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.
A introductory lecture on how international media is using data visualization to tell stories. Some live demonstrations in the class are not reflected in the slides. Also the in-class exercises are not included.
Data! Action! Data journalism issues to watch in the next 10 yearsPaul Bradshaw
Keynote at the Nordic data journalism conference #NODA16 - an outline of issues facing data journalism which journalists and academics need to focus on in the next decade.
An overview on big data, big data analytics, data products and data scientist. My contribution at WAYDAY11 (a Bit Bang Web Analytics Day, Milan, Italy, 11.11.11)
A introductory lecture on how international media is using data visualization to tell stories. Some live demonstrations in the class are not reflected in the slides. Also the in-class exercises are not included.
Data! Action! Data journalism issues to watch in the next 10 yearsPaul Bradshaw
Keynote at the Nordic data journalism conference #NODA16 - an outline of issues facing data journalism which journalists and academics need to focus on in the next decade.
An overview on big data, big data analytics, data products and data scientist. My contribution at WAYDAY11 (a Bit Bang Web Analytics Day, Milan, Italy, 11.11.11)
Data-driven journalism (GIJC, Geneva April 2010) #ddjMirko Lorenz
Can the analysis of data help investigative journalism? Could new workflows working with data create more substantial reporting and thus finance costly investigations? This talk tried to provide food for thought for these questions, not the final answers. Work ahead on this...
I delivered this shorter version of my Gov. Transformation Through Public Data presentation at the Personal Democracy Forum 2008 in June.
(watch in full screen mode to read the narration). While this version concentrates on government, IMHO the same tools are valid for corporations, with similar benefits, as part of an Enterprise 2.0 strategy.
Heavy, Messy, Misleading: why Big Data is a human problem, not a tech onePulsar
"Big data" has been around for a few years now but for every hundred people talking about it there’s probably only one actually doing it. As a result Big Data has become the preferred vehicle for inflated expectations and misguided strategy.
As always, the seed of the issue is in the expression itself. Big Data is not so much about a quality of the data or the tools to mine it, it’s about a new approach to product, policy or business strategy design. And that’s way harder and trickier to implement than any new technology stack.
In this talk we look at where Big Data is going, what are the real opportunities, limitations and dangers and what can we do to stop talking about it and start doing it today.
Networks, swarms and policy: what collective intelligence means for policy ma...Alberto Cottica
Policy makers are taking up network thinking; citizens are self-organizing in smart swarms displaying collectivley intelligent behaviour. I address the implications of these phenomena for policy making, and look at some tools being built by a project called CATALYST that might help both citizens and policy makers.
Metanomics: Federal Interest in Virtual Worlds and CybersecurityDoug Thompson
Federal agencies are increasingly looking to virtual world technologies as both an opportunity and a potential threat. In this of an episode of Metanomics, Drs. Paulette Robinson and Robert Young, leading figures in the adoption of the metaverse at all levels of government, discuss how government is using virtual world technologies, and examine issues around security.
Metanomics is a weekly broadcast examining the serious uses of virtual worlds. Join us at http://metanomics.net.
Information Sharing, Dot Connecting and Intelligence Failures.docxannettsparrow
Information Sharing, Dot Connecting and Intelligence Failures:
Revisiting Conventional Wisdom
By
Russell Travers
Deputy Director, Information Sharing and Knowledge Development
National Counterterrorism Center
This paper, written in August 2009, was submitted to the Director of National Intelligence
2009 Galileo Awards Program. The Galileo Awards Program is an annual Intelligence
Community-wide competition designed to encourage and recognize innovative workforce
ideas that address current challenges and help shape the future of U.S. Intelligence.
All statements of fact, opinion, or analysis expressed are those of the author and do not
reflect the official positions or views of the National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC) or
any other U.S. Government agency. Nothing in the contents should be construed as
implying U.S. Government or NCTC endorsement of the author’s views. This material has
been reviewed to prevent the disclosure of classified information.
The year is 2014. The Intelligence Community is ten years into its efforts to
implement the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act (IRTPA). While
change has been evident on many fronts, nothing was more closely identified with
intelligence reform than information sharing; ever since the 9/11 Commission
declared that “the biggest impediment to all-source analysis – to a greater
likelihood of connecting the dots – is the human or systemic resistance to sharing
information”1, the two had been inextricably linked. And while we were pushing
more electrons than ever before, dissatisfaction continued: in 2014, as in 2009,
no analyst in the IC had effective access to all information; analysts in many parts
of the Community complained that they couldn’t get operational traffic or law
enforcement information; we had little ability to do large scale processing of
foreign and domestic data sets; our non Federal partners were still dissatisfied
with the quality of information sharing. A dizzying array of directives had been
issued. Arbitration procedures had been established. And yet organizations
weren’t getting the information they claimed to “need.” Legitimate issues
coexisted with tripe. According to the critics, we still couldn’t connect those dots.
The reality, however, was far more complex: the only question was whether it
took a major intelligence failure to realize that fact.
This is the path we’re on. We will continue to hear claims that information sharing has
“barely improved since 9/11.” Such hyperbole is unmitigated nonsense. The robust sharing of
information between and among the key organizations has undoubtedly contributed to the fact
that we haven’t suffered a major attack. And by any objective standard, the level of sharing
1 The 9/11 Commission Report: Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United
States; U.S. Government Print.
speech delivered during height of US fiscal crisis (10/02/08) to the SustainCommWorld conference on data feeds and visualization as a means to improving management and achieving the "triple bottom line"
In November 2011 at the United Nations Headquarters in New York, the General Assembly was briefed on the progress of Global Pulse, a UN innovation initiative harnessing real-time data and new technologies ("Big Data") to protect vulnerable populations. This book is a record of that event and presents 1) emerging techniques in information technology that make Global Pulse possible, 2) preparatory work in Indonesia and Uganda for launch of the first Pulse Labs, 3) the results of five research projects to test concepts underlying the application of real-time data and global development and 4) the roadmap for UN Global Pulse
Data Activism: data as rhetoric, data as powerSpeck&Tech
ABSTRACT: Contrary to popular beliefs that depict data as truthful or objective, a data activist navigates the data-sphere from an opposite worldview: data is never neutral, and data visualization is inevitably rhetorical. But don’t worry: this is a feature, not a bug. This talk will focus on the many ways in which data can be used for activism, with a particular focus on data-inspired housing rights initiatives like Inside Airbnb and OCIO Venezia, and the works by the information design studio Sheldon.studio.
BIO: Alice Corona is a partner and data journalist at Sheldon.studio, Board Member at Inside Airbnb, and Data activist at OCIO Venezia.
Data Mining Online Audiences with D8A GroupJon Gosier
Using a combination of the data-analysis products available from D8A Group, we’ve been monitoring the unfolding events in real-time to illustrate the ways our technology platforms can be used by companies, PR firms, marketing agencies, political groups, celebrities, and NGOs to make data informed decisions in real-time crisis scenarios.
In this case study document, we analyze breaking news scenarios involving Chris Christie's Brigegate scandal, Kerry Washington's appearance at the Golden Globes, and the Knight Foundation who we weren't aware had any news events at the time, but we quickly became aware of two through the use of our software.
The primary purpose of using technologies like the D8A suite of analytic products is to monitor and capture real-time data for analysis and research. They are also predictive, helping to surface trends, patterns, and happenings before one might find out about them otherwise. D8A’s products work across multiple communication channels.
This is a pro-bono talk at Data Journalism Bootcamp in Bangkok, organized by DataLEADS and sponsored by UN Foundation, in Dec 2017. The audience is a group of Thailand-based journalists covering climate change. This talk is delivered in my personal capacity.
Data-driven journalism (GIJC, Geneva April 2010) #ddjMirko Lorenz
Can the analysis of data help investigative journalism? Could new workflows working with data create more substantial reporting and thus finance costly investigations? This talk tried to provide food for thought for these questions, not the final answers. Work ahead on this...
I delivered this shorter version of my Gov. Transformation Through Public Data presentation at the Personal Democracy Forum 2008 in June.
(watch in full screen mode to read the narration). While this version concentrates on government, IMHO the same tools are valid for corporations, with similar benefits, as part of an Enterprise 2.0 strategy.
Heavy, Messy, Misleading: why Big Data is a human problem, not a tech onePulsar
"Big data" has been around for a few years now but for every hundred people talking about it there’s probably only one actually doing it. As a result Big Data has become the preferred vehicle for inflated expectations and misguided strategy.
As always, the seed of the issue is in the expression itself. Big Data is not so much about a quality of the data or the tools to mine it, it’s about a new approach to product, policy or business strategy design. And that’s way harder and trickier to implement than any new technology stack.
In this talk we look at where Big Data is going, what are the real opportunities, limitations and dangers and what can we do to stop talking about it and start doing it today.
Networks, swarms and policy: what collective intelligence means for policy ma...Alberto Cottica
Policy makers are taking up network thinking; citizens are self-organizing in smart swarms displaying collectivley intelligent behaviour. I address the implications of these phenomena for policy making, and look at some tools being built by a project called CATALYST that might help both citizens and policy makers.
Metanomics: Federal Interest in Virtual Worlds and CybersecurityDoug Thompson
Federal agencies are increasingly looking to virtual world technologies as both an opportunity and a potential threat. In this of an episode of Metanomics, Drs. Paulette Robinson and Robert Young, leading figures in the adoption of the metaverse at all levels of government, discuss how government is using virtual world technologies, and examine issues around security.
Metanomics is a weekly broadcast examining the serious uses of virtual worlds. Join us at http://metanomics.net.
Information Sharing, Dot Connecting and Intelligence Failures.docxannettsparrow
Information Sharing, Dot Connecting and Intelligence Failures:
Revisiting Conventional Wisdom
By
Russell Travers
Deputy Director, Information Sharing and Knowledge Development
National Counterterrorism Center
This paper, written in August 2009, was submitted to the Director of National Intelligence
2009 Galileo Awards Program. The Galileo Awards Program is an annual Intelligence
Community-wide competition designed to encourage and recognize innovative workforce
ideas that address current challenges and help shape the future of U.S. Intelligence.
All statements of fact, opinion, or analysis expressed are those of the author and do not
reflect the official positions or views of the National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC) or
any other U.S. Government agency. Nothing in the contents should be construed as
implying U.S. Government or NCTC endorsement of the author’s views. This material has
been reviewed to prevent the disclosure of classified information.
The year is 2014. The Intelligence Community is ten years into its efforts to
implement the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act (IRTPA). While
change has been evident on many fronts, nothing was more closely identified with
intelligence reform than information sharing; ever since the 9/11 Commission
declared that “the biggest impediment to all-source analysis – to a greater
likelihood of connecting the dots – is the human or systemic resistance to sharing
information”1, the two had been inextricably linked. And while we were pushing
more electrons than ever before, dissatisfaction continued: in 2014, as in 2009,
no analyst in the IC had effective access to all information; analysts in many parts
of the Community complained that they couldn’t get operational traffic or law
enforcement information; we had little ability to do large scale processing of
foreign and domestic data sets; our non Federal partners were still dissatisfied
with the quality of information sharing. A dizzying array of directives had been
issued. Arbitration procedures had been established. And yet organizations
weren’t getting the information they claimed to “need.” Legitimate issues
coexisted with tripe. According to the critics, we still couldn’t connect those dots.
The reality, however, was far more complex: the only question was whether it
took a major intelligence failure to realize that fact.
This is the path we’re on. We will continue to hear claims that information sharing has
“barely improved since 9/11.” Such hyperbole is unmitigated nonsense. The robust sharing of
information between and among the key organizations has undoubtedly contributed to the fact
that we haven’t suffered a major attack. And by any objective standard, the level of sharing
1 The 9/11 Commission Report: Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United
States; U.S. Government Print.
speech delivered during height of US fiscal crisis (10/02/08) to the SustainCommWorld conference on data feeds and visualization as a means to improving management and achieving the "triple bottom line"
In November 2011 at the United Nations Headquarters in New York, the General Assembly was briefed on the progress of Global Pulse, a UN innovation initiative harnessing real-time data and new technologies ("Big Data") to protect vulnerable populations. This book is a record of that event and presents 1) emerging techniques in information technology that make Global Pulse possible, 2) preparatory work in Indonesia and Uganda for launch of the first Pulse Labs, 3) the results of five research projects to test concepts underlying the application of real-time data and global development and 4) the roadmap for UN Global Pulse
Data Activism: data as rhetoric, data as powerSpeck&Tech
ABSTRACT: Contrary to popular beliefs that depict data as truthful or objective, a data activist navigates the data-sphere from an opposite worldview: data is never neutral, and data visualization is inevitably rhetorical. But don’t worry: this is a feature, not a bug. This talk will focus on the many ways in which data can be used for activism, with a particular focus on data-inspired housing rights initiatives like Inside Airbnb and OCIO Venezia, and the works by the information design studio Sheldon.studio.
BIO: Alice Corona is a partner and data journalist at Sheldon.studio, Board Member at Inside Airbnb, and Data activist at OCIO Venezia.
Data Mining Online Audiences with D8A GroupJon Gosier
Using a combination of the data-analysis products available from D8A Group, we’ve been monitoring the unfolding events in real-time to illustrate the ways our technology platforms can be used by companies, PR firms, marketing agencies, political groups, celebrities, and NGOs to make data informed decisions in real-time crisis scenarios.
In this case study document, we analyze breaking news scenarios involving Chris Christie's Brigegate scandal, Kerry Washington's appearance at the Golden Globes, and the Knight Foundation who we weren't aware had any news events at the time, but we quickly became aware of two through the use of our software.
The primary purpose of using technologies like the D8A suite of analytic products is to monitor and capture real-time data for analysis and research. They are also predictive, helping to surface trends, patterns, and happenings before one might find out about them otherwise. D8A’s products work across multiple communication channels.
Similar to Data Journalism Training @ Southern Metropolis Daily, Guangdong, China (20)
This is a pro-bono talk at Data Journalism Bootcamp in Bangkok, organized by DataLEADS and sponsored by UN Foundation, in Dec 2017. The audience is a group of Thailand-based journalists covering climate change. This talk is delivered in my personal capacity.
Implementation of Digital Media - Workshop for UNDP - Environment & EnergyYolanda Ma Jinxin
This is the last session of the digital media workshops I delivered at United Nations Development Programme (Beijing Office), to its Environment and Energy Team.
Case Study of Digital Media - Workshop for UNDP - Environment & EnergyYolanda Ma Jinxin
This is the second session of the digital media workshops I delivered at United Nations Development Programme (Beijing Office), to its Environment and Energy Team.
Introduction to Digital Media - Workshop for UNDP - Environment & EnergyYolanda Ma Jinxin
This is the first session of the digital media workshops I delivered at United Nations Development Programme (Beijing Office), to its Environment and Energy Team.
An astonishing, first-of-its-kind, report by the NYT assessing damage in Ukraine. Even if the war ends tomorrow, in many places there will be nothing to go back to.
31052024_First India Newspaper Jaipur.pdfFIRST INDIA
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हम आग्रह करते हैं कि जो भी सत्ता में आए, वह संविधान का पालन करे, उसकी रक्षा करे और उसे बनाए रखे।" प्रस्ताव में कुल तीन प्रमुख हस्तक्षेप और उनके तंत्र भी प्रस्तुत किए गए। पहला हस्तक्षेप स्वतंत्र मीडिया को प्रोत्साहित करके, वास्तविकता पर आधारित काउंटर नैरेटिव का निर्माण करके और सत्तारूढ़ सरकार द्वारा नियोजित मनोवैज्ञानिक हेरफेर की रणनीति का मुकाबला करके लोगों द्वारा निर्धारित कथा को बनाए रखना और उस पर कार्यकरना था।
In a May 9, 2024 paper, Juri Opitz from the University of Zurich, along with Shira Wein and Nathan Schneider form Georgetown University, discussed the importance of linguistic expertise in natural language processing (NLP) in an era dominated by large language models (LLMs).
The authors explained that while machine translation (MT) previously relied heavily on linguists, the landscape has shifted. “Linguistics is no longer front and center in the way we build NLP systems,” they said. With the emergence of LLMs, which can generate fluent text without the need for specialized modules to handle grammar or semantic coherence, the need for linguistic expertise in NLP is being questioned.
‘वोटर्स विल मस्ट प्रीवेल’ (मतदाताओं को जीतना होगा) अभियान द्वारा जारी हेल्पलाइन नंबर, 4 जून को सुबह 7 बजे से दोपहर 12 बजे तक मतगणना प्रक्रिया में कहीं भी किसी भी तरह के उल्लंघन की रिपोर्ट करने के लिए खुला रहेगा।
03062024_First India Newspaper Jaipur.pdfFIRST INDIA
Find Latest India News and Breaking News these days from India on Politics, Business, Entertainment, Technology, Sports, Lifestyle and Coronavirus News in India and the world over that you can't miss. For real time update Visit our social media handle. Read First India NewsPaper in your morning replace. Visit First India.
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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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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