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Mapping It Out: New D.C. crime map built on recycled points
Reporter Dan Keating, took robbery data from the weekly crime dump the Washington Post gets from the Washington D.C. city police, and geocoded the data using ESRI ArcView 9.1 GIS. Working as a team with other repoters, researchers, graphic researchers and cartographers,they created a full-page robbery map that allowed readers to localize robberies in their areas. Keating did most of the geocoding in a SAS database manager, allowing him to save his results in a written format to be easily updated.
Tags: Microsoft SQL Server; Perl application; geocoding; ESRI ArcView 9.1; GIS; police reports; robbery; geocoding; latitude-longitude point; real estate assesment file; SAS; polygon map; Paintshop Pro; Uniform Crime Report; UCR;
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Bits and Bytes: Truck data updated
In early 2007, NICAR updated three databases useful for investigations dealing with trucks: the Truck Accidents Database, the Truck Inspections Database, and the Truck Inspections Database.
Tags: Truck Accidents Database; commercial carrier accidents; Truck Inspections Database; c; semis
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Simple calculations show S.C.'s war burden
Crumbo explains how he used Excel's math functions to rank South Carolina and other states according to number of Iraq casualties from each state. He describes the specific math functions that he used and then shares his results.
Tags: calculations; Microsoft Excel; CAR; military reporting; war coverage
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CAR gives contest winners boost
Uplink highlights the winners and finalists of IRE's annual contest that used CAR in the categories of newspaper, FOI, and Tom Renner Awards. Listed are synopses of winning newspaper stories by: Sarah Rubenstein and Walter Woods of the Atlanta Business Chronicle; Eric Eyre and Scott Finn of the Charleston (W.Va.) Gazette; Mike Lee of the Tri-City Herald; Russell Clemings, Barbara Anderson and Mark Grossi of the Fresno Bee; John Archibald, Jeff Hansen, Caria Crowder, Thomas Spencer and Marie Jones of the Birmingham News; Tom Beyerlein and Steve Bennish of the Dayton Daily News; Liz Szabo of the Virginian-Pilot; Walter V. Robinson, Matt Carroll, Sacha Pfeiffer, Michael Rezendes and Stephen Kurkjian of the Boston Globe; Alan C. Miller and Kevin Sack of the Los Angeles Times; Scott M. Reid, Marla Jo Fisher and Natalya Shulyakovskaya of the Orange County Register; Ellen E. Schultz and Theo Francis of the Wall Street Journal. FOI AWARDS went to Seth Rosenthal of the San Francisco Chronicle, award; Kathleen Kerr of Newsday, finalist. TOM RENNER finalist went to Patrick Wright of the Daytona Beach News-Journal.
Tags: award winners; finalist; conference; annual conference; CAR
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Students reveal gifts to legislators
Students in South's Legislative Reporting class got the Virginia records on gifts received by state legislators. Using this data the determined what companies and interest groups gave the most gifts and which state politicians received the most gifts. The data was held in paper form and was entered into Excel by the students. Students used September 1999 Uplink story as a guide for hteir project. The story was later put online at www.people.vcu.edu/~jcsouth/on-the-lege/
Tags: FEC; Campaign finance; gifts
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Officer downings
Craven writes about The Washington Post story "Deadly Force," in which she and other reporters examined police records to find that in the 1990s D.C. police shot and killed more people per resident than any metro police department in the country.
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Kiddie donors
"They are the most precocious of political donors: youngers who are not old enough to drive a car, never mind cast a vote, yet they dispense $1,000 checks to candidates for public office." This article takes a look at how the LA Times investigated this legal loophole.
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Dusting pesticide records
Fabey writes about how the Fayetteville (N.C.) Observer-Times used CAR and found a story about how "government regulators don't do their job when it comes to watching those who spray pesticides."
Tags: CAR; Pesticides
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News and Observer challenges N.C. for access to public information
Denton outlines some of North Carolina government agency's tactics in keeping public information out of the hands of reporters by flatly refusing to give it to them or charging outrageously high prices for the information.
Tags: CAR; Government Computer Tapes
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Using Data at the Nation's Data Capital
This article discusses the state of computer-assisted reporting in Washington, D.C.
Tags: CAR