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Data Visualization Tools We learnt on 3rd Day of Jeff’s Workshop

02 Thursday Jun 2016

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Infogr.am

  • Merits:
  1. A fast tool to make an eye-tracking chart, used in American news organizations;
  2. Free themes to choose;
  3. Good color palette;
  4. Interactive charts;
  5. Add title, subtitle, body text and etc.
  • Shortcoming:
  1. Could not adjust size of callout and numbers along the axis;
  2. The callout would not show if the portion of the pie chart is so small;
  3. The map’s color is distributed randomly, not in a pattern.

Silk.co

It is a very good tool with fancy communications between users and the software. You could publish your story online with this tool.

StoryMapJS

It is a very good tool to tell stories with maps and media.

 

Live Streaming: D&N Workshops Day 6, the final encounter

02 Thursday Jun 2016

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Good Thursday morning!

We spent our first two days with Prof. Jeff South of VCU working on data collection and analysis. Can’t believe today is already the last day of the workshop series: We will continue with Jeff on data visualization.

You can tune in to the live stream of our webcast via the following links and enjoy the workshops with us:

2 June Morning
http://chtl01.hkbu.edu.hk/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=694cd1ca-ac56-4d31-85d6-26febd40cc0d

2 June Afternoon
http://chtl01.hkbu.edu.hk/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=bf9ef13b-bc04-4116-b0d1-06977f711de9

Last but not least, Jeff has a fans group in Hong Kong already.

How much do you know about nuclear power in China?

01 Wednesday Jun 2016

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Participated in the data-driven news competition in China, we constructed a font-end page using HTML5, CSS3 and javascript: 新能源：核电知识知多少？

We built the page with tiny basic knowledge of “the Big 3” in 5 days, including one day learning from Zhou Yongkang’s case by Caixin.

I would not say it is a news story though “nuclear” is currently a very hot topic around the world, because it is rather a pile of skills／process of fresh learners of “the Big 3” language.

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Play with Data – Inspired by Jeff’s Workshop – Day 2

01 Wednesday Jun 2016

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During Jeff’s workshop, we played with a lot of data sets and were armed with Excel skills. For me, after constructing the Excel tutorial and did a review of Excel, the knowledge would be as solid as possible.

       1st data set is from world bank: life expectancy at birth.

         Just remember that every time you play with a data set, just make a copy it, and keep the original in case that you mess up with the data.

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Live Streaming: D&N Workshops Day 5

01 Wednesday Jun 2016

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Good Wednesday morning!

We spent our first day with Prof. Jeff South of VCU yesterday and learned lots of data collection skills. Today, Jeff will continue with us on data analysis.

You can tune in to the live stream of our webcast via the following links and enjoy the workshops with us:

1 June Morning
http://chtl01.hkbu.edu.hk/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=e8cd7b0e-6cce-4647-9fea-b8e3cfeca120

1 June Afternoon

http://chtl01.hkbu.edu.hk/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=a86def55-b2e8-48af-aff6-f54c26d44142

Cheers.

Live Streaming: D&N Workshops Day 4

31 Tuesday May 2016

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Good Tuesday morning.

We spent a beautiful day with Initium Media CTO Hu Pili yesterday. Today, Prof. Jeff South from Virginia Commonwealth University starts his first day with us.

You can tune in to the live stream of our webcast via the following links and enjoy the workshops with us:

May 31 Morning Session:
http://chtl01.hkbu.edu.hk/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=dc7e69aa-0c53-470a-ac06-93834bf4d2c1

May 31 Afternoon Session:

http://chtl01.hkbu.edu.hk/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=ca75c276-8738-4001-8143-998c8ad87b6a

Cheers.

Live Streaming: D&N Workshops Day 3

30 Monday May 2016

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Good Monday Morning!

We are now into Day 3 of the Workshops and today we have Mr. Hu Pili from Initium Media of Hong Kong with us.

You can tune in to the live stream of our webcast via the following links and enjoy the workshops with us:

30 May Morning Session:

http://chtl01.hkbu.edu.hk/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=3b2829b7-1039-4849-894f-b99f4854349a

30 May Afternoon Session:

http://chtl01.hkbu.edu.hk/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=9ac3d676-3d23-49a8-a796-b82c7907fb4e

Cheers!

Live Streaming: D&N Workshops Day 2

28 Saturday May 2016

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We had a fabulous time yesterday! And today we will continue with Ms. Silva Shih from FTChinese.com with more data journalism topics and hands-on practice.

You can tune in to the live stream of our webcast via the following links and enjoy the workshops with us today:

May 28th, Morning session

http://chtl01.hkbu.edu.hk/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=f43d05ae-05e6-42da-9f6d-5c5e7e9306cb

May 28th, Afternoon session
http://chtl01.hkbu.edu.hk/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=261e78ec-2c0d-4793-8004-be7390ed5cd4

Cheers!

Story-telling with data: Phil Meyer says

26 Thursday May 2016

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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 →

The Data & News Society Workshops 2016

06 Friday May 2016

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As the annual highlight of our Data & News Society, this workshop series will bring you a close look at the current state of data journalism, as well as how it works and future directions.

We are honored to present to you three marvelous speakers in this workshop week, May 27 – June 2 (10:00-17:30 each day with a one-day break on Sunday, May 29).

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*Please RSVP with your full name same as ID/Passport. A certificate will be issued to you upon completion of the workshop series.