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From infectious diseases to the pharmaceutical industry, from local hospitals to basic care, covering health is a rich but challenging topic.
Investigating Health
23 Friday Sep 2016
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Drones and Sensors
23 Friday Sep 2016
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It is a brand new topic for the conference, as well as a new and fashionable way to cover stories.
The Panama Paper Team
23 Friday Sep 2016
This year’s massive leak of documents exposing offshore holdings–the Panama Papers–has changed how journalists think about their craft. Collaboration, tech-savvy data analysis, and cross-border reporting are the new buzzwords.
Uncovering Asia：The Second Asian Investigative Journalism Conference
23 Friday Sep 2016
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#IJAsia2016 Uncovering Asia: The Second Asian Investigative Journalism Conference. On Kathmandu Nepal. It is a big training event, with over 60 panel discussions, workshops, and demonstrations.U can meet Panama Paper team, Spotlight team and the journalists all over the world.
How humans perceive graphics
05 Sunday Jun 2016
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As I sit at the Hong Kong airport awaiting my flight to Italy, I saw this article on Medium, a popular publishing platform. It’s by a visual journalist at The Washington Post, and it relates to the data visualization work we did this past week:
39 studies about human perception in 30 minutes
Among other things, the article raises a fascinating question: Is data visualization a science or a language — or both? As Kennedy Elliot writes:
I don’t think data visualization or data storytelling is prescriptive; I think there are many options and an infinite number of possible visualizations, many we haven’t even discovered yet.
But perhaps it’s not purely a language either. Obviously there are biases and distortions we bring with us when viewing graphing frameworks and objects, some of which is learned, but some of which seems inherent.
Story-telling with data: Phil Meyer says
26 Thursday May 2016
Greetings to Roselyn and the Data & News Society. I’m sorry that I cannot be with you in person, but I welcome this opportunity to send my image instead.
There is a new book related to my topic. Robert H. Frank of Cornell University is the author of Success and Luck. He argues that we tend to underestimate the degree to which simple good luck accounts for whatever success we have. Psychologists call this “hindsight bias.” The success of my Precision Journalism, still in print after 43 years, offers a case study. Continue reading
一張圖讀懂喬布斯數據化妝術
13 Wednesday Apr 2016
Posted in general, news story, Opinion
(This is a repost from Initiumlab.com. Find the original here http://initiumlab.com/blog/20160316-eight-myths-about-data-journalism/)
2015-10-12
喬布斯是個頂級的企業家，也是頂級的營銷家，玩起數據可視化來，也是便宜佔盡，毫不手軟。
我們選用喬布斯在2006年 Macworld 上的一張棒圖，拆解他的數據化妝術。
2006年 Macworld 上，喬布斯向觀衆展示蘋果 Mac 產品在2005年四個季度的銷量：
增長勢頭很厲害啊，不過，好像有什麼不對？
你真的了解数据新闻吗 -八大误区，你中了几枪？
16 Wednesday Mar 2016
(This is a repost from Initiumlab.com, authored by Zhou Xingchen, based on Caixin Media CTO Huang Zhimin’s HKBU talk sponsored by the Data & News Society. Find the original here http://initiumlab.com/blog/20160316-eight-myths-about-data-journalism/)
大數據、信息圖、H5、小遊戲、統計圖表、實時更新⋯這麼多炫酷的概念，似乎都與數據新聞沾點邊，可是你真的了解數據新聞嗎？
近三五年來，數據新聞一躍成為最熱門的新聞類型。不過，大家在了解、學習這種新型新聞的過程中，難免會犯些「新手錯誤」。為此，我們綜合了財新數據可視化實驗室負責人黃志敏在浸會大學的講座內容和 Initium Lab 數據新聞實操經驗，總結出八大誤區，供大家一探究竟。
誤區1 不懂大數據，就看不懂數據新聞
Wondering what a DJ award winner looks like? See some of the best works in 2015 from the globe
02 Wednesday Mar 2016
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The 2nd University Data Journalism Competition is approaching. Is data journalism still a mystery to you? Are you wondering what makes a good piece of data news entry?
If you have little clue where to start in the preparation for this competition, D&N has a tip for you or your team: take a look at the best works in this field last year from around the world – the winners of 2015 GEN Data Journalism awards.
The winning entries show a variety of how data can be used for better story-telling: from data visualisation to data investigation; from websites and web pages to News APP and individual portfolio.
D&N is posting here a wrap-up in Chinese (Original Source: see here). For English, you can go to GEN’s website for a full-scope exploration. Hope you will find inspiration!
How to use data to make a hit news story?
21 Thursday Jan 2016
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The topic comes from a Ted Talk by Sebastian Wernicke: “How to use data to make a hit TV show”. Here is the video talk:
The Data & News Society 