May 1st, 2011 | by Derek Willis | published in Data, IRE, Journalism
To my mother’s regret, I was never the literature lover she is. And I am not remotely the writer I might have been expected to be, given that my parents both taught English, one at the high school level and the other at college. I also am not the most graceful of interviewers, as my [...]
February 27th, 2011 | by Derek Willis | published in IRE
We had a great turnout for this year’s lightning talks, and there were plenty of calls for collecting the presentations and links. IRE will be posting these soon, but here they are: Similarity Algorithms, Luke Rosiak Spatial Analysis on the Cheap, Andrew Long The Basics of MGRS Coordinates, Jacob Harris NodeXL for Social Network Analysis, [...]
December 7th, 2010 | by Derek Willis | published in Car Tools, IRE, Journalism
Update: the student price for the conference, $100, does not include IRE membership. That’s $25. Both are bargains. Hey there, journalism student! A bunch of your colleagues are having a get-together in February, and you should come. Actually, you need to be there. I’m talking about Investigative Reporters and Editors’ annual Computer-Assisted Reporting Conference, held [...]
May 3rd, 2010 | by Derek Willis | published in IRE
It’s dangerous to blog late at night, so take what follows with a grain of salt. It’s more stream of (semi-)consciousness than anything else, but I’m curious what other folks think. Note: I wrote this before Aron’s thread about conferences on Hacks/Hackers, but some of it relates to that question, too. Give IRE a lot [...]
March 7th, 2010 | by Derek Willis | published in IRE
The 2010 CAR Conference begins on Thursday, and here are some of the sessions I’m trying not to miss: Thursday, March 11 Big Data: Analyzing legislation with machine learning. Always good to hear what Chase Davis has been up to. Open Source GIS. Now that mapping is more and more accessible, it pays to stay [...]