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Data & News Society Inaugural Colloquium

03 Sunday Jan 2016

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The inaugural colloquium of the Data and News Society brought academics and practitioners together on 16 December to present news stories and accompanying visual displays. The inaugural speaker was Hu Pili, director and data scientist from the Initium Lab at Initium Media, which explores the ways of analysing and visualising data within journalism. Mr Hu demonstrated how the lab used voting records from the Hong Kong Legislative Council from Oct 2012 to June 2015 to create a visual display that allows readers to see how individual council members voted in relation to party lines. The graphic was also 3D-printed for the visually impaired. Continue reading →

Pushing the Limits with Technology-Inaugural Colloquium

18 Friday Dec 2015

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December, 16th, Wednesday, 2015

Founded by Dr. Roselyn Du at Hong Kong Baptist University, the Data & News Society kicked off its inaugural colloquium on Dec.16 (Wed), 2015. Attendees included some of its members (teachers from Dept. of Computer Science, Math & CHTL and Ph.D students), as well as general public interested in the subject. Since the very start of its establishment, the Society has been well recognized and supported by a wide array of academic and professional resources. Prof. Huang Yu, Dean of the School of Communication and Dr. Alice Lee, head of Department of Journalism showed their generous support by giving opening remarks at the colloquium.

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The Blossoming World of Data Visualisation

27 Friday Nov 2015

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When “Data” and “News” get married, they have a lot of babies who have different characteristics, which means “Data Journalism Family” inevitably involves many fields about “Data Science“.

Yesterday I came to a meetup held in WanChai about data visualisation (one of the family’s child in data journalism). The speaker is Mart, and here is his Bio from Trello: Continue reading →