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 "mines" ...
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Mining the Private Parts of Public Officials
Ptacek provides tons of websites to utilize when digging into the private lives of public officials.
Tags: backgrounding; public officials
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Information Mining and Social Media Links for Finding People
Williams provides over 50 websites for information mining -- a great place to start for story ideas.
Tags: mining; social media; people search
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Mining Around the Data Globe
Learn to find international data easily and quickly with the help of this tipsheet.
Tags: International Data
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Mining Data Around The Globe
Tags: None
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Mining for Gold in County and State Government
Shipp provides useful tips for mining through your county and state government agencies, including how to deal with employees who aren't familiar dealing with reporters and what to know before you even talk to them.
Tags: mining; local; county; state; government agency
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Census Data with Tableau Public
Use the census to mine the information you need, made simpler and easier by Tableau Public.
Tags: census; tableau public
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Schools Data with Tableau Public
Let Tableau help you create and publish new data visualizations from the schools your are investigating.
Tags: test scores; Tableau Public; data mining
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Real Estate Data with Tableau Public
In this demo we'll create a workbook describing the real estate trends of a city or neighborhood. While we use a neighborhood in Washington, D.C. (Shaw), the techniques and dashboard could be applied anywhere with real estate data.
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Finding and using health care data
"This tip sheet will direct you to several trustworthy databases about the quality of health care delivered by hospitals, transplant centers and nursing homes."
Tags: data-mining; health care data