A firehose of knowledge blasted through a garden sprinkler
This year’s NICAR conference will feature lightning talks: a series of rapid-fire presentations given by you on a mix of subjects selected by you. It’s called democracy, folks, and we want you to be part of it.
How does this work? It’s simple: Register an account to vote on the talks you’d like to hear. Or better yet, propose one yourself! It can be on technology or techniques — just about anything, really. There’s just one rule: It can’t be one second longer than 5 minutes.
OK, actually two rules: You must attend NICAR to vote or, obviously, give a talk. But that’s about all there is to it.
If you have questions, or problems with the site, drop an email to aron@nytimes.com.
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Hack that App for Data
With a cheap tool usually used by Webworkers, you can easily see what data comes in and out your (i)phone (and its apps). Also, you can "hack" google map apps and other stuff very fast. And did i tell you all data is searchable? And replayable? Also, its easy and fun.
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ILENE
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Git is my time machine
Database backup tools kinda suck. But a SQL dump is just a text file. What if we stashed that in a git repo? Then we'd have a versioned, distributed backup. Until Github shuts down my account.
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GeocodeAddressesJustWithGoogleSpreadsheet
I will use cutting edge cut and paste techniques to geocode addresses in a Google spreadsheet. No programming, no code, one simple formula. Cut, paste, click. If someone brings a toddler, he or she can demonstrate and this talk will still take less than two minutes.
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Squeezing PDF's
The challenge is how to make information contained in scrapped PDF's, text or numbers, usefull in terms of accessibility and/or handling.
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Infiltrate the ad department!
We know how to look at content and see a database model, we're willing to rebuild systems in our own image, and we're used to making things useful for readers. We're also lazy, so we make things as simple and automated as possible. I'll give a quick walkthrough of how we used our news nerd powers to pitch and build a flexible mobile advertising system that doesn't suck.
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Old-school data liberation: Lessons from OpenMissouri.org
Like it or not, much of the data we need is kept offline by government agencies, out of the reach of your fancy-schmancy programming languages. Learn how you can uncover info about hundreds of data sets in your state with a little charm and persistence.
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<Clever title here> about Github
Version control, code-sharing, geek networking - get it all in one convenient, (mostly) free package.
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Everything is Broken
The computer systems we use every day are filled to the brim with hacks, bugs, and weird decisions. Let me take you on a tour of why nothing works. I'll crash my computer by the end, that's a promise.
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CoffeeScript: What it is and why it's cool
Nothing goes together better than coffee and code do. CoffeeScript makes writing JavaScript much nicer. This simple demo shows off a little code in both languages and an example coffeescript workflow.
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Make the story shine
Design usually takes a back seat to data crunching — after all, slick gradients never exposed speeding cops or slimy politicians, right? But following a few basic rules of thumb can help ensure that your cold hard facts have clarity, impact, and accessibility. I'll share a few tips that are easy to implement but make a big difference to your audience.
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When you can't or shouldn't do it alone
In some cases, it makes sense for news organizations to outsource parts of their data and application building functions. Tips on working with consultants in a news environment, including setting parameters, payment, deadlines.
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What is... The Lambda Calculus?
Dan Brown's next novel? No, It's what makes LISP and JavaScript and Scala wonderful. And it's also a way to represent human language. And it's even related to how we use SQL to query data sets.
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A little love for the print side
Save some newsroom wrists by creating on-demand downloads of styled text. What can be delivered? Any text your web app can produce. Examples: tables of election results or sports scores, crime calls, event calendars, movie listings, restaurant lists. This approach uses a Django framework and assumes the recipient is using InDesign or InCopy. Could be adapted for other frameworks and print design software (Quark?).
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iPad apps for Early Risers
5 Apps that you should open before 7am each morning.
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DisJOINted
Don't know the difference between an inner and outer join? After 10 minutes, you will. And I'll throw in some cool tips you can use with your favorite database manger, such as using JOINs instead of a WHERE clause and to find pesky orphaned data. We may even have time for questions and pictures of Aron's cat.
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Pimp your Browser
Five browser extensions you should use every day across both Firefox and Chrome.
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A Twitter Chat for Every Day of the Week
A talk on five twitter chats that everyone should know about, participate in, and love.
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From RSS to your inbox
A great alternative to having to go to an RSS reader, FeedMyInBox takes RSS updates and sends them, in digest form, to your email inbox. Makes for easy access and fast scanning.
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"So remind me, how did I do that?" Maintaining your lab book
As our methodologies become more complex, it becomes increasingly important that analytic journalists maintain their "lab book" of who did what to what, when and how. NoteSync is a great little pop-up tool for making those notes, syncing them straight-away to Google Docs and, there, share them with colleagues or access them from any browser. Cost? $5!
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Create a sortable HTML table from an Excel spreadsheet
Demo of a quick way to build an HTML table, ready to be placed on a web page, from an Excel spreadsheet. I'll show an Excel plugin to easily export a spreadsheet in JSON, a format readily used on Web pages, and how to incorporate it with a jQuery plugin to make a sortable HTML table. Yes, it can be done in 5 minutes!
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Cats! Cats! Cats!
This presentation will be nothing but pictures of cats! Cute cats, fat cats, skinny cats! Cats! Cats! Cats! Oh, but how about kittens you ask? Will this presentation include kittens? Yes! Kittens and cats!
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Be A Fulbright Scholar or Specialist
You don't need a PhD to be part of the Fulbright program. Accomplished professionals with skills like yours are in demand around the world. Learn what it takes to apply and be selected for a chance to live and teach up to a year in some exotic place, with a stipend and living expenses covered.
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WordPress plugin development
You've taken some programming classes and know about variables, forms and functions. Now where do you start hacking? Get up and running quickly in a familiar environment with the WordPress plugin API. Built-in hooks and SQL calls make it simple to rejigger the world's most popular CMS however you see fit: geocode posts, curate twitter feeds, and otherwise make your blog/news site do stuff it didn't before. Caution: PHP ahead.
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Building Hyper-Local Wikis with Wisci
Wikipedia is great for "notable" subjects, but what if you want a wiki for your City Council or Planning Commission? The unstructured source data is out there, and Wisci helps users understand and use that data. Wisci builds on top of an advanced statistical inference engine and extracts meaning from the underlying data. We'll demonstrate how Wisci extracted information from terabytes of video, legislative documents, OCRed scans, webcrawls and news article archives for Madison, WI to assist in the creation of a Madison politics and government wiki.
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Finding money governments don't know what to do with
Recent changes in government accounting standards allow journalists to determine how much money government agencies are piling up in reserves in a way they couldn't do before. Here's how it works.
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Don't Hate the CMS, Subvert It
Those of us who build News Apps usually scorn the CMS, yet this often comes at the cost of traffic to our own sites. This talk will look at some strategies of pushing app promos into the CMS at the NYT and elsewhere.
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Pretending to be a real programmer
Lots of new tools are cropping up every day. Learning techniques are good, learning how to learn them are better. I'll share five not-so-secret secrets that can help us work more efficiently, bring the dreams in our heads to life, and(hopefully) keep us from going totally insane in the process.
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Interactive mapping with GeoDjango and Raphael
Want to make custom thematic maps without Flash? Learn how the Los Angeles Times uses GeoDjango and the Raphael JavaScript library to create interactive, vector based maps that load in everything from IE7 to an iPad.
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What Zen Buddhism can teach you about creativity.
Whether you are a reporter starting on a story or a developer taking on a new app, how you approach it from the very beginning stages of the idea shapes how it will turn out. Believe it or not, Zen Buddhism has some advice on how you should approach your data app or investigative series. And it has something to do with tea.
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We Don't Need No Stinking SQL: MongoDB in Production
So you need to build a production MongoDB infrastructure. But the docs are atrocious! See: The horror of the monsterous configuration node! Hear: The wails of improperly sharded collections! Smell: The piquant scent of an undocumented REST API! We'll have a fully replicated and sharded architecture working in less than 5 minutes.
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Web scraping with Node
Node.js only has a couple good use cases. One of them is web scraping. Since you already know jQuery, Underscore and the DOM, it's more natural to scrape with JavaScript than the equivalent Ruby or Python libraries. Learn how tools like jsdom make it simple to scrape sites, even if you need to grab evaluated source.
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Practical TastyPie For the Modern Djangonaut
Wanna build an API? Sure, we all do. Practical TastyPie will focus on best practices and lessons learned from deploying APIs serving millions of records and hundreds of millions of requests at the Washington Post.
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Document Armaggeddon! Comparing billions of documents to find copycats, cheaters and thieves
Ok, so maybe "billions" is a stretch in practice -- but not in theory! This talk will demonstrate how to use a few lines of Python and Amazon's Elastic MapReduce framework to scan through an arbitrarily large set of documents and find those that are similar. We used it to find recycled bills from previous sessions of the California State Legislature, but the applications are endless.
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How I learned to stop worrying and love flat files.
You could spend time and treasure building the perfect caching system for your news app (and then stay up all night worrying about it). Or you could flatten your database app into static files and serve it cheap and easy. Learn the Data Desk way to break news without breaking a server.
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