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A dossier of data journalism teaching strategies: Words from journalism educators worldwide

02 Friday Aug 2019

Posted by R. Du in Article, Opinion, Resources

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data, Data Journalism, ddj, journalism education

This is a repost from https://datajournalism.com/read/longreads/a-dossier-of-data-journalism-teaching-strategies

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“It doesn’t matter which country you’re in, or what university you visit, there’s a common refrain that you’ll hear in the halls of J-schools across the globe: “I’m not good at math”.

Of course, this aversion often leads to a self-fulfilling prophecy. If students don’t think they’re good at numbers, they avoid them altogether. Yet, to find and accurately report on stories in today’s data intensive society, journalists need these skills.

This calls for a reconsideration of journalism programmes around the world. Teachers need to ask themselves: What are the most relevant strategies to equip students with the skills required for finding facts in datasets? To understand them? To scrutinise them? And to communicate them to the public in the most appropriate and understandable manner?

There’s a lot to be learnt from teachers of all backgrounds. So, in this Long Read, we’ve curated a dossier of reflections from nine educators in seven countries to start understanding the most effective ways to introduce students to data.” Continue reading →

Data Journalism Online Open Lecture

03 Wednesday Oct 2018

Posted by Bobo Wei in Announcement, Event, Open Lecture

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data, Data Journalism, New Media, news

Time: Oct. 12, 2018 (Fri.), 9:45 a.m.-10:45 a.m.

Venue: CVA 506, HKBU

Speaker: Aaron Mendelson

Language: English

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Data & News Salon #2 | From open source and open data to data journalism and civic engagement — Practice from MirrorMedia and READr

10 Sunday Jun 2018

Posted by Bobo Wei in Announcements, Colloquium, Event, Open Lecture

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從開放源碼、開放數據到數據新聞、公民參與 — 來自鏡傳媒與READr的實踐

From open source and open data to data journalism and civic engagement — Practice from MirrorMedia and READr

 

Time: 14/6/2018 (Thur), 1:30 p.m.-2:30 p.m.

Venue: CVA105, HKBU

Speakers: 簡信昌 & 李又如

Language: Mandarin | 國語

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Data News of the Week: Hong Kong Legislative By-Election 2018

23 Friday Mar 2018

Posted by Janice in Opinion, Resources

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data, data analysis, Data Journalism, data science, DNW, elections, Hong Kong, news

The hope for pro-democracy camp to regain its veto power in the legislature vanished as Edward Yiu Chung Yim failed to beat his rival Vincent Cheng Wing-shun in last week’s by-election.

Legislative By-election 2018 was held on 11 March for four vacant seats in the council, following after the oath-taking saga which disqualified six councilors. New legislators were elected from three regions – New Territories East, Kowloon West, and Hong Kong Island, as well as Architectural, Surveying, Planning and Landscape functional constituency.

Election is all about numbers – voter turnout rate, numbers of votes, and percentage of voters supporting candidate A or B, making it a golden opportunity for data visualization. In this article, we select three local news media, which are Initium, SCMP, and HK01, to discuss their different coverages on the by-election.

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Data News of the Week | Gender Pay Gap: Why and How?

01 Thursday Mar 2018

Posted by harprrrr in Resources, Tutorial

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data, data news, DNW, gender, gender gap, news game, pay gap

Professor Jordan Peterson has been the center of attention in last few weeks for participating in a number of debates regarding gender wage gap. Unlike the feminists calling for the reduction of discrimination over salary, he believes gender wage gap is an explainable consequence of multiple social factors rather than a problem caused by discrimination. Is he right? After all, why is there gender wage gap? Looking into 3 reports (Why is There a Gender Wage Gap – Our World in Data, Six Key Facts About the Gender Pay Gap – Our World in Data, Gender Pay Gap: the Day Women Start Working For Free – Washington Post) and a  published recently with analytics over statistics regarding gender wage gap will give us a thorough understanding of current gender wage gap. Continue reading →

Data News of the Week | What can we, the 20-year-old, do to change the world?

23 Friday Feb 2018

Posted by jessiepyt in Resources, Tutorial

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data, data analysis, data cases, data collection, Data Journalism, Datamining, DNW, Heatmap, Strava

Nathan Ruser, a 20-year-old Australian National University student who is majoring in international security with a keen interest in cartography, discovered a fitness app had revealed the locations of secret military sites in Syria and elsewhere. He posted on Twitter about this, did not expect much response.

But the news ricocheted across the internet. Security experts said the Strave app’s “heat map” could be used by hostile entities glean valuable intelligence. The Pentagon said it was reviewing the situation.

How he found the news?

 “Whoever thought that operational security could be wrecked by a Fitbit?” Mr. Ruser, said in an interview with New York Times from Thailand, where he is spending part of the Australian summer break.

When he looked over Syria on Strava’s map — which is based on location data from millions of users, including military personnel, who share their exercise activity — the area “lit up with those U.S. bases,” he said.

Before publicly sharing his findings over the weekend, he discussed them in a private chat group on Twitter, made up of people interested in intelligence and security issues. “I know about two-thirds of what I know about the world from the group chats,” he said.

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農曆新年學習資料大禮包!Data Journalism Learning Tools

14 Wednesday Feb 2018

Posted by Bobo Wei in Book, Resources, Tool, Tutorial

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農曆新年伊始,小編在此給各位愛學習的小夥伴推薦一些學習Data Journalism有用的線上課程,資料和工具。希望新的一年,大家學業進步!順順利利!(原文部分轉載自 initiumlab.com, 有部分編輯, 點擊查看更多: 學習資料清單)

  • 系列課程:從查找資料開始、學習解讀資料的意義、資料視覺化到用資料說故事。

1.Doing Journalism with Data: First Steps, Skills and Tools(課程在LEARNO.NET平台開放,一共5節,直接註冊,免費學習)

http://learno.net/courses/doing-journalism-with-data-first-steps-skills-and-tools

2.Data Exploration and Storytelling(數據大師Alberto Cairo & Heather Krause開設)

https://publicmediaalliance.org/free-online-course-data-exploration-storytelling/

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Data News of the Week | Trump Lies and His Job Promises

01 Thursday Feb 2018

Posted by Erin Chan in Article, Resources

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data, Data Visualization, DNW, Trump

It has been more than a year under Donald Trump’s administration. Trump has made a lot of groundless claims and job promises which happen arbitrarily. Some newsagents keep a record of it and visualize the frequency. To criticise the act of the president in a more grounded way, The New York Times compares the lies frequency between Trump’s and the former president Barack Obama. We also dug deeper into one of his promises in his election platform which is job creation and employment enhancement. From which, we adopted a project from ProPublica. The following will discuss the visualization, the use of words and the effects of the two projects. 

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[Repost] Reflections on the talk by Prof Ikhlaq Sidhu on Artificial Intelligence

28 Sunday Jan 2018

Posted by Xinzhi Zhang in Article, comment, Opinion

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Prof Ikhlaq Sidhu on the DataXHKBU workshop on 26 Jan (by Xinzhi Zhang)

Note: This post was originally contributed as an entry to the Communicar Journal Blog on 28 Jan 2018. The author would like to repost it to the D&N Society]

Reflections on the talk by Prof Ikhlaq Sidhu on Artificial Intelligence

“Will AI help the film directors to make better movies? – Yes! But will AI replace the film directors and become directors? – No!” – Prof Ikhlaq Sidhu.

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Mario Game Workshop on Feb. 3rd, 2018

24 Wednesday Jan 2018

Posted by Bobo Wei in Announcements, Event

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Event information

  • Date: February 3rd, 2018 (Saturday)
  • Time: 09:30 – 12:30
  • Venue: FSC901CD, Hong Kong Baptist University, Kowloon Tong, Kowloon, Hong Kong [Map]

Mobile games are fun to play and also fun to build. You will experience building a mobile game in this workshop using Corona SDK. Corona SDK is an easy-to-learn Software Development Kit for building cross-platform games.

No programming background required.

Register here: [Mario Game Workshop]

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