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:
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Developing reusable visualization components using D3 and Backbone
This session will step through a process for creating components for standards-based Web content, focusing in particular on the creation of common building blocks for data visualization in JavaScript. D3 is an increasingly popular choice for developing visual content and we will look at how items ranging from simple bar charts to custom graphics can be packaged up for easy reuse. Backbone is a widely used toolkit for creating browser-based applications and we will examine how its models and views can play a role in the creation of components. Consideration will be given to combination, customization and the power of reuse versus the perils of over-generalization. https://github.com/rflow/nicar-13-examples/blob/master/slides.key
Tags: data visualization; Java Script; D3; backbone
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People, Paper, & Passion: How To Get The Impossible
Great investigations require great people, documents, and passion. Learn how to incorporate all three into your investigations with this tipsheet.
Tags: People; Power; Passion; Documents; Freedom of Information
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Creative Uses of Campaign Data
Stiles and Yourish offer unique and interesting ways of tracking who's paying and who's getting paid this election season and how to use that data to do great reporting.
Tags: campaign finance; campaign data; PowerPoint
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Backgrounding Candidates
Grimaldi gives great tips on how to run a background investigation on this year's presidential candidates, as well as anyone else you're backgrounding.
Tags: backgrounding; 2012; presidential election; PowerPoint
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Census on a tight timeline
This PowerPoint lays out how Playford and his team put out a story using census data in a time crunch.
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Scraping the Web (PowerPoint)
O'Murchu provides sites, tips, and tools for the non-programmer in this PowerPoint presentation. If you need to scrape the web, turn here first.
Tags: scraping the web; data; programming; coding; open data
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Tracking guns:How to investigate gun dealers and track murder weapons
Grimaldi, 2010 IRE award winner, provides the PowerPoint he used at this year's conference. Get inside information on how he and his team tracked down guns and the gun dealers who sold them.
Tags: gun dealers; Washington Post; The Hidden Life of Guns;
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How to investigate gun dealers--PowerPoint
Use this PowerPoint with Poston's tipsheet (How to investigate gun dealers), to get the most information and knowledge about gun dealers.
Tags: guns; gun dealers; investigations
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Year In Investigations
This PowerPoint from Haddix and Horvit reviews the year in investigations, including IRE award winning reports from CNBC on gun manufacturer, Remington, and ICIJ with the BBC on the global asbestos trade.
Tags: investigations; 2011