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Top Data News of the Week: Who Will Win the April 26 Primaries?

26 Tuesday Apr 2016

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The big data is becoming more and more usual with daily news, and yet a presidential campaign is where it really comes handy. On the other side of the world, an intensive race is going on to decide who will be the next POTUS. Of course, first thing first, Democrat and Republican have to have a single candidate of their own. Five eastern states, including the key swing state of Pennsylvania will hold primaries in just few hours. So who they will pick? The Bloomberg assembled some index try to work out the winner of next key moment (find the origianl here http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2016-04-25/who-will-win-the-april-26-primaries-six-views-point-to-trump-and-clinton). Continue reading →

Top data news of the week: The Panama Papers

08 Friday Apr 2016

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The most explosive news of last week may be the publishing of Panama Papers. It first starts with one of the biggest secrecy leaks in the history, including 11.5 million confidential documents linked with 214,000 offshore companies in Mossack Fonseca, obtained by a Germany Paper Süddeutsche Zeitung from an anonymous source in 2015. They then worked with International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ), which distributed documents for investigation and analysis to some 400 journalists at 107 media organizations in more than eighty countries. It took them a year to draw a worldwide picture of “politicians, criminals and the rogue industry that hides their cash”.  Continue reading →

Data News of the Week|The Panama Papers

08 Friday Apr 2016

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The most explosive news of last week may be the publishing of Panama Papers. It first starts with one of the biggest secrecy leaks in the history, including 11.5 million confidential documents linked with 214,000 offshore companies in Mossack Fonseca, obtained by a Germany Paper Süddeutsche Zeitung from an anonymous source in 2015. They then worked with International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ), which distributed documents for investigation and analysis to some 400 journalists at 107 media organizations in more than eighty countries. It took them a year to draw a worldwide picture of “politicians, criminals and the rogue industry that hides their cash”.  Continue reading →

你真的了解数据新闻吗 -八大误区，你中了几枪？

16 Wednesday Mar 2016

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(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

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Call for Entries! The 2nd University Data Journalism Competition

24 Wednesday Feb 2016

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Call for entries!

Fudan University’s School of Journalism, Caixin Data Visualization Lab and US-China Education Trust announces the launch of the second University Data Journalism Competition. (Original Source: See here)

We encourage students, colleagues, and alumni from HKBU to participate in the playground! The competition is open to university students of all levels and disciplines, submissions can be by individuals or by teams. Teams are allowed to work with journalists to serve as support.

Moreover – guess who is the guest speaker for D&N Society March Colloquium?

Mr. Huang Zhimin, one of the three judges for the competition, will come to HKBU on March 11 to be our guest speaker for D&N’s March colloquium. It will be an exclusive opportunity for our students to ask for advice if they want to run for the awards.

Details of the event are as below:

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数据抓取，开放数据干货集锦

24 Wednesday Feb 2016

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Recommended books for journalists who would like to do data journalism:

  1. Scraping for Journalists by Paul Bradshaw
  2. Data Journalism Heist by Paul Bradshaw

Open Data Resources:

  1. CKAN
  2. Open Knowledge Foundation
  3. Open Data Institute
  4. Knight Foundation
  5. Sunlight Foundation
  6. U.S. government’s open data portal: Contains about 85,000 searchable data sets.

Tools recommended:

  1. Quandl
  2. Raw