CAR 2012

NICAR: Annual conference devoted to computer-assisted reporting

137 speakers

Coverage of CAR 2012

125 sessions

Day 1 Thursday 23rd February 2012

29 sessions presented by 50 speakers

• Data Journalism 12
• Data Visualization 2
• Python 2
• Computer Assisted Reporting 2
• Tableau 2
• Journalism 1
• Natural Language Processing 1
• Mobile 1
• Computational Linguistics 1
• Cheating 1
• jQuery 1
• Freedom of Information 1
• Investigative Journalism 1
• Mapping 1
• Tablets 1
• Business Model 1
• Social Media 1
• Google Docs 1
• eBooks 1
• Unstructured Data 1

Day 2 Friday 24th February 2012

46 sessions presented by 71 speakers

• SPSS 3
• Fusion Tables 2
• Excel 2
• Data Journalism 2
• Statistics 1
• JavaScript 1
• Mapping 1
• Elections 1
• Data Visualization 1
• SQLite 1
• Google Refine 1
• Computer Assisted Reporting 1

Day 3 Saturday 25th February 2012

45 sessions presented by 59 speakers

• Journalism 4
• Data Journalism 4
• Computer Assisted Reporting 3
• Data Quality 2
• Census 1
• Web Scraping 1
• ArcGIS 1
• Education 1
• Open Government 1
• Cryptography 1
• Future 1
• ArcView 1
• Mapping 1
• R 1
• Statistics 1
• Real Time 1
• Security 1
• GIS 1
• Unstructured Data 1

Day 4 Sunday 26th February 2012

• 9:00am Data U: The databases you need to cover higher ed

• 9:00am Webscraping / data munging with Python

• 9:00am Mining the web for data and stories

• 10:00am Storyboarding your ideas

• 10:00am A day in the life of a News App: An intro to Internet infrastructure

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