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Data News of the Week | North Korea Tensions

12 Sunday Nov 2017

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“North Korea” or “Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK)” are recurrent and frequent headlines in the newspapers. The recent advances in missile technology and nuclear tests threatens the world and creates a lot of geopolitical tensions. Our editor would like to share relevant data projects this week.

The “wholesale” packages

Assuming you are too busy to study all the background information and catch up the latest news, here are two must-read projects that get you up to date in 30 minutes.

☞ Immersive reporting from ESRI StoryMaps: side by side comparison of two Koreas in multiple angles [Link]

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Recap of Oct 2017 Data Journalism Bootcamp in HKBU

07 Tuesday Nov 2017

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The 2-day Data Journalism Boot Camp was successfully held in HKBU on Oct 26 and Oct 27. The event was sponsored by KAS and the workshop sessions were led by two experienced trainers from DataLEADS. Another highlight of the event was a roundtable discussion chaired by Prof. Ying Chen, where professionals shared their practices, challenges and solutions in the newsrooms.

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wget最簡爬蟲：一行命令助攻調查記者

06 Monday Nov 2017

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書寫爬蟲已經成爲數據記者的必備技能。雖然有諸如ScrapingHub、Morph、ParseHub等在線服務，可以一定程度上實現無代碼抓取網頁，但很多時候，還是需要手動編寫爬蟲邏輯。爬蟲書寫分爲兩個部分，第一個是爬，第二個是取。「爬」即是從一個網頁出發，找到它所包含的鏈接，逐一訪問，不斷重複這個過程，最終收穫到需要的頁面。這個過程和人們瀏覽網頁是類似的，有種「順藤摸瓜」的意思。「取」則是從網頁中提取有效信息的過程，將「半結構化」的網頁，轉換爲「結構化」的數據表格。

本文介紹最簡單的爬蟲，只需要一行命令： wget -r

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Data Journalism Open Lecture on November 11.

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.

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Data News of the Week | Power in China

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.

☞ 25 year’s political path to Power in China [Link]

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.

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Data Journalism Boot Camp in Hong Kong @ HKBU by KAS and DataLEADS

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.

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eCharts Workshop

30 Wednesday Aug 2017

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(This is a repost from initiumlab.com, click the link to read the original: eCharts Workshop)

Time: 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm, Sep 06 (Tue), 2016

Location: Hong Kong

Address: Unit 1907, Prosperity Millennia Plaza, 663 King’s Road, Hong Kong

Speaker: Dorothy Zhang

Summary: eCharts is an easy, powerful charting and visualization solution offering interactive and highly customizable charts to present data. In this workshop, our speaker will illustrate some typical examples and present the key implication applying ECharts on news reporting. Editors who have no programming background would have a general idea about the principle as well as make a simple but customized chart on their own. The program code for those charts is provided too.

Key words: #eChart #DataVisualization #DataJournalism

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Map Visualisation for Panama Papers and Offshore Leaks in R

29 Tuesday Aug 2017

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(This is a repost from initiumlab.com by Charlie Chen, Chao Tianyi, click the link to read the original: Map Visualisation for Panama Papers and Offshore Leaks in R)

On May 9, 2016, the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (“ICIJ” in short), a global network of journalists who collaborates on in-depth and investigative stories, released the long awaited offshore entities database behind Panama Papers Investigation.

So far, the offshore leaks database published by ICIJ includes at least 200,000 offshore entities from Panama Papers, and over 100,000 records from ICIJ’s previous investigations.

The offshore leaks database contains detailed contact postal address of all kinds of entities, offshore or non-offshore ones, officers and intermediaries, based on which we made colored maps revealing the distribution of postal address of people or companies involved in the offshore industry.

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小工具有大作用-輕鬆截屏剪裁

29 Tuesday Aug 2017

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(This is a repost from initiumlab.com, click the link to read the original: 小工具有大作用-輕鬆截屏剪裁)

截圖，是全球電腦使用者都熟悉的功能。但是，常用不代表精通。我們整理了平日常用的進階截圖技巧，或許能為大家打開新世界的大門。

技能一：全網頁截圖

截圖大家都熟悉，可是如果想要截取全網頁，而這個網頁比屏幕大怎麼辦？比方說，端傳媒的深度報導，篇篇精彩，但是大都幾千字的篇幅，想要截圖保存，能否快速搞定？

我們可以利用Firefox來實現這個想法。

第一步：打開 Firefox，打開目標網頁，調整到理想的視窗比例。

第二步：進 Tools -> Web Developer -> Toggle ToolsFirefox-capture-1.png

第三步：在彈出的窗口點擊小齒輪，選擇「Take a fullpage screenshot」，然後點擊「照相機」按鈕。

第四步：從此之後，只要打開控制台，點選照相機即可。文件會下載到 Downloads 文件夾內。

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