30 Monday Oct 2017
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Shan HE, Project director of Greenovation Hub, Public Lab Organizer, member of Guangzhou International Dragon Boat team. Living in Changzhou island in Guangzhou, is coming to Hong Kong Baptist University on 11 November to talk about Environment Issue, Open Technology and Data Visualisation.
When: 11:30 AM-12:10 PM, Nov. 11, 2017 (Saturday).
Where: Room 703, 7/F, Communication and Visual Arts Building, Hong Kong Baptist University.
29 Sunday Oct 2017
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The closing session of 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China finished this week. New Politburo Standing Committee presented to the Media, putting Beijing in the centre of world attention. This DNW hand-picks recent data news related to Power in China.
Bloomberg Politics made an unconventional data visualisation to show The Path to Power in China. Readers can easily tell running a Big Region is important in China, by reading the following line chart. The chart successfully turned categorical position data into ordinal data by sorting the importance, namely number of people who entered Standing Committee from that position.
18 Wednesday Oct 2017
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Noble Prize and Policy Address 2017.
Nobel Prize. Michael Greshko from National Geographic finds out that Nearly 900 People Have Won Nobel Prizes. Only 48 Were Women. The gender gap exists, regardless that female winners are increasing in recent years.
09 Monday Oct 2017
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Dear all,
We are honoured to introduce you a one and a half day Data Journalism Boot Camp in Hong Kong.
Location (Map): Room 506, 5/F, Communication and Visual Arts Building (CVA), Hong Kong Baptist University.
Time: Oct. 26 (Thursday) 9am-5pm & Oct. 27 (Friday) 9am-3pm.
Interested applicants should fill in the online form in this (deadline for applications to be 13 Oct.) link: https://www.surveygizmo.com/s3/3864735/Data-Journalism-Hong-Kong
The workshop will be run by a pair experienced trainers from DataLEADS including the founder and Editor-in-Chief of the Indian Centre for Investigative Journalism.
02 Saturday Sep 2017
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D3, data, earthquake
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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.
30 Wednesday Aug 2017
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(This is a repost from initiumlab.com, click the link to read the original: eCharts Workshop)
Time: 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm, Sep 06 (Tue), 2016
Location: Hong Kong
Address: Unit 1907, Prosperity Millennia Plaza, 663 King’s Road, Hong Kong
Speaker: Dorothy Zhang
Summary: eCharts is an easy, powerful charting and visualization solution offering interactive and highly customizable charts to present data. In this workshop, our speaker will illustrate some typical examples and present the key implication applying ECharts on news reporting. Editors who have no programming background would have a general idea about the principle as well as make a simple but customized chart on their own. The program code for those charts is provided too.
Key words: #eChart #DataVisualization #DataJournalism
29 Tuesday Aug 2017
(This is a repost from initiumlab.com by Charlie Chen, Chao Tianyi, click the link to read the original: Map Visualisation for Panama Papers and Offshore Leaks in R)
On May 9, 2016, the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (“ICIJ” in short), a global network of journalists who collaborates on in-depth and investigative stories, released the long awaited offshore entities database behind Panama Papers Investigation.
So far, the offshore leaks database published by ICIJ includes at least 200,000 offshore entities from Panama Papers, and over 100,000 records from ICIJ’s previous investigations.
The offshore leaks database contains detailed contact postal address of all kinds of entities, offshore or non-offshore ones, officers and intermediaries, based on which we made colored maps revealing the distribution of postal address of people or companies involved in the offshore industry.
29 Tuesday Aug 2017
(This is a repost from initiumlab.com, click the link to read the original: 小工具有大作用-輕鬆截屏剪裁)
截圖，是全球電腦使用者都熟悉的功能。但是，常用不代表精通。我們整理了平日常用的進階截圖技巧，或許能為大家打開新世界的大門。
截圖大家都熟悉，可是如果想要截取全網頁，而這個網頁比屏幕大怎麼辦？比方說，端傳媒的深度報導，篇篇精彩，但是大都幾千字的篇幅，想要截圖保存，能否快速搞定？
我們可以利用Firefox來實現這個想法。
第一步：打開 Firefox，打開目標網頁，調整到理想的視窗比例。
第二步：進 Tools -> Web Developer -> Toggle Tools
第三步：在彈出的窗口點擊小齒輪，選擇「Take a fullpage screenshot」，然後點擊「照相機」按鈕。
第四步：從此之後，只要打開控制台，點選照相機即可。文件會下載到 Downloads 文件夾內。
29 Tuesday Aug 2017
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(This is a repost from initiumlab.com, click the link to read the original: Time Saving One-Liners for Journalists)
For journalists who do not code, after reading this article, you will master 15 one-line commands that can help you handle complex problems in seconds.
Initium Lab has collected various command line tricks as we hack journalism with technology. Here is our editor’s choice so far including: image processing, video processing, PDF manipulation, social network hacking and other useful one-liners. Just open your Terminal, and follow the steps.
28 Monday Aug 2017
(This is a repost from initiumlab.com by Chao Tianyi, click the link to read the original: 關係圖表速成方案：Google Fusion Tables & Kumu)
2015年下半年，中紀委反腐風暴席捲石油界，多名巨頭遭到中央拘捕和調查。相同時期，香港商人徐京華在北京一家酒店被帶走。徐身份神秘，擁有多個國籍和化名，長期從事中國和非州兩國石油貿易。端傳媒曾製作重磅調查報導，揭開徐京華的跨國能源帝國如何運作，以及他和中石化的關係。調查過程中，記者挖掘出了大量人物之間、公司之間、人物與公司之間的材料，此時，繪製一張關係圖顯得非常必要，藉此，記者可以深度挖掘隱匿在網絡中的信息。
如何迅速製作出一張圖呢？本文會提供 Google Fusion Tables 和 Kumu 兩種方案。
不論採用哪種工具製作，最初都需要將原始資料從 research notes 整理成結構化的信息。
The Data & News Society 