| Time | Sat, 9:30am - 12:30am |
|---|---|
| Venue | HKBU CVA703 |
| Course Repo | https://github.com/hkbu-jour2106 |
Anyone interested in data journalism, data visualisation and data analytics can join the class. You can follow our GitHub organisation to find all the course materials. You can also join the Slack channel to discuss with the other participants. Please send email to e@hupili.net with an introduction of yourself to get the invitation. If you want to participate in the classroom, please come at Saturday 9:30am - 12:30pm, HKBU CVA703. However, the capacity of classroom and facility is limited, so the priority is given to officially enrolled students.
As data becomes increasingly important in news reporting, this course helps students learn the fundamental principles, tools and workflow to visualise data. Each class is composed of half lecture session and half lab session so that students can get adequate guided exercises. The course mainly focuses on data visualisation although it covers basic data analytics and data journalism workflow just to be self-contained. Among many visualisation techniques and tools, this course focuses on the web stack, because most content are distributed via (mobile) web-based technology at present. Students will learn the end-to-end production and deployment of a web-based story, foundations of HTML/CSS/Javascript and visualisation libraries likes eCharts, D3, Leaflet, ... By finishing this course, students are expected to build one web-based data visualisation news story and distribute the project via their own websites.
Pili Hu is the lead of technology team of Initium Media and Lion Finance. While affiliated with Initium as Data Scientist and Director of Initium Lab, he led the project of Analysing Hong Kong Legislative Council Voting Records and won SOPA 2016 Excellence in Infographics. He is also active participant in local open source, open data and hacks & hackers community.
Roy Zhang is an HKBU Computer Science Final Year Student. He has a deep understanding of cyber security and practical exploit skill. With solid programming foundation in Java, C#, and Python, he will help you figure out how does code work.
Echo Guan is a current MSc student majoring in Advanced Information System at HKBU. She is proficient in using advanced computer data analysing software such as SPSS, Excel, SAS, R and MySQL. She will assist in the lab-classes operation and coordinate course programs.
Tianyi comes from journalism background and has worked closely with newsroom geeks for long. She participanted and supported various news projects while at Initium. At the same time, she is an active member of Initium Lab and related communities. In the following semester, She will learn coding with you, and help bridge the two worlds of coding and news reporing.