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[Tools] Online Verification Tools – Notes from Google @ GEN 2018

07 Thursday Jun 2018

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At this year’s GEN (Global Editors Network) summit, Google News Initiative shared their notes regarding data journalism resources, particularly for investigative research and verification by online forensics. Here are some excerpts and we get a copy from Google News Lab, which you may find the complete notes attached at the end.

Research Tools

  • Google Public Data Explorer provides public data and forecasts from a range of international organizations and academic institutions. Visualized data are ready to interpret.
  • Google Trends compares search terms in a country and timeframe of your choice.

Verification Tools

Find more on data journalism training and multimedia toolsets below:

Q2 2018_ Workshop Notes 2018

轉載：如何標準化數據可視化之「美」？

12 Monday Feb 2018

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轉載自 全球深度報導網 Repost from Global Investigative Journalism Network (GIJN)

Original Article（本文由簡體中文轉爲繁體中文）

媒體在數字化轉型中，越來越多地用數據可視化作為呈現方式。但許多可視化的作品只是追求形式上的美感，沒有實現數據可視化真正的功能：清晰有效地傳達信息，使讀者更形象地理解數字背後的含義。媒體推出的可視化新聞良莠不齊，水準忽上忽下，卻少有懂行的同行或讀者給予反饋。本週的數據新聞給讀者介紹由Perceptual Edge網站創始人、信息視覺化專家Stephen Few提出的一個標準化衡量規則，評價可視化是否達到了必要的效果。

Few認為，標準化的規則能讓大眾針對同一個方面給予評價，而不只再用空泛的語言描述一些模糊的印象。他認為，可視化的效果分為兩大類，分別是信息豐富性（Informative）和情緒感染力(Emotive)。前者考量的是數據可視化能讓讀者接收到多少信息，後者則衡量能否讓讀者產生一定的情緒反饋。在這兩大類之下，還有七個細分的小標準。信息豐富性涵蓋了五個維度：實用性、完整性、讀者接受度、真實性和直觀性。情緒感染力有兩層含義：一個是美感，另一個是用戶參與度。

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Tableau Student Viz Assignment Contest (Jan 8 – May 29, 2018)

03 Saturday Feb 2018

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Just created a visual for an assignment? Turn it into an awarding winning work by submitting it to the Tableau Student Vis Assignment Contest (Round II 2018)!

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(Round I First PlaceWinner, Perusing the New York Times #1 Best Seller List)

Entry Eligibility:

  • Visuals should be created in Tableau, within the period of Jan 8 – May 29, 2018.
  • Participants should be currently enrolled in a degree-granting program.
  • Dataset used should publicly accessible.
  • Submit your work by publishing your visual to your Tableau Public profile

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Create Simple Filled Map (HK) in Tableau

02 Friday Feb 2018

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Creating a filled map using JavaScript libraries might take you much time to get it work. This tutorial demonstrates how data visualization tool Tableau provide a decent and handy solution (*Note: Hong Kong Map feature is only available after version 10).

The final product can be found here: https://public.tableau.com/profile/roy.tang#!/vizhome/SimpleFilledMap/Dashboard1

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Tech Review of Urban Noise Project

03 Wednesday Jan 2018

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The project of Urban Noise is a interactive report concerning the urban noise issue in China, presented as a single web-page hosted on Github and integrated with multimedia attempts to visualize information. The team consisted of three journalism students and the production period took for around two weeks. This article is a brief tech review of the Urban Noise project, walking through how it was built up and what tools were used.

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