About our contributors ...

This section lists the professional backgrounds and expertise of journalism contributors, many of whom specialize in computer-assisted reporting (CAR) and data analysis across various major news organizations.

Adam Bell specializes in computer-assisted reporting at The Charlotte Observer.

Chase Davis is a senior at the Missouri School of Journalism. Through December, he is working as a reporting intern at The Boston Globe. His Web site focusing on computer-assisted reporting is at www.car-chase.net.

John Keefe is news director for WNYC-New York Public Radio. He is an alumnus of the 2005 Editor mini-boot camp.

John Kelly is space editor at Florida Today and is one of the newspaper's computer-assisted reporting specialists.

John Maines is assistant research manager/computer-assisted reporting specialist at the South Florida Sun-Sentinel in Fort Lauderdale. He is a 2000 alumnus of the Advanced Statistics mini-boot camp.

David Olinger has been a reporter at The Denver Post since 1997. He has written many stories with the assistance of public databases or in-house statistical analyses: on unregulated gun trades after the Columbine High massacre, predatory foreclosure investors, child abuse deaths, neighborhood pollution and Census trends.

Jeff Roberts is The Denver Post's computer-assisted reporting editor. He has worked at The Post, as a reporter or editor, since 1984. He attended the IRE and NICAR Computer-Assisted Reporting Boot Camp in 1997 and has been a presenter and instructor at the annual IRE and CAR conferences.

Matthew Waite is a reporter for the St. Petersburg Times who specializes in computer-assisted reporting and the use of geographic information systems (GIS). Waite is a 1999 boot camp alumnus.