Yearly Archives: 2016

Live Streaming: D&N Workshops Day 4

31 Tuesday May 2016

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Good Tuesday morning.

We spent a beautiful day with Initium Media CTO Hu Pili yesterday. Today, Prof. Jeff South from Virginia Commonwealth University starts his first day with us.

You can tune in to the live stream of our webcast via the following links and enjoy the workshops with us:

May 31 Morning Session:
http://chtl01.hkbu.edu.hk/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=dc7e69aa-0c53-470a-ac06-93834bf4d2c1

May 31 Afternoon Session:

http://chtl01.hkbu.edu.hk/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=ca75c276-8738-4001-8143-998c8ad87b6a

Cheers.

Live Streaming: D&N Workshops Day 3

30 Monday May 2016

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Good Monday Morning!

We are now into Day 3 of the Workshops and today we have Mr. Hu Pili from Initium Media of Hong Kong with us.

You can tune in to the live stream of our webcast via the following links and enjoy the workshops with us:

30 May Morning Session:

http://chtl01.hkbu.edu.hk/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=3b2829b7-1039-4849-894f-b99f4854349a

30 May Afternoon Session:

http://chtl01.hkbu.edu.hk/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=9ac3d676-3d23-49a8-a796-b82c7907fb4e

Cheers!

Live Streaming: D&N Workshops Day 2

28 Saturday May 2016

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We had a fabulous time yesterday! And today we will continue with Ms. Silva Shih from FTChinese.com with more data journalism topics and hands-on practice.

You can tune in to the live stream of our webcast via the following links and enjoy the workshops with us today:

May 28th, Morning session

http://chtl01.hkbu.edu.hk/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=f43d05ae-05e6-42da-9f6d-5c5e7e9306cb

May 28th, Afternoon session
http://chtl01.hkbu.edu.hk/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=261e78ec-2c0d-4793-8004-be7390ed5cd4

Cheers!

Story-telling with data: Phil Meyer says

26 Thursday May 2016

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Greetings to Roselyn and the Data & News Society. I’m sorry that I cannot be with you in person, but I welcome this opportunity to send my image instead.

There is a new book related to my topic. Robert H. Frank of Cornell University is the author of Success and Luck. He argues that we tend to underestimate the degree to which simple good luck accounts for whatever success we have. Psychologists call this “hindsight bias.” The success of my Precision Journalism, still in print after 43 years, offers a case study. Continue reading →

The Data & News Society Workshops 2016

06 Friday May 2016

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As the annual highlight of our Data & News Society, this workshop series will bring you a close look at the current state of data journalism, as well as how it works and future directions.

We are honored to present to you three marvelous speakers in this workshop week, May 27 – June 2 (10:00-17:30 each day with a one-day break on Sunday, May 29).

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*Please RSVP with your full name same as ID/Passport. A certificate will be issued to you upon completion of the workshop series.

Top Data News of the Week: Who Will Win the April 26 Primaries?

26 Tuesday Apr 2016

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The big data is becoming more and more usual with daily news, and yet a presidential campaign is where it really comes handy. On the other side of the world, an intensive race is going on to decide who will be the next POTUS. Of course, first thing first, Democrat and Republican have to have a single candidate of their own. Five eastern states, including the key swing state of Pennsylvania will hold primaries in just few hours. So who they will pick? The Bloomberg assembled some index try to work out the winner of next key moment (find the origianl here http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2016-04-25/who-will-win-the-april-26-primaries-six-views-point-to-trump-and-clinton). Continue reading →

Data News in the Pulitzers

20 Wednesday Apr 2016

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by Roselyn Du

(This is a repost from Comunicar – Media Education Research Journal. Find the original here https://comunicarjournal.wordpress.com/2016/04/20/data-news-in-the-pulitzers/)

The Pulitzers are now in their centennial year. A hundred years is a long way to go. Along the way, there are milestones that are remembered. One in 2012, marked by Huffington Post. Its military correspondent David Wood won in the National Reporting category with his 10-part series “Beyond the Battlefields”. That milestone celebrates the first win for the then seven-year-old Huffington Post and evidences the Pulitzer committee’s recognition of online-only news. As the president and editor-in-chief of the “paper” Arianna Huffington commented, it was an affirmation that great journalism could thrive on the Web.

Another in 2016. Yes, freshly out yesterday. The New Yorker became the first magazine to win a Pulitzer, with Emily Nussbaum’s critical reviews. In 2015, for the first time ever, magazines were permitted to enter the awards and the New Yorker was finalisted for feature writing.

I am actually waiting for another milestone. One for data journalism. In the journalism classes I teach, I’ve always asked my students, “when do you think there will be an award category in the Pulitzer for data news?”

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一張圖讀懂喬布斯數據化妝術

13 Wednesday Apr 2016

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(This is a repost from Initiumlab.com. Find the original here http://initiumlab.com/blog/20160316-eight-myths-about-data-journalism/)

2015-10-12

Andy Shu 

喬布斯是個頂級的企業家，也是頂級的營銷家，玩起數據可視化來，也是便宜佔盡，毫不手軟。
我們選用喬布斯在2006年 Macworld 上的一張棒圖，拆解他的數據化妝術。

2006年 Macworld 上，喬布斯向觀衆展示蘋果 Mac 產品在2005年四個季度的銷量：
喬布斯展示蘋果產品銷量逐年遞增

增長勢頭很厲害啊，不過，好像有什麼不對？

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[Colloquium] How to Lie with Statistics in Data News

11 Monday Apr 2016

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It’s time for our monthly colloquium again! This Wednesday, Apr. 13th, we will have our very own Dr. Tong Tiejun, Associate Professor from Department of Mathematics talking about stats error in data news.

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Come join the event at CVA1024, Apr. 13th (Wed) 13:00,sign up starts at 12:50. All are welcome!

Statistics do not lie, but people may lie with statistics in data news. Dating back to 1954, Darrell Huff has written a book titled “How to Lie with Statistics” that presents an introduction to statistics for the general reader. Over the last sixty years, the book has sold many more copies than any other statistical text. As Huff made clear in his book, lying with statistics can be accomplished in many ways. Distorting graphics, manipulating data or using biased samples are just a few of the tried and true methods. Failing to use the correct statistical procedure or failing to check the conditions for when the selected method is appropriate can distort results as well, whether the motives of the analyst are honorable or not. Even when the statistical procedure and motives are correct, bad data can produce results that have no validity at all. Continue reading →