A 3-hour lecture on data journalism, with focus on data visualization, for the Southern Metropolis Daily, one of the biggest circulation newspapers in Guangdong Province, China.
71. 伦敦骚乱
One 24 year-old man described his car journey from Chingford to the riot in Tottenham: "We [saw] cars and
there were groups of boys. Only group of boys in vans. And they were speeding down the motorway tryna
get to that direction … everyone was communicating. Everyone was putting their hazards on. It was all a
laugh. It was like a, just a fun day out. There was no law. Nothing to control us...So we got there. They
blocked off the exit towards the Tottenham junction and we saw about 12 police vans parading down the
motorway at that same time. Everyone was speeding past them. Everyone was swearing at them. People
were flashing their hazards, putting on their beams. The police just carried on driving. They didn't stop for
no-one."
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/datablog/video/2011/dec/05/england-riots-commute-map
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/datablog/2011/dec/05/england-riots-distance-travelled-map
72. 伦敦骚乱
"These riots were not about poverty," said David
Cameron. "That insults the millions of people who,
whatever the hardship, would never dream of
making others suffer like this."
But the question is: how do we know? If poverty
affects health, education and crime, could it be a
factor in the events of last week?
We wanted to know what would happen if we
overlayed those addresses with the poverty
indicators mapped by England's Indices of Multiple
Deprivation, which cover very small areas. We had
already done this with the riot locations
themselves, but knowing where people came from
seems a better indicator, especially if people were
travelling.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/2011/aug/16/riots-poverty-map-suspects
86. Insight no longer comes from access to
information but from your ability to make
sense of it.
And we cannot solve information overload
simply by trying to read more articles. We
don’t have the time nor the brain capacity.
Kristofer Månsson
CEO of Silobreaker
87. Recorded Future
“What companies are working on fuel cell
products expected between 2012 and 2015?“
“Which heads of state visited
Libya in 2010?“
“What pharma companies are
releasing new products in the
first quarter of 2012?”
don’t assume everything’s easy in the west\n
http://www.censtatd.gov.hk/home/index.jsp\n Hong Kong’s Census and Statistics Department is a one-stop shop for government statistics on economic indicators, demographics, health, labor, and many other areas.\n
http://www.hkexnews.hk/listedco/listconews/mainindex/SEHK_LISTEDCO_DATETIME_TODAY.htm\n Hong Kong Exchange: Warehouse of information for companies listed in Hong Kong, including interim and annual reports, and required disclosures such as acquisitions of more than 15 per cent of a company, change of senior executives.\n
Webb-site: An independent website that tracks HK company disclosures, news and other events. A good place to start, but it is always good practice to check back with the original source.\n Webb-site.com was established in 1998 by David M. Webb, a former investment banker who has lived in Hong Kong since 1991. We provide anindependent commentary on corporate and economic governance, business, finance, investment and regulatory affairs in Hong Kong. Webb-site.com is run on a not-for-profit basis.\n
http://www.google.com/publicdata/home\n
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back to the question of information vs. data\n
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Fields: Design, Communication, Information and their mix: Visual Communication, Data  journalism, User Interface\nRaw elements: Look & Feel, Idea, Data\nDisciplines: Journalism, Information Architecture, Typography\nProcess elements: Visual Design, Objective, Dataset\nOutputs: Layout, Story, Report, Data Analysis, Dashboard, Interface\nFinal result: Form, Concept, Knowledge\nCore competencies: Readability, Logic, Usability\nCore values: Simplicity, Informativeness, Relevance\n
It takes 300,000 Web pages per hour from 40,000 to 50,000 Internet sources and digests the information to create a database.\nRecorded Future works with structure such as people, places, products and companies; events such as meetings, travels, acquisitions, earning calls and natural disasters; and ontologies or hierarchies that explain groupings such as world leaders, corporations or technology areas. \n