SABEW25

Power up your ability to efficiently discover story leads and verify claims with basic Python commands and an understanding of how to explore the data offered in APIs. This session will demonstrate how to use programming code to search SEC filings, nonprofit disclosures and consumer complaint databases — practical techniques you can use to gather data at scale. No setup required, as we'll be walking through our sample analysis in a code notebook on our screen. Links will be provided so you can take this code home and adapt it to your own stories! This panel is in partnership with Investigative Reporters & Editors.

If you’re covering local business, data is vital to unearthing stories about your communities. In this session, we’ll learn to identify and navigate a few key data sources and analyze the numbers and statistics to reveal telling economic trends pertinent to your region — and help you walk away with some compelling story ideas. Attendees should bring their fully charged laptops to this hands-on session. This panel is in partnership with American City Business Journals.

We've all been there: trying to compare different companies' stock performance, or pulling together economic indicators such as mortage rates, GDP variants or unenmployment for the region you cover. If you've been compiling it manually every time, this session will demonstrate how to use some easy-to-understand R code and a package called tidyquant to make things much easier. What's more, you can re-use it every day, month, or quarter, so that you never have to start from scratch again when you need the latest numbers for a story. No setup or prior experience with R is required - the session will walk through a demonstration and then give you the code to take home to play with afterwards.

Once a year, publicly traded companies produce a document with a wealth of information: the proxy statement. Inside, you’ll find extensive information about how much the company pays its CEO and top executives.

This discussion will highlight the key sections of the proxy and show how to report on exactly how much an executive made. It will begin with an introduction to various forms of stock awarded to executives as compensation.