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• Making timelines

  Displaying a series of events can be as simple as drawing a straight line. But if you want to get fancier, there are a bunch of other options to display chronologies and storylines. In this talk, we'll take a tour of current timelines in the wild and walk you through three open-source tools to help you make your own: ProPublica's TimelineSetter, Zach Wise's TimelineJS, and WNYC's Vertical Timeline. http://lenagroeger.s3.amazonaws.com/timelines/timelines.html

  Tags: data

  By Lena Groeger

  2013

• Covering Elections

  Pictures from Shaw's presentation on reporting from elections. http://shaw.al.s3.amazonaws.com/nicar-elections/index.html

  Tags: election; 2008; coverage; covering; scoreboard; live results

  By Al Shaw

  2012

• Data Tables: Step-by-step Basic Instructions

  Schnaars gives instructions on how to use the jQuery plug-in "Data Tables" to quickly display searchable and sortable data through content management system.

  Tags: jquery; data tables; ssi; json; htm; html; data; sorting;

  By Christopher Schnaars

  2012

• How I learned to stop worrying and love flat files

  Welsh goes over how data can be saved online as flat HTML files

  Tags: data; backup; online; html; flat file

  By Ben Welsh

  2012

• Locating the story: The latest in online maps

  Welsh lecturing on the potential of using online maps in reporting.

  Tags: online; maps; internet; google earth; copycat; osm; open street map; html5

  By Ben Welsh

  2012

• Importing HTML tables using Microsoft Excel

  "Getting HTML tables into Microsoft Excel used to be labor intensive and problematic." Get tips from Nixon on how to import easily.

  Tags: Excel; HTML; importing data

  By Ron Nixon

  2011

• Importing data using the Microsoft Excel Import Wizard

  Importing data into Microsoft Excel will enhance your reporting by allowing you to do original, in-depth analysis on a variety of different types of information. It's fortunate that Excel can accommodate multiple data formats so you can do basic or complex sorts, filters, pivot tables and more. In this lesson you’ll learn about different data formats, how to identify a format, which ones are Excel-friendly and how to get them into Excel.

  Tags: data; excel; import; text file; comma-separated value; database format; html; access file; pdf

  By Garance Burke

  2011

• Lightning Talks: Making HTML Tables Interactive

  Minkoff suggests making HTML tables interactive so that users can access the data that is pertinent to them. Doing so requires a lot of front & back end work, and she discusses all that is entailed.

  Tags: data; html; interactive tables; access; searchable database

  By Michelle Minkoff

  2011

• Using Monarch Pro: A helpful method for pulling data from text documents, PDFs,a nd HTML files into tables

  Monarch is a 'data mining' software that can turn text documents, PDFs, formatted ASCII files and other reports into usable data tables. Lavigne discusses how to acquire Monarch, and how to use it. She includes lots of screenshots as examples.

  Tags: monarch; data mining; data analysis

  By Paula Lavigne

  2007

• Importing HTML tables using Microsoft Excel

  This tipsheet is a step by step guide to importing HTML tables into Microsoft Excel. The author includes screen shots to illustrate each step of the process.

  Tags: internet; data formatting; HTML; spreadsheets; data analysis; importing

  By Ron Nixon (updated by Carolyn Edds)

  2006