30 Monday Oct 2017
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Shan HE, Project director of Greenovation Hub, Public Lab Organizer, member of Guangzhou International Dragon Boat team. Living in Changzhou island in Guangzhou, is coming to Hong Kong Baptist University on 11 November to talk about Environment Issue, Open Technology and Data Visualisation.
When: 11:30 AM-12:10 PM, Nov. 11, 2017 (Saturday).
Where: Room 703, 7/F, Communication and Visual Arts Building, Hong Kong Baptist University.
29 Sunday Oct 2017
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The closing session of 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China finished this week. New Politburo Standing Committee presented to the Media, putting Beijing in the centre of world attention. This DNW hand-picks recent data news related to Power in China.
Bloomberg Politics made an unconventional data visualisation to show The Path to Power in China. Readers can easily tell running a Big Region is important in China, by reading the following line chart. The chart successfully turned categorical position data into ordinal data by sorting the importance, namely number of people who entered Standing Committee from that position.
18 Wednesday Oct 2017
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Noble Prize and Policy Address 2017.
Nobel Prize. Michael Greshko from National Geographic finds out that Nearly 900 People Have Won Nobel Prizes. Only 48 Were Women. The gender gap exists, regardless that female winners are increasing in recent years.
09 Monday Oct 2017
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Dear all,
We are honoured to introduce you a one and a half day Data Journalism Boot Camp in Hong Kong.
Location (Map): Room 506, 5/F, Communication and Visual Arts Building (CVA), Hong Kong Baptist University.
Time: Oct. 26 (Thursday) 9am-5pm & Oct. 27 (Friday) 9am-3pm.
Interested applicants should fill in the online form in this (deadline for applications to be 13 Oct.) link: https://www.surveygizmo.com/s3/3864735/Data-Journalism-Hong-Kong
The workshop will be run by a pair experienced trainers from DataLEADS including the founder and Editor-in-Chief of the Indian Centre for Investigative Journalism.
