Data & News Salon #1 | Digital News and Interactive Reporting Projects from Taiwan Reporter
27 Tuesday Mar 2018
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Monthly Archives: March 2018
Analyze tracking errors between ETF and stock market index in the last decade
26 Monday Mar 2018
Posted in news story, Tutorial
Summary: In this article, under the context of Hong Kong’s Mandatory Provident Fund scheme (MPF), we find that some Exchange Traded Fund (ETF) occupy large holdings in a particular MPF fund. By calculating the tracking errors over the past ten years, the year of 2008 stands out with the highest tracking error, which corresponds with the global financial crisis. In other years with more stable stock markets, ETF performs relatively well. We also calculate returns between two ETFs and the indexes they track respectively; the results turn out to be different.
We use Python as a calculator, rely on pandas to read csv files downloaded from Yahoo Finance, and time series to present data in the form of charts.
Background
Hong Kong has a rapidly aging society. According to the Population Projections released by Census and Statistics Department, HK is expected to have a third of its population that aged 65 and above by the mid of 21st century. There is a growing concern over the issue of social security especially for the elderly, since the burden for the employed population in the future to take care of the retirees will be unbearable.
Data News of the Week: Hong Kong Legislative By-Election 2018
23 Friday Mar 2018
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data, data analysis, Data Journalism, data science, DNW, elections, Hong Kong, news
The hope for pro-democracy camp to regain its veto power in the legislature vanished as Edward Yiu Chung Yim failed to beat his rival Vincent Cheng Wing-shun in last week’s by-election.
Legislative By-election 2018 was held on 11 March for four vacant seats in the council, following after the oath-taking saga which disqualified six councilors. New legislators were elected from three regions – New Territories East, Kowloon West, and Hong Kong Island, as well as Architectural, Surveying, Planning and Landscape functional constituency.
Election is all about numbers – voter turnout rate, numbers of votes, and percentage of voters supporting candidate A or B, making it a golden opportunity for data visualization. In this article, we select three local news media, which are Initium, SCMP, and HK01, to discuss their different coverages on the by-election.
Data News of the Week: Sexual Assault Around The World
15 Thursday Mar 2018
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If you are a woman who is walking down the street alone in the late night, and accidentally you meet a group of guys hanging out with nowhere to go, what would happen when you pass them?
It may be the words “hey, beauty” or “hey, sexy girl,” or being instructed to smile. Or maybe more intentional: standing in the way or blocking the path in hope of some interaction. Or perhaps may get more aggressive, with hands reaching to inappropriate places. Actually, this kind of situation is far and wide, with one end harboring the potential for things to become more violent with physical abuse or rape. In Canada, the United States and The United Kingdom, women being sexually assaulted has become a serious problem. However, there is still a loophole after asking the police for help – Will the police believe you?
A 20-month investigation by The Globe and Mail reveals that sexual-assault victims are more likely to be believed in some areas of the country than in others. Continue reading
Inside Douban’s Top 250, a door pries into the world of audiences in mainland China
15 Thursday Mar 2018
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Summary: In this article, we crawl and analyze the top 250 films evaluated by DouBan users, find their preference on specific directors, types and regions, and also see trends of movies in different regions, particularly in America and Hong Kong. Besides, we pay attention to analyze the rise and down of Hong Kong film productions, and also add some background information for a better understanding.
Douban top 250
In general, the best ways to reflect a movie’s preference and prevalence are through box office and ratings. But box office is biased since lots of movies are blocked in China and people are likely to be affected by several factors. Thus, it’s more objective to examine it through ratings.
Douban Movie is a famous Chinese film rating site, with millions of users watching, rating, and commenting on movies day by day. Considering a large number of Douban users and the relatively objective measurement, data from the Top 250 list is suitable for our analysis.
轉載：嶄新展示—— 立法會數據一目了然 ｜ 獨家新聞解碼2
12 Monday Mar 2018
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端傳媒數據新聞作品《20 萬條投票紀錄帶你解碼香港立法會》搜集本屆立法會議員由 2012 年至 2015 年的立法會投票記錄，分析他們的投票取態和規律，並結合文字、圖表、視頻等 多元的手法，將海量的信息以新穎、簡明、生動的方式呈現在 公眾面前。這是一次頗為成功的數據新聞嘗試，對於今後的數 據新聞發展具有重要的參考價值。該報道獲 2016 年亞洲出版協會(SOPA)卓越資料圖像優異獎。
受《獨家新聞解碼2》邀稿，胡辟礫與巢恬逸就創作過程進行了覆盤，通過本文展示了數據分析與可視化的中間過程，關鍵圖表的取捨決斷，以及不斷強調的「用戶調查」在新聞*產品* 中的應用。Data and News Society 獲授權轉載經書本編輯的終稿。請下載 PDF：《獨家新聞解碼2》195-203 。
欲知更多新聞作品背後的故事，以及購買本書，歡迎瀏覽本書網頁。
原作品於2015年7月製作，彼時上屆立法會尚未完結，數據只覆蓋了2012-2015年。2016年上屆立法會完結後，作者使用同樣的方法對2012-2016年的全部投票進行了分析，並用交互圖表呈現投票傾向的變化。感興趣的讀者可以進一步閱讀上屆立法會有關 投票行爲 和 議案內容 的分析。
Some Scraping Targets and Ideas
10 Saturday Mar 2018
Posted in Resources
This is a casual post to dump some target sites for scraping or just project ideas. Those messages were first sent through COMM7780/JOUR7280 WeChat group. Although we have only explored part of those possibilities this semester, the list is good for future reference. We can bounce off ideas in the comment below and enrich this list.
Top Targets: Movie, Shopping and News
Let’s first have a look at what the students care about from HW2 submission:
Scraping Targets from HW2 submission – COMM7780/JOUR7280
[Wanted!] HKBU Data-driven Storytelling Competition on Mar 22 – Mar 25
09 Friday Mar 2018
Posted in Announcements, Event
The School of Communication and the Department of Journalism of HKBU will organize a University-wide “HKBU Data-driven Storytelling Competition 2018.” All full-time HKBU students (undergraduate, postgraduate, research degree students) are welcomed!
The online registration deadline is: 18 Mar 2018.
The briefing session will hold at WLB 208 at 18:30, 22 March. During the briefing session, the topic for competition will be announced on-site. Participants will form groups on-site and kick off the project. Participants can work on their projects anywhere within a 72-hour time frame, and submit their work online on 25 March 2018, pm 18:59.
Award: Champion ( 1 team, HKD 3,000); Honourable mentions ( 3 teams, HKD1,000 for each)
For details and online registration, please visit: http://datastory2018.dnnsociety.org.
Data News of the Week: A World Defended and Invaded by Data – a Technical News Story Covering NSA Files Leak
08 Thursday Mar 2018
Do you consider your personal information well protected? You use different passwords for different accounts, keep your social network activity private, even fake your profile on social media. Your efforts are probably in vain.
Everything you have done is under surveillance and your life pattern can even be figured out by people who are thousands of millions away from you. The government knows that you called Daisy three times in twenty-four hours, with one after midnight. You use Google Map in Central, Hong Kong at 2pm and your route is also recorded. You may wonder: I am just nobody. Why will somebody spare effort to analyze my data? In fact, you are somebody. Three degrees of separation points out that if you have 190 friends on Facebook, then after “three hops”, the network you can reach is even bigger than the population of Colorado.
Call for participants: E-resources Discovery Week at HKBU
07 Wednesday Mar 2018
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The HKBU Library will host its annual E-resources Discovery Week with a series of luncheon and workshops on the paid e-resources and database available for students in the coming week. Journalism students are encouraged to join as they have invited a list of star speakers on how to find credible news resources, including:
The Data & News Society 