The IRE Resource Center is a major research library containing more than 23,250 investigative stories — both print and broadcast. Add to that more than 3,000 tipsheets from our national conferences on how to cover specific beats or do specific stories and you have a resource that no reporter or editor should be without. These stories and tipsheets are searchable online or by contacting the Resource Center directly (573-882-3364 or rescntr@ire.org) where a researcher can help you pinpoint what you need. Browse or search the tipsheet section of our library below. Logged-in members can view the tipsheets free online:
Search results for "data analysis" ...
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Connecting the dots with NodeXL
NodeXL is an add-in for Excel 2007 and 2010 that allows you to do network analysis (aka social network analysis) in a familiar spreadsheet environment. You'll learn how to use the software by turning data from 2007 on voting patterns in the US Senate into an informative graphic revealing the chamber's underlying dynamics - and highlighting the few senators who broke the partisan mold.
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Inside baseball: What data journalism can learn from sports
This panel will identify areas for data journalism exploration by examining the current state-of-the-art baseball data analysis. Sports are the original form of data journalism -- box scores predate open government movements by about a century. And Joseph Adler's "Baseball Hacks" trained newbie Web CAR reporters how to scrape and analyze data sets using Perl and MySQL. Finally, sports analytics are a leading indicator for other kinds of analysis. Sensors, economic analysis, leverage are all de rigeur in baseball but still up-and-coming in data journalism. We'll take the concepts being used to analyze baseball, football, soccer and apply them to standard data journalism chores.
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Newscamp: Data science for nerdy journalists
This edition of the "Journal of Statistical Software" looks at the elements that go into using datasets, including data cleaning and maniupulating adata.
Tags: Data journalism; data analysis; programming
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Getting started: digging deep with data journalism
Tips on how to get you started on data journalism, story tips and direction on where to run with them.
Tags: Data journalism; data analysis
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Tableau Public for beginners and pros
Use the tipsheet to map your way to mastering data analysis.
Tags: Free software; mapping data
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What is big data, and where did it come from
When dealing with big data sets, use Lucas' tipsheet to help you tame it. She includes tips on how to prepare for big data sets and how to manage your analysis.
Tags: data sets; large data
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Free Data Tools for Data Visualization and Analysis
Explore the world of free tools that can aid with visualizing and analyzing various components of data.
Tags: Data Tools
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Human-assisted reporting: How to create robot reporters in your own image
Welch goes over how to, via programming, extract information from a continuous data stream, and the potential stories that may come out of it.
Tags: programming; computer-assisted reporting; CAR; data analysis
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Environmental analyses for any newsroom
Lucas and Golden walks through the steps to analyze and extract information from environmental data.
Tags: environment; environmental analysis; environmental data; pollution; data; epa