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  "year": 2005,
  "month": "January • February",
  "monthNum": 1,
  "headline": "Training, networking at CAR gathering",
  "kicker": "ANNUAL CAR CONFERENCE",
  "author_name": "",
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  "affiliation": "",
  "summary": "The 2005 Annual CAR Conference in Hollywood offers extensive training in database analysis, mapping, and investigative techniques for journalists of all skill levels.",
  "keywords": [
    "CAR conference",
    "journalism training",
    "data analysis"
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  "topics": [
    "Journalism & Newsroom",
    "Data & Databases",
    "Investigative Methods"
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  "technologies": [
    "spreadsheet",
    "Internet"
  ],
  "full_text": "The 2005 Annual Computer-Assisted Reporting Conference will feature an Advanced Day for CAR veterans, special tracks for broadcasters and beginners. The Advanced Day will be Thursday, March 17, and will be followed by three main days of panels and hands-on training for all levels of experience and expertise. All sessions will be at the Renaissance Hollywood Hotel in Hollywood, Calif. Practitioners in CAR will conduct more than 40 panels on nearly every beat and 60 hands-on classes on spreadsheets, database analysis, statistics, mapping and searching for and downloading data from the Internet. KNBC-Los Angeles and the Los Angeles Times are conference hosts. The Orange County Register is a sponsor. The conference Demo Room will offer informal tutorials and small workshops on specific federal and state data and analytic techniques. Among the topics will be using data analysis to report on homeland security, pollution, homicides, natural disasters, elections and campaign finance, inequities in education, exploitation of the poor, the military and the war in Iraq, and immigration border issues. Advanced topics will include social network analysis, data cleaning, open-source tools, constructing intranets for newsrooms and mining text databases. For beginning CAR reporters, the conference will include a start-to-finish track and a mini-boot camp of hands-on training. Experienced practitioners can learn to hurdle data challenges with advanced programming, sophisticated mapping techniques, scraping data from the Internet and employing more complex statistical methods.",
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