01 Wednesday Jun 2016
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.
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.
01 Wednesday Jun 2016
Posted in Announcements, Resources
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.
31 Tuesday May 2016
Posted in Announcements, Resources
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.
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!
28 Saturday May 2016
Posted in Announcements, Resources
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!
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
06 Friday May 2016
Posted in Announcements, Resources
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).
*Please RSVP with your full name same as ID/Passport. A certificate will be issued to you upon completion of the workshop series.
26 Tuesday Apr 2016
Posted in Resources
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
20 Wednesday Apr 2016
by Roselyn Du
(This is a repost from Comunicar – Media Education Research Journal. Find the original here https://comunicarjournal.wordpress.com/2016/04/20/data-news-in-the-pulitzers/)
The Pulitzers are now in their centennial year. A hundred years is a long way to go. Along the way, there are milestones that are remembered. One in 2012, marked by Huffington Post. Its military correspondent David Wood won in the National Reporting category with his 10-part series “Beyond the Battlefields”. That milestone celebrates the first win for the then seven-year-old Huffington Post and evidences the Pulitzer committee’s recognition of online-only news. As the president and editor-in-chief of the “paper” Arianna Huffington commented, it was an affirmation that great journalism could thrive on the Web.
Another in 2016. Yes, freshly out yesterday. The New Yorker became the first magazine to win a Pulitzer, with Emily Nussbaum’s critical reviews. In 2015, for the first time ever, magazines were permitted to enter the awards and the New Yorker was finalisted for feature writing.
I am actually waiting for another milestone. One for data journalism. In the journalism classes I teach, I’ve always asked my students, “when do you think there will be an award category in the Pulitzer for data news?”
19 Tuesday Apr 2016
Posted in Opinion
As news people, we tell truth all the time.
Or are we?!
More and more news are having data as hard evidence to quantify objective facts, so it looks firm, professional and utterly true.
I hate to break it to you, but this is NOT the case! How? Here’s a common example suggested by Dr. Tong Tiejun during the monthly colloquium held by the Data & News Society. Continue reading
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