Web Resources from NICAR 2010 Talks

Mashups and web mapping on the fly
Babalola, Niran (nbabalola at texastribune.com)
files from talkhttp://celes.niran.org/~niran/car2010-mapping/car2010-mapping.zip

Geodjango/OpenLayers
Welsh, Ben and Willis, Derek (ben.welsh at gmail.com)
GitHub page with complete python/django/openlayers code for California unemployment maphttp://bit.ly/geodjangodunktank

5 Essential SQL queries (Lightning talk)
Debarros, Anthony (adebarro at usatoday.com)
The SQL Server and MySQL scripts from NICAR lightning talk are herehttp://tinyurl.com/ylr8f65

Google mapping with flex, geodjango
Fenton, Jacob (fenton at american.edu)
Includes compilation directions, code examples, documentation, and geodjango backend code, including layermapping and polyline encoding scripts, and example of shape simplification with postgishttp://nicar-phoenix.s3.amazonaws.com/flex.html

Google maps (javascript API)
Corey, Michael (mcorey at desmoine.gannett.com)
Google maps hands-on training, parts I and IIhttp://www.mikejcorey.com/wordpress/category/tutorials/

Web development best practices
Boyer, Brian (brian at hackerjournalist.net)
Blog post with many linked tools and referencesBlog Post

Hello, Newsroom! Build out a GIS-enabled web app in < five minutes
Mark, Ryan 
The full set of directions on how to fire up an EC2 instance with all the geospatial goodies and a fully running geodjango app, from the Chicago Tribune's News Applications Teamhttp://blog.apps.chicagotribune.com/2010/02/17/hello-newsroom-a-simple-geodjango-application/

Web Scraping
Perry, John (John.Perry at ajc.com)
Scripts from hands-on webscraping class; includes Perl as well as an example ruby script using mechanize and hpricot.http://github.com/perryjg/webscraping_tutorial

Web Scraping
Fenton, Jacob (fenton at american.edu)
Perl scraping with Mechanize, TokeParser, and cURL; includes code samples, etc.http://nicar-phoenix.s3.amazonaws.com/scraping.html

Like Snowboard Cross, but With Data ( TableSetter, from ProPublica )
Klein, Scott (scott.klein at propublica.org)
Complete code via github (Also see Deploying ProPublica's awesome table-setter tables to S3 using Fabric from the Trib's News Apps Blog) http://propublica.github.com/table-setter/

Lightning Talks: Open Flash Charts
Henderson, Tim (tim.hendo at gmail.com)
For those who asked for more details about Open Flash Charts after the the Lightning Talks, here's a page with a form that lets you make a simple chart, with links to how to implement it yourself and make more complex charts...http://data.lohud.com/tim/nicar_chart.php

Hands-on Open Source Mapping
Henderson, Tim (tim.hendo at gmail.com)
Thematic online mapping with free tools: QGIS, jquery, wztooltipshttp://data.lohud.com/tim/nicar/nicar_gis_main.php