| subject |
start_time - end_time |
location |
| TechRaking 5ish: Bootstrapping the news (Sponsored by The Center for Investigative Reporting) |
1:00:00 p.m. - 5:00:00 p.m. |
Chesapeake |
| CAR Conference Registration (Wednesday) |
2:00:00 p.m. - 5:00:00 p.m. |
University Ballroom |
| Detecting corporate fraud (Sponsored by Donald W. Reynolds National Center for Business Journalism) |
2:00:00 p.m. - 5:00:00 p.m. |
Salon DEF |
| CAR Conference Registration (Thursday) |
7:30 a.m. - 5:00:00 p.m. |
University Ballroom |
| CAR Conference Sales (Thursday) |
7:30 a.m. - 5:00:00 p.m. |
University Ballroom |
| Welcome and overview of the conference |
8:30 a.m. - 8:50 a.m. |
Grand Ballroom West |
| Getting started: Controlling CAR conference overload |
9:00:00 a.m. - 9:50 p.m. |
Grand Ballroom West |
| PyCAR Mini Boot Camp - Team A |
9:00:00 a.m. - 4:50 p.m. |
Stadium 5 |
| Getting started with open-source database manager MySQL |
9:00:00 a.m. - 9:50 a.m. |
Stadium 3 |
| Rifling through the mapping toolbox |
9:00:00 a.m. - 9:50 a.m. |
Salon DEF |
| Amazon Cloud Basics |
9:00:00 a.m. - 9:50 a.m. |
Stadium 4 |
| Mapping Mini Boot Camp |
9:00:00 a.m. - 4:50 p.m. |
Stadium 2 |
| This just in: Data for breaking news investigations |
9:00:00 a.m. - 9:50 a.m. |
Salon BC |
| Media as data-illuminating the undiscovered country of television news |
9:00:00 a.m. - 9:50 a.m. |
Chesapeake |
| Tableau Public for beginners (Hosted by Tableau) |
9:00:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. |
Stadium 1 |
| PyCAR Mini Boot Camp - Team B |
9:00:00 a.m. - 4:50 p.m. |
Salon A |
| NewsCamp::The next generation of data viz |
9:00:00 a.m. - 9:50 a.m. |
Grand Ballroom East |
| Getting started with open-source database manager MySQL Part II |
10:00:00 a.m. - 10:50 a.m. |
Stadium 3 |
| NewsCamp::Intro to D3 |
10:00:00 a.m. - 11:50 a.m. |
Grand Ballroom East |
| Enhance your stories with statistics |
10:00:00 a.m. - 10:50 a.m. |
Salon DEF |
| Make dirty data shine with OpenRefine |
10:00:00 a.m. - 10:50 a.m. |
Stadium 4 |
| Follow the fracking |
10:00:00 a.m. - 10:50 a.m. |
Salon BC |
| Use FOIA Machine to prepare, send and track your public records requests |
10:00:00 a.m. - 10:50 a.m. |
Chesapeake |
| The data-driven story (Part 1) Conceiving and launching |
10:00:00 a.m. - 10:50 a.m. |
Grand Ballroom West |
| Torturing Excel into doing stats |
11:00:00 a.m. - 11:50 a.m. |
Stadium 4 |
| Maps and charts in R: real newsroom examples |
11:00:00 a.m. - 11:50 a.m. |
Stadium 3 |
| The data-driven story (Part 2) Putting the package together |
11:00:00 a.m. - 11:50 a.m. |
Grand Ballroom West |
| Dig into business with data investigations |
11:00:00 a.m. - 11:50 a.m. |
Salon BC |
| Love your life, retire your servers |
11:00:00 a.m. - 11:50 a.m. |
Salon DEF |
| FollowTheMoney: Lead the pack in tracking campaign finance |
11:00:00 a.m. - 11:50 a.m. |
Chesapeake |
| Tableau Public for pros (Hosted by Tableau) |
1:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. |
Stadium 1 |
| NewsCamp: The next generation of data viz (Beginner) |
2:00:00 p.m. - 4:50 p.m. |
Stadium 4 |
| NewsCamp: The next generation of data viz (Advanced) |
2:00:00 p.m. - 4:50 p.m. |
See printed schedule for room information |
| The customized Census: How to use microdata when you just can't find the right table |
2:00:00 p.m. - 2:50 p.m. |
Chesapeake |
| Free tools for data analysis |
2:00:00 p.m. - 2:50 p.m. |
Salon DEF |
| Hacks or Hackers? |
2:00:00 p.m. - 2:50 p.m. |
Grand Ballroom East |
| Killers and other criminals: Keeping tabs on crime |
2:00:00 p.m. - 2:50 p.m. |
Salon BC |
| The data-driven story (Part 3): Bulletproofing and presentation |
2:00:00 p.m. - 2:50 p.m. |
Grand Ballroom West |
| Make reporting better, together â Collaborative reporting with GitHub |
3:00:00 p.m. - 3:50 p.m. |
Chesapeake |
| Save the data: going from zip (drive) to news by rescuing, analyzing old data |
3:00:00 p.m. - 3:50 p.m. |
Grand Ballroom West |
| When data don't exist |
3:00:00 p.m. - 3:50 p.m. |
Salon DEF |
| Docs! Docs! Docs! |
3:00:00 p.m. - 3:50 p.m. |
Grand Ballroom East |
| Breaking out the heavy artillery - using data to track weapons |
3:00:00 p.m. - 3:50 p.m. |
Salon BC |
| The Investigative Dashboard â Tools to expose organized crime and corruption around the world. |
4:00:00 p.m. - 4:50 p.m. |
Chesapeake |
| Investigating infrastructure: The National Inventory of Dams |
4:00:00 p.m. - 4:50 p.m. |
Salon BC |
| Harnessing the power of the crowd |
4:00:00 p.m. - 4:50 p.m. |
Salon DEF |
| How the internet watches you |
4:00:00 p.m. - 4:50 p.m. |
Grand Ballroom East |
| Tools for cracking PDFs |
4:00:00 p.m. - 4:50 p.m. |
Grand Ballroom West |
| CAR Conference Registration (Friday) |
8:00:00 a.m. - 5:00:00 p.m. |
University Ballroom |
| CAR Conference Sales (Friday) |
8:00:00 a.m. - 5:00:00 p.m. |
University Ballroom |
| Finding great stories in not-so-great nonprofits |
9:00:00 a.m. - 9:50 a.m. |
Salon DEF |
| It's a disaster |
9:00:00 a.m. - 9:50 a.m. |
Salon BC |
| The year in CAR in odorama |
9:00:00 a.m. - 9:50 a.m. |
Grand Ballroom East |
| A tour of the new Census Reporter |
9:00:00 a.m. - 9:50 a.m. |
Chesapeake |
| Fusion Tables for beginners |
9:00:00 a.m. - 9:50 a.m. |
Stadium 4 |
| Intro to JavaScript |
9:00:00 a.m. - 9:50 a.m. |
Stadium 5 |
| Holding algorithms accountable |
9:00:00 a.m. - 9:50 a.m. |
Grand Ballroom West |
| Getting started with Excel |
9:00:00 a.m. - 9:50 a.m. |
Stadium 1 |
| Build your first News App (Friday) |
9:00:00 a.m. - 11:50 a.m. |
Stadium 3 |
| Advanced functions in Excel |
9:00:00 a.m. - 9:50 a.m. |
Salon A |
| Statistics: an introduction |
9:00:00 a.m. - 9:50 a.m. |
Stadium 2 |
| Liberate data from PDFs with Tabula |
10:00:00 a.m. - 10:50 a.m. |
Salon A |
| Free the data: Getting government agencies to give up the goods |
10:00:00 a.m. - 10:50 a.m. |
Grand Ballroom West |
| Powerful data science tools without an engineering degree |
10:00:00 a.m. - 10:50 a.m. |
Chesapeake |
| Using formulas in Excel |
10:00:00 a.m. - 10:50 a.m. |
Stadium 1 |
| Introduction to R |
10:00:00 a.m. - 10:50 a.m. |
Stadium 5 |
| Proper workflows for data projects |
10:00:00 a.m. - 10:50 a.m. |
Grand Ballroom East |
| Wading through the sea of data on hospitals, doctors, medicine and more |
10:00:00 a.m. - 10:50 a.m. |
Salon BC |
| Statistics: basic linear regression |
10:00:00 a.m. - 10:50 a.m. |
Stadium 2 |
| Complaints: A road map for killer investigations |
10:00:00 a.m. - 10:50 a.m. |
Salon DEF |
| Grab data from the Web with Helium Scraper |
10:00:00 a.m. - 10:50 a.m. |
Stadium 4 |
| Pivot tables for stories |
11:00:00 a.m. - 11:50 a.m. |
Stadium 1 |
| Analyze networks with NodeXL |
11:00:00 a.m. - 11:50 a.m. |
Stadium 4 |
| More than an editor: Leadership for data-driven projects |
11:00:00 a.m. - 11:50 a.m. |
Salon BC |
| Mapping from the desktop to the web |
11:00:00 a.m. - 11:50 a.m. |
Stadium 5 |
| Git and GitHub 101 â Create your first pull request today! |
11:00:00 a.m. - 11:50 a.m. |
Salon A |
| PoliInformatics research challenge : New methods for computational investigations of the financial crisis |
11:00:00 a.m. - 11:50 a.m. |
Chesapeake |
| Campaign Finance I: Mining FEC data |
11:00:00 a.m. - 11:50 a.m. |
Salon DEF |
| Cooking with hardware |
11:00:00 a.m. - 11:50 a.m. |
Grand Ballroom West |
| Statistics: logistic regression |
11:00:00 a.m. - 11:50 a.m. |
Stadium 2 |
| Creating maps: Principles, mistakes and potential |
11:00:00 a.m. - 11:50 a.m. |
Grand Ballroom East |
| Student brown bag: What do you mean I canât have that public record? |
12:30 p.m. - 1:30 p.m. |
Salon BC |
| Create your own interactive newsgame in 50 minutes! |
2:00:00 p.m. - 2:50 p.m. |
Stadium 5 |
| Social media for investigations |
2:00:00 p.m. - 2:50 p.m. |
Grand Ballroom West |
| Building charts and graphs that are connected to live data |
2:00:00 p.m. - 2:50 p.m. |
Chesapeake |
| The customized Census: Using microdata |
2:00:00 p.m. - 2:50 p.m. |
Salon A |
| Mini Boot Camp |
2:00:00 p.m. - 3:50 p.m. |
See printed schedule for room information |
| Investigating racial inequality |
2:00:00 p.m. - 2:50 p.m. |
Salon BC |
| Intro To SQLite |
2:00:00 p.m. - 2:50 p.m. |
Stadium 4 |
| Protecting your work from prying eyes |
2:00:00 p.m. - 2:50 p.m. |
Grand Ballroom East |
| Building maps with leaflet and mapbox.js |
2:00:00 p.m. - 2:50 p.m. |
Stadium 3 |
| Campaign Finance II: Going beyond the data |
2:00:00 p.m. - 2:50 p.m. |
Salon DEF |
| Grabbing data from websites: tips and tricks |
3:00:00 p.m. - 3:50 p.m. |
Stadium 5 |
| How PANDA works: Software architecture for big data |
3:00:00 p.m. - 3:50 p.m. |
Chesapeake |
| Using Excel for statistics |
3:00:00 p.m. - 3:50 p.m. |
Salon A |
| DataViz for everyone: A practical guide to going responsive |
3:00:00 p.m. - 3:50 p.m. |
Grand Ballroom West |
| Weathering the storm: Using data to track nature's fury |
3:00:00 p.m. - 3:50 p.m. |
Salon BC |
| SQLite for command line |
3:00:00 p.m. - 3:50 p.m. |
Stadium 4 |
| 100+ tips and tools for news research |
3:00:00 p.m. - 3:50 p.m. |
Grand Ballroom East |
| 50 ideas in 50 minutes |
3:00:00 p.m. - 3:50 p.m. |
Salon DEF |
| Everyday scripting |
3:00:00 p.m. - 3:50 p.m. |
Stadium 3 |
| Lightning talks (Sponsored by John S. and James L. Knight Foundation) |
4:15 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. |
Grand Ballroom East |
| Philip Meyer Award Reception |
5:30 p.m. - 6:45 p.m. |
University Ballroom |
| CAR Conference Sales (Saturday) |
8:30 a.m. - 5:00:00 p.m. |
University Ballroom |
| CAR Conference Registration (Saturday) |
8:30 a.m. - 5:00:00 p.m. |
University Ballroom |
| Getting started with SQL |
9:00:00 a.m. - 9:50 a.m. |
Stadium 2 |
| Build your first News App (Saturday) |
9:00:00 a.m. - 11:50 a.m. |
Stadium 3 |
| Threat modeling: Security for your story |
9:00:00 a.m. - 9:50 a.m. |
Grand Ballroom East |
| Danger! Hazardous materials: Using data to uncover pollution |
9:00:00 a.m. - 9:50 a.m. |
Salon BC |
| Introduction to mapping: Importing and displaying data geographically with QGIS |
9:00:00 a.m. - 9:50 a.m. |
Stadium 1 |
| Incorporating data into your beat |
9:00:00 a.m. - 9:50 a.m. |
Salon DEF |
| How to feel like you're hacking without really doing it |
9:00:00 a.m. - 9:50 a.m. |
Stadium 4 |
| My friend FRED: A free tool for searching and graphing business, economic and government data |
9:00:00 a.m. - 9:50 a.m. |
Salon A |
| The art and craft of finding people |
9:00:00 a.m. - 9:50 a.m. |
Grand Ballroom West |
| Ruby 1: Introduction |
9:00:00 a.m. - 9:50 a.m. |
Stadium 5 |
| Political framing: Computational analysis of rhetoric in large text datasets |
9:00:00 a.m. - 9:50 a.m. |
Chesapeake |
| docHive: Pulling structured data from scanned PDFs |
10:00:00 a.m. - 10:50 a.m. |
Salon A |
| Counting and summing with SQL |
10:00:00 a.m. - 10:50 a.m. |
Stadium 2 |
| An app for that: Mobile tech and tools for reporting |
10:00:00 a.m. - 10:50 a.m. |
Grand Ballroom West |
| Building a data journalism course |
10:00:00 a.m. - 10:50 a.m. |
Salon BC |
| A quick trip through data in the sciences |
10:00:00 a.m. - 10:50 a.m. |
Grand Ballroom East |
| Ruby 2: Acquiring and transforming data |
10:00:00 a.m. - 10:50 a.m. |
Stadium 5 |
| Mapping 2: Manipulating and editing geographic data with QGIS |
10:00:00 a.m. - 10:50 a.m. |
Stadium 1 |
| DocumentCloud |
10:00:00 a.m. - 10:50 a.m. |
Stadium 4 |
| Journalists - Staying safe in a digital world |
10:00:00 a.m. - 10:50 a.m. |
Chesapeake |
| How to uncover inequity and swindlers in subsidized housing programs near you |
10:00:00 a.m. - 10:50 a.m. |
Salon DEF |
| It's not just for looks: Presentation as a storytelling tool |
11:00:00 a.m. - 11:50 a.m. |
Grand Ballroom East |
| PostGIS & CartoDB |
11:00:00 a.m. - 11:50 a.m. |
Stadium 4 |
| A picture of Earth through time: Storytelling with Google Earth Engine |
11:00:00 a.m. - 11:50 a.m. |
Chesapeake |
| People and patterns: The network behind the story |
11:00:00 a.m. - 11:50 a.m. |
Salon DEF |
| Go! Go! In the hot seat with breaking news |
11:00:00 a.m. - 11:50 a.m. |
Salon A |
| Excel magic: Advanced functions in Excel |
11:00:00 a.m. - 11:50 a.m. |
Stadium 1 |
| Joining tables with SQL |
11:00:00 a.m. - 11:50 a.m. |
Stadium 2 |
| Examining prescribing patterns (Phil Meyer Award winner) |
11:00:00 a.m. - 11:50 a.m. |
Salon BC |
| Ruby 3: Simple web apps with Ruby |
11:00:00 a.m. - 11:50 a.m. |
Stadium 5 |
| The fine art of negotiating for data |
11:00:00 a.m. - 11:50 a.m. |
Grand Ballroom West |
| NewsCamp::Demystifying D3 |
2:00:00 p.m. - 2:50 p.m. |
Grand Ballroom East |
| Regular expressions |
2:00:00 p.m. - 2:50 p.m. |
Salon A |
| OpenElections year-in-review |
2:00:00 p.m. - 2:50 p.m. |
Chesapeake |
| Mini Boot Camp - Saturday |
2:00:00 p.m. - 4:50 p.m. |
See printed schedule for room information |
| Inside the global offshore money maze |
2:00:00 p.m. - 2:50 p.m. |
Grand Ballroom West |
| Advanced GitHubbing and Git Internals |
2:00:00 p.m. - 2:50 p.m. |
Stadium 5 |
| Unlocking secrets of Excel to cover economics and business |
2:00:00 p.m. - 2:50 p.m. |
Stadium 4 |
| Getting started with Python |
2:00:00 p.m. - 2:50 p.m. |
Stadium 3 |
| "Mind the Gap" --- Holes in your data can lead you to stories |
2:00:00 p.m. - 2:50 p.m. |
Salon DEF |
| Inspecting the inspectors: Using inspection data to drive your stories |
2:00:00 p.m. - 2:50 p.m. |
Salon BC |
| Data deep dives (part 1) |
3:00:00 p.m. - 3:50 p.m. |
Salon DEF |
| You won't believe what static site generators can do for news apps |
3:00:00 p.m. - 3:50 p.m. |
Chesapeake |
| CAR wash: Clean that dirty data |
3:00:00 p.m. - 3:50 p.m. |
Salon A |
| Python: Beyond the basics I |
3:00:00 p.m. - 3:50 p.m. |
Stadium 3 |
| Beyond the basics: Advanced SQL for analysis |
3:00:00 p.m. - 3:50 p.m. |
Stadium 4 |
| Open data: Practical tips and current issues |
3:00:00 p.m. - 3:50 p.m. |
Grand Ballroom West |
| Crossing the language boundaries across your newsroom: journo to dev and back |
3:00:00 p.m. - 3:50 p.m. |
Grand Ballroom East |
| Getting data into Excel |
3:00:00 p.m. - 3:50 p.m. |
Stadium 5 |
| It's not on the exam: Exploring data beyond standardized tests on the education beat |
3:00:00 p.m. - 3:50 p.m. |
Salon BC |
| Cross-platform collaboration for data projects |
4:00:00 p.m. - 4:50 p.m. |
Salon BC |
| Digging online for global data |
4:00:00 p.m. - 4:50 p.m. |
Grand Ballroom East |
| Lyra: Custom visualization design without programming |
4:00:00 p.m. - 4:50 p.m. |
Stadium 5 |
| Data deep dives (part 2) |
4:00:00 p.m. - 4:50 p.m. |
Salon DEF |
| The latest from Sunlight |
4:00:00 p.m. - 4:50 p.m. |
Chesapeake |
| Python: Beyond the basics II |
4:00:00 p.m. - 4:50 p.m. |
Stadium 3 |
| Make dirty data shine with OpenRefine (repeat) |
4:00:00 p.m. - 4:50 p.m. |
Salon A |
| When to scrape: Tools and techniques |
4:00:00 p.m. - 4:50 p.m. |
Grand Ballroom West |
| Even more with R |
4:00:00 p.m. - 4:50 p.m. |
Stadium 4 |
| Static vs. Dynamic: It's time for the super-friendly cage match you've been waiting for! |
5:30 p.m. - 6:30 p.m. |
Lobby bar |
| CAR Conference Sales (Sunday) |
8:30 a.m. - 10:30 a.m. |
University Ballroom |
| Census I: Must-have data for every beat |
9:00:00 a.m. - 9:50 a.m. |
Grand Ballroom West |
| Advanced searching techniques |
9:00:00 a.m. - 9:50 a.m. |
Salon DEF |
| How to deal with millions of documents without losing your mind (and time) |
9:00:00 a.m. - 9:50 a.m. |
Chesapeake |
| Installation party |
9:00:00 a.m. - 10:50 a.m. |
Salon A |
| Mini Boot Camp - Sunday |
9:00:00 a.m. - 11:50 a.m. |
See printed schedule for room information |
| Tools for Social Network Analysis investigations |
9:00:00 a.m. - 11:50 a.m. |
Salon BC |
| Intro to Fusion Tables |
9:00:00 a.m. - 9:50 a.m. |
Stadium 4 |
| Where do you want to go: Career roundtable |
9:00:00 a.m. - 9:50 a.m. |
Grand Ballroom East |
| Data cleaning in Excel |
10:00:00 a.m. - 10:50 a.m. |
Stadium 4 |
| Build your bot army |
10:00:00 a.m. - 10:50 a.m. |
Salon DEF |
| Census II: Going beyond the basics |
10:00:00 a.m. - 10:50 a.m. |
Grand Ballroom West |
| OpenElections hackathon |
10:00:00 a.m. - 6:00:00 p.m. |
Chesapeake |
| Web tools, tips and tricks for investigations |
10:00:00 a.m. - 10:50 a.m. |
Grand Ballroom East |
| What's the deal with data science? |
11:00:00 a.m. - 11:50 a.m. |
Grand Ballroom East |
| Census III: Mapping and presentation |
11:00:00 a.m. - 11:50 a.m. |
Grand Ballroom West |
| A tour of IRE and NICAR (Make the most of your membership) |
11:00:00 a.m. - 11:50 a.m. |
Stadium 4 |
| Feel like you're hacking without really doing it |
11:00:00 a.m. - 11:50 a.m. |
Salon DEF |