Coding agents for data analysis Coding agents for data analysis Here's the handout I prepared for my NICAR 2026 workshop "Coding agents for data analysis" - a three hour session aimed a...
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Coding agents for data analysis Coding agents for data analysis Here's the handout I prepared for my NICAR 2026 workshop "Coding agents for data analysis" - a three hour session aimed a...
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Coding agents for data analysis Coding agents for data analysis Here's the handout I prepared for my NICAR 2026 workshop "Coding agents for data analysis" - a three hour session aimed a...
#data-journalism #geospatial #python #speaking #sqlite #ai #datasette #generative-ai #llms […]
After all the AI at #NICAR, one useful thing I found this morning is I tossed my sloppy session notes at it and said "make these consistently formatted, link links, search the NICAR schedule for the correct name of the session, and add speaker affiliations." Did pretty well.
Dug up my notes and handout files from NICAR 2007, including how to scrape a website with Perl. 😅
#NICAR
Thanks to all the @ire.org staff for another great #NICAR #NICAR26! Can’t wait to see folks next year in Denver!!
On that note, I will miss you all, my fellow #NICAR nerds. Except you Boston #NICAR nerds. We have coffee dates ahead of us.
I’m so tired, but #NICAR is my absolute favorite journalism conference. At no other journalism conference would everyone cheer for a spreadsheet about backyard chickens — or a spreadsheet of any kind. These are my people.
Hey, anyone in #NICAR leadership following any of the hashtags? #NICAR26, #NICAR2026, #INDYNICAR? @ire.org? I have a question:
The slide said attendees from 48 states, territories, and DC. I assume that means DC (obviously) and Puerto Rico are represented. So which four states didn’t send anyone?
Remember that time I did a #NICAR lightning talk about how medieval heraldry can teach us about how to make better data stories? Well, I made the lightning talk into a pre- #NICAR26 project! Go check it out! emiliaruzicka.com/LessonsInHer...
SOME PERSONAL NEWS: I’m on the journalism job market again! (More below)
From business, ed, legal, breaking & investigative reporting, to data & research skills rooted in Python, R & AI — I can deliver for your newsroom. Email me at danbauman77@gmail.com & I’ll see u @ #NICAR (1/10)
Working on some Jupyter notebooks for #NICAR. One of my favorite ways to write and think about code.
Thank you #NICAR for the skills that made this 330+ row Flourish monstrosity possible. @ire.org
Paging my #NICAR pals:
Image of a slide that says Getting started: Download R, instructions at: http://www.r-project.org/ Start the program: Below that, there's a screenshot of an R Console window displaying: R version 2.10.1 (2009-12-14) Copyright (C) 2009 The R Foundation for Statistical Computing ISBN 3-900051-07-0 R is free software and comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. You are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions. Type 'license()' or 'licence()' for distribution details. Natural language support but running in an English locale R is a collaborative project with many contributors. Type 'contributors()' for more information and 'citation()' on how to cite R or R packages in publications. Type 'demo()' for some demos, 'help()' for on-line help, or 'help.start()' for an HTML browser interface to help. Type 'q()' to quit R. Loading required package: rcom Loading required package: rscproxy >
Slide showing: Bold header: What is the mean age and salary for CEOs in each sector? R commands and output: > tapply(CEOs$Age, CEOs$Sector, mean) Financial services Manufacturing Retail 51.06667 54.30000 49.54167 > tapply(CEOs$Salary, CEOs$Sector, mean) Financial services Manufacturing Retail 5.192667 4.236000 3.160417 Another bold header: An alternative, computing mean and standard deviation in one go: R command and its output: > numSummary(CEOs$Salary, groups=CEOs$Sector, statistics=c("mean", "sd")) mean sd n Financial services 5.192667 2.361245 15 Manufacturing 4.236000 2.157409 20 Retail 3.160417 1.821692 24
Going through old R folders on my PC, I found a couple of "Intro to R" presentations from the 2011 NICAR data journalism conference. Before RStudio was generally available. Before dplyr. Pretty different from how most journalists use #RStats today! 😅
From @peteraldhous.com at @ire.org #NICAR
Does anyone have any resources from this talk on Avant Garde Data visualization that was given by @anjchang.bsky.social
@jadiehm.bsky.social
@kleinmatic.bsky.social
It was in the moments that COVID broke out in the US (at the venue).
To share with my creative coding students
#nicar #datavis
It's really easy to run your own loggers! @jonkeegan.com gave out RTL-SDRs at a #NICAR many years ago, and I ran a Pi with one of those for a while before upgrading it to a dual-SDR 978/1090 rig.
See also acarsdrama.com
I wish I could blame #NICAR for this but my brain was always this way in terms of drawing connections and I really need to figure out how to utilize this skills and kind of research more in my reporting
After attending the same #NICAR seminar on how to import a table from a website into Google Sheets two years in a row, I just did it in two minutes and was able to embed the Datawrapper table in a story.
Niemen Journalism Lab has a small writeup, with links, to the recent data journalism conference #nicar #nicar25
www.niemanlab.org/2025/03/you-...
Links to tip sheets and tutorials from the recent #datajournalism #ddj conference #nicar
www.machlis.com/nicar/
You can learn a conference’s worth of data journalism through these NICAR tipsheets
NICAR is a must for news nerds. Check out the tips & tools from NICAR 2025 to stay ahead in journalism! #NICAR #journalism #data #AI #maps #OSINT
#NICAR is also possibly the most neurodivergent-friendly journalism conference. There are slides immediately available at the start of presentations, repositories on GitHub, tip-sheets, a recharge room, mentoring programs, and people are encouraged to teach others their special interests. 😅
It's pretty expensive to attend a journalism conference like #NICAR out of pocket, but I keep going back because of how many people in its community genuinely convey the ethos of:
You can learn this skill too.
You can also do this work.
You're not alone in figuring this out.
People want to help you
Great resource for searching tipsheets etc from #NICAR meetings from @smachlis.bsky.social
www.machlis.com/nicar/
I left the stage right at the five minute mark, but here's the final slide of my #nicar lightning talk on diversifying sources with my tip-sheet and a photo of Max
Best #NICAR yet! (It was only my second, but the sentiment still stands). Many thanks to the @ire-nicar.bsky.social staff and local journos for such a wonderful conference. It's reinvigorating to know so many other fabulous nerds across the nation are crunching numbers and speaking truth to power.
Absolutely loved my first #NICAR with @ire-nicar.bsky.social
