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• Cracking Codes

  Learn about datasets that can help localize health stories, including pharmaceutical company spending on doctors, nursing home violations and hospital quality, among others. We will dive into Medicare data and data that local and state reporters can use.

  Tags: health data; Medicaid; nursing homes; drugs

  By David Donald

  2013

• Making Health Data Sexy

  Learn about datasets that can help localize health stories, including pharmaceutical company spending on doctors, nursing home violations and hospital quality, among others. We will dive into Medicare data and data that local and state reporters can use.

  Tags: Medicare data; nursing home; hospital; pharmaceuticals

  By Charles Ornstein

  2013

• 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

  By Hadley Wickham

  2013

• Taming monster datasets: The data specialist’s perspective

  Doig gives tips on how to get huge data sets onto your computer and what tools to use on them.

  Tags: SQL, SAS; .FTP; Ruby; large data sets

  By Steve Doig

  2012

• New Frontiers in Computer-Assisted Reporting

  Cohen's tipsheet is filled with links and explanations of tools that could be of help to computer-assisted reporting. Included are existing free tools that can be "hijacked" for reporting purposes; and projects to analyze audio, video, visual recording and handwriting.

  Tags: computer-assisted reporting; web tools; web-extraction; spreadsheets; datasets; DocumentCloud; Excel; visualization; Comment analysis; extraction engines;

  By Sarah Cohen

  2010

• The Bailout - Tracking the Money

  Donald and Dunbar give pointers on tracking the bailout money funds. Included are links to Web sites and datasets to help inform stories on the bailout. Links provided include information on: subprime lenders; bailout cash/TARP funds; banking data; and enforcement actions.

  Tags: bailout; economy; subprime lenders; banking; TARP; Troubled Asset Relief Program; housing; Home Mortgage Disclosure Act; HMDA; Federal Reserve;

  By David Donald

  2009

• Intranets that Work

  The author discusses how to create an intranet that is a useful tool for CAR reporters. His tips include suggestions about what sort of software to use and what sort of data to make available on the intranet.

  Tags: intranet; newsroom organization; CAR; staff; datasets

  By Rob Gebeloff

  2008

• Getting and Using Environmental Datasets

  This tipsheet lists different sources for environmental data. For instance, it suggests several different websites for finding EPA data, as well as other places to find expert advice.

  Tags: web sites; search engines; EPA; data; CAR; beat reporting

  By Russell Clemings

  2005

• Federal Databases

  This tipsheet lists ten little-known but very useful federal databases. Nixon explains what data is kept in each one, the format it is available in and how to find it. The list includes data from the EPA and the CDC.

  Tags: CPDF; Central Personnel Data File; Equal Opportunity Employment Commission; INS; single audit database; NFIRS

  By Ron Nixon

  2005

• Unsung Federal Databases

  Sarah Cohen takes a look at how every piece of information collected by the federal government falls under the Office of Management and Budget, who puts a list of approved information collections on its website. You can look through this list for a set of forms that will help you find what you're looking for.

  Tags: Federal databases; Office of Management and Budget; Approved Information Collections; General Services Administration; Unified Agenda of Regulatory and Deregulatory Actions; Government Accountability Office; Bid Protests and Decisions; Excluded Parties List System; U.S. Senate; Office of Public Records; Lobbying Disclosure Reports

  By Sarah Cohen

  2005