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# Things I saw at NICAR
### All of these links (and more) at [Chrys Wu's site](http://blog.chryswu.com/2015/02/20/nicar-2015-slides-links-tutorials/)
# Space Journalism * Propublica discussed [tools for getting satelite images](https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/18281116/nicar-space.pdf) * [Landsat-utils](https://github.com/developmentseed/landsat-util) and [schooner](https://github.com/propublica/schooner-tk)
# Tiny News Desks * [Mother Jones/INN/CIR](http://jaeahlee.github.io/nicar15/#/) * Be your own project manager * Lots of checkins * Break down big projects and iterate
# Sensor journalism * [Tacking noise in Lincoln](http://slides.com/travishartman/deck/fullscreen#/) * Bored and Brilliant * Can't rely on accuracy, but sign something is going on
# Machine Learning * Dedupe and campaign finance * Categorizing text (sentiment analysis)
# Working with text * [Makdowneyjr](https://github.com/veltman/markdowneyjr) * [ArchieML](http://archieml.org/)
# Working with code/data * [16 solutions](https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/18KE-VO9T6V1I_aGyekdDtFhYP4K0Saph7aBuBS3N8tc/edit#slide=id.p) and [Do it once](http://recoveredfactory.net/cleaner-data-nicar15/#/front) * [Data smells](https://etherpad.mozilla.org/nicar-datasmells) * [Humanizing data viz](http://www.katie-park.com/nicar-2015.pdf)