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  "slug": "2000-april-bits-bytes-and-barks",
  "url": "https://dwillis.github.io/uplink/article/2000-april-bits-bytes-and-barks.html",
  "year": 2000,
  "month": "April",
  "monthNum": 4,
  "headline": "Bits, Bytes and Barks",
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  "affiliation": "IRE and NICAR",
  "summary": "IRE and NICAR are offering Census 2000 workshops in three locations with expert instructors, while also updating several federal databases including the Consolidated Federal Funds Report and announcing upcoming conferences in New York and Kentucky.",
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    "census",
    "workshops",
    "databases"
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  "topics": [
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    "Data & Databases",
    "Technology"
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  "full_text": "Census Workshops\n\nA third date for the IRE and NICAR Census 2000 seminars has been set for Dec. 8-10 in College Park, Md. Others will be held April 7-9 in Tempe, Ariz., and Aug 4-6 in Columbia, Mo.\n\nThese intensive two-day sessions will be a fast-track lesson on what you need to know to start producing stories when the data begins to emerge at the end of this year.\n\nInstructors will be Paul Overberg, a database editor at USA Today, and Steve Doig, the former Miami Herald research editor who now teaches computer-assisted reporting at Arizona State University.\n\nMore information, including registration forms and a schedule, is available at www.ire.org/training/censusworkshoptempe.html\n\nAlso check out Doig's new Web site on using data from the 2000 Census. The site is at http://cronkite.pp.asu.edu/census (note: make sure \"frames\" are enabled on your browser).\n\nThe project, supported by a grant from the Russell Sage Foundation, features a variety of pages that will be useful for journalists.\n\nNICAR data update\n\nNICAR has updated the Consolidated Federal Funds Report (CFFR) data through September 30, 1998, the National Endowment of the Arts grants database through fiscal year 1998 and the Recreational Boating Accidents database through the end of 1998. The CFFR data includes all federal money paid to states, counties and local agencies. That includes social security payments, grants and direct loans. A sample slice and record layout are available at www.nicar.org/data/cffr/ The recreational boats database contains data on accidents that resulted in death or injury requiring more than first aid. NICAR has data going back to 1969. More information and sample slices of the tables are available online at www.ire.org/datalibrary/databases/BoatAcc/ NEA database includes grants awarded since 1987 to arts organizations throughout the United States. More information and a sample data slice are available online at www.ire.org/datalibrary/databases/NEA/ Contact the data library to order these or any other datasets by calling (573) 884-7711.\n\nConferences\n\nA registration form for the IRE National Conference, June 1-4 in New York City, is available in this issue on page 15. The first day of the conference will be an optional CAR day with panels planned on topics such as: housing issues such as slumlords and land flips, environmental databases, responding to disasters, census, campaign finance, deadline data work, newsroom training and mapping. More information is available online at www.ire.org/training/ny00/\n\nSchedule information and registration forms for the National CAR Conference, Sept. 14-17 in Lexington, Ky., should be available soon on the IRE Web site. More information is available by calling (573) 882-0684.",
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