data files to learn more about how nonprofits in your state rank (including the filing extracts file, which contains a wealth of information and many people don\u2019t know about), and how to use Nonprofit Explorer\u2019s new full-text search.", "session_type": "Demo", "pre_registration": false, "skill_level": "Beginner", "cost": "", "sold_out": false, "start_end": [{"start_datetime": "2020-03-07T16:45:00", "end_datetime": "2020-03-07T17:45:00", "duration_hrs": 1.0}], "byo_laptop": false, "room": "Bissonet", "floor": "3rd", "speakers": [{"name": "Andrea Fuller", "affiliation": "The Wall Street Journal", "bio": "Andrea Fuller is a reporter for The Wall Street Journal in New York City who specializes in data analysis. She uses spreadsheets, databases and computer code to find stories. Ms. Fuller joined the Journal in April 2014. She previously was a data journalist at Gannett Digital, The Center for Public Integrity, and The Chronicle of Higher Education.", "twitter_handle": null}, {"name": "Ken Schwencke", "affiliation": "ProPublica", "bio": "Ken Schwencke is the editor of ProPublica's news applications team, which creates interactive databases and graphics. Ken has been with ProPublica since 2016, where he has worked on the award-winning Electionland project, ran Nonprofit Explorer and reported on LGBTQ issues and white supremacists. Previously, he worked on The New York Times\u2019 interactive news team and the Los Angeles Times data desk. ", "twitter_handle": "schwanksta"}], "keywords": ["using", "irs", "nonprofit", "data", "and", "decoding", "990s", "demo", "nonprofits", "beginner", "andrea fuller", "ken schwencke"], "keywords_display": ["nonprofits"], "multiday": false}, {"session_id": "2400", "slug": "20200307_finding_data_for_local_investigations_2400", "session_title": "Finding data for local investigations", "canceled": false, "session_description": "Local investigations present unique opportunities and challenges for journalists working with data. Local data is often thought of as sparse since smaller localities do not always have the resources necessary to document and open source their information. Similarly, small newsrooms don\u2019t always have the bandwidth to sponsor long-term and expensive data-collection initiatives. \n\nHowever, working with data at the local level also presents advantages. Local reporters have the opportunity to grow intimately familiar with the various types of information aggregated in their jurisdictions. Also working at a smaller scale can make a greater number of investigations possible. \n\nThis talk will shed light on how to find data for local investigations, and take advantage of the seemingly limited resource environment that local reporters draw from when seeking aggregate information for their stories.", "session_type": "Panel", "pre_registration": false, "skill_level": "General interest", "cost": "", "sold_out": false, "start_end": [{"start_datetime": "2020-03-07T11:30:00", "end_datetime": "2020-03-07T12:30:00", "duration_hrs": 1.0}], "byo_laptop": false, "room": "Acadia", "floor": "3rd", "speakers": [{"name": "Tyler Dukes", "affiliation": "WRAL News", "bio": "Tyler Dukes is an investigative reporter at WRAL News in Raleigh, North Carolina, where he specializes in data and public records. In 2017, he completed a fellowship at the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University and currently teaches at Duke University's DeWitt Wallace Center for Media & Democracy. Prior to joining WRAL, he worked as managing editor for Duke University\u2019s Reporters\u2019 Lab, a project to reduce the costs of investigative journalism.", "twitter_handle": "mtdukes"}, {"name": "Jenifer McKim", "affiliation": "New England Center for Investigative Reporting", "bio": "Jenifer McKim is a senior investigative reporter at WGBH's New England Center for Investigative Reporting and a professor of journalism at Boston University. She is a multimedia reporter focusing on topics including child welfare, sex trafficking and criminal justice. Her radio and print stories have received multiple awards, including a 2019 Edward R. 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She was previously a data reporter with New York Public Radio (WNYC) and Gothamist.", "twitter_handle": "lyllayounes"}], "keywords": ["finding", "data", "for", "local", "investigations", "panel", "story", "ideas", "general interest", "tyler dukes", "jenifer mckim", "lylla younes"], "keywords_display": ["story ideas"], "multiday": false}, {"session_id": "2402", "slug": "20200307_digital_security_hygiene_and_threat_modeling_for_journalists_2402", "session_title": "Digital security hygiene and threat modeling for journalists", "canceled": false, "session_description": "Details coming soon!", "session_type": "Panel", "pre_registration": false, "skill_level": "Advanced", "cost": "", "sold_out": false, "start_end": [{"start_datetime": "2020-03-07T15:30:00", "end_datetime": "2020-03-07T16:30:00", "duration_hrs": 1.0}], "byo_laptop": false, "room": "Bissonet", "floor": "3rd", "speakers": [{"name": "Kristen Kozinski", "affiliation": "The New York Times", "bio": "Kristen manages the security education program at The New York Times. Before joining The Times, she worked as an application security engineer and helped build secure coding education at email marketing platform Mailchimp. She is passionate about building accessible security education and resources for journalists around the world.", "twitter_handle": "dontclickonthat"}, {"name": "Rowen S", "affiliation": "Freedom of the Press Foundation", "bio": "Rowen is the newsroom services coordinator at Freedom of the Press Foundation, working with the SecureDrop and Digital Security teams.\n\nA former community organizer and software developer, Rowen combines privacy nerdery with the desire to make tech accessible and useful to those who need it.\n\n*Come find me at NICAR and ask me about secure tip-line workflows for newsrooms and freelancers, digital security, or how I learned to stop killing all of my houseplants.*", "twitter_handle": null}, {"name": "Mike Tigas", "affiliation": "ProPublica", "bio": "Mike is a hacker-journalist at ProPublica, where he works on news applications, network infrastructure and digital security. 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She previously worked at Univision, Medium and Americas Society/Council of the Americas, in addition to freelancing.", "twitter_handle": null}], "keywords": ["collaborate", "tool", "demo", "tools", "general interest", "rachel glickhouse"], "keywords_display": ["tools"], "multiday": false}, {"session_id": "2410", "slug": "20200307_community_powered_data_collection_enlisting_your_audience_to_help_power_investigations_2410", "session_title": "Community-powered data collection: Enlisting your audience to help power investigations", "canceled": false, "session_description": "This panel will walk through key considerations in doing \u201ccommunity-powered\u201d data journalism, in which the public is enlisted to build tools, collect data, share records or dig through documents. 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