Cutting-edge panels and practical hands-on software training will highlight IRE’s 2010 Computer Assisted Reporting conference March 11-14 in Phoenix, Ariz. Panels and hands-on training will have something for everyone – whether you’re a CAR beginner or a data wizard.

See the preliminary schedule online. Or see a list of expected panels below:

• Covering the sluggish economic recovery
• Handling the 2010 Census
• Gearing up for the midterm elections
• Examining your state's fiscal health
• Education and the stimulus
• Visualizing data in new ways
• Basic CAR stories for every newsroom
• Twitter for journalists
• Free open-source mapping
• Analyzing state and local government spending
• Internet tips and tricks
• CAR for broadcast
• Free software for journalists
• Text mining
• Quick-hit CAR stories
• Predictive analysis and cutting-edge statistics
• Essential data for every newsroom
• Advanced Google Maps and the latest in mapping
• Winning data negotiations
• Not a programmer? Not a worry
• Medical investigations
• Dissecting a Web site
• Writing and editing the CAR story
• Web scraping
• Bulletproofing your analysis and story
• Programming basics
• Social media strategies
• Teaching CAR in the newsroom or classroom
• Data clouds
• Environmental investigations
• Mashups and Web mapping on the fly
• Social Network Analysis
• Web development
• Sports investigations