The Scoop

Mark Schaver points to the Institute for Analytic Journalism, which has among its co-directors CAR guru Steve Doig, but adds: “I’ll be anxious to see how the institute translates the methods of those other disciplines into methods that will be useful in a world where money and time for long-term projects are scarce, and most [...]

At last week’s NICAR conference I showed off Instiki at a demo session, and there was a request for a handout of instructions on how to get it up and running under Windows. To install Instiki on Windows, you’ll need three things. In order, they are:
* the Ruby language
* the Instiki program (zip file)
* access [...]

Here’s the handout for my UltraEdit text editing class from Saturday afternoon at the NICAR conference. There’s also an HTML version.

Last year I wrote a piece for Uplink on using Xpdf to convert PDF documents into text tables, but that piece focused on using xpdf on Win32 systems. Here’s an adapted guide to installing and using Xpdf on the Mac.
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Some references from the Advanced day of the NICAR conference: my list of open-source applications and my Python script for grabbing a list of FEC electronic filings (shown by Ron Nixon).