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.
Produced by Maggie Liu, Annie Qiu, Zoya Zhao, Jasmine Zhou
Hong Kong housing price stands high all around the world in the past several years. There’s a trend reported by some news report showing that more and more people choose to buy or invest in haunted houses to solve the living problem.
(Source: data.gov.hk database)
Haunted houses refer to those that violent or tragic events, such as murder, accidental death or suicide have ever happened in the houses. As a result, the housing price of haunted houses always offers a big discount compared with other similar apartments.
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「人讀等身書，如將兵十萬。」近年，地鐵、馬路等公眾場合，隨處都能看見港人機不離手。有不少聲音說，手機的便利與普及令大眾大幅減少閱讀紙質出版物。香港人還願意捧起書本嗎？手機能否逐漸取代它們？
“I guess I cannot buy my own room in Hong Kong in my life. Impossible,” said Gina, a university student. She is near graduation this year and has to do part-time jobs while studying. In addition to facing the pressure of her studies, she also felt deeply impotent in the face of high housing prices.
Continue reading ” Imperfect strategies in tackling overheated housing market”
媽媽常說我們「食米不知米貴」，我們也總不明白主婦們為什麼要為那「一個幾毫」而跨區買菜。事實上今時今日要在街市買一頓飯菜的材料貴了多少？不同地區的食材價格差異，又真的只有「一個幾毫」嗎？
比較2016年發表的街市食品價格統計及全港地區入息中位數，當中我們發現有收入與物價不衡現象，以沙田、大埔、元朗三區情況最為嚴重，物價升幅持續上漲，高於工資升幅。有街市檔主認為問題歸咎於休漁期及內地直銷菜，亦發現食環街市於十八區分佈與人口數量不均，以沙田及西貢區最嚴重。
記者：鄧綺婷 李慧盈 王嘉琛
By: Celia Lai, Winnie Ngai, James Allen, Ellen He
Domestic helpers are an integral part in Hong Kong. Since 1973, the Hong Kong government has allowed foreign nationals to come to Hong Kong to work as domestic helpers. With over 350,000 helpers in Hong Kong, many households choose to employ foreign domestic helpers to help with a number of tasks. This is beneficial for helpers from low-income countries or regions, who can work for a higher wage than they would normally get in their home country, and send money back to help their family live more comfortably.
Continue reading “Coming Clean, what employers really want from domestic helpers”
Some students are curious about the outcome of JOUR2106 Data Visualization for News. Since there is a lot of interest, we will hold a DNN event and invite three students who took JOUR2106 last year to introduce their projects and share a personal experience. Registration: No need for sign-up in prior.
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Jiuzhaigou, a world-class scenic spot in Sichuan, China, suffered a drastic earthquake on 2017-08-08 21:19:46. People still remember the Wenchuan earthquake that caused thousands of deaths and loss of enormous properties. Does Sichuan have a lot of earthquakes in history? Which counties suffered most from the earthquakes? Pili Hu made this animated chart in D3 overnight for an overview of earthquakes happened in or around Sichuan region in the past 100 years. The data source is https://www.usgs.gov/. See the project in full page here: Sichuan Earthquake in 100 years.
(This is a repost from the students’ final projects of the DATA VISUALIZATION FOR NEWS @ HKBU Spring 2017, click the link to read the original: More Than a Nuisance)
“The noises used to be ignored were proved to be more than a nuisance, but a signal, a potential threat, and a hidden bomb of our urban life, that needs to be taken care of with greater attention.”
Julianna Wu, Fred Lai & Roy Tang make the project in a multimedia way to report on the noisy China. Including maps, charts, sounds, timeline…
(This is a repost from STUDENTS’ FINAL PROJECTS OF THETHE DATA VISUALIZATION FOR NEWS @ HKBU Spring 2017，click the link to read the full page: Hong Kong Long-term Competitiveness Research)
網頁通數據過圖表的方式呈現了香港的經濟、法治、國際網絡、勞動力等一系列的問題。研究是關於匯賢智庫發表有關香港長遠競爭力的報告，了解香港軟實力。香港的鄰近地區如新加坡，台灣，南韓等，正高速發展經濟及社會，競爭力不容忽視，本港競爭力正面臨挑戰。報告分析香港的優勢，困難及機遇，了解如何面對及計劃長遠政策。
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