“镝数”—— A TOOL MAKES INTERECTIVE NEWS PRODUCTION EASIER

1. “镝数”——
A TOOL MAKES
INTERACTIVE
NEWS
PRODUCTION
EASIER
Adonia He
http://www.dydatas.com

2. What is 镝数?

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What is 镝数?
镝数 is a data-centric news writing
and sharing community. It is
developed by 武汉大学镝次元数据传媒
实验室, it is a new media lab which I
worked in, so I just feel proud to
introduce our 镝数 to all of you.
What is 镝数?

4. What makes 镝数 special?

5. What makes 镝数 special?
Interactive news and data news bring new possibilities to online
journalism, but also make news production more difficult.
How can I produce interactive data news without skills of coding or data
analyzing? Even after knowing this, how can I make the news production
process easier?
镝数 will help you!
镝数 strives to break down the technical barriers of interactive data news
production, enabling users to do most of the producing work on the
same platform in easy way.

6. So，
what can I do with 镝数?

7. READ and SHARE
READ the latest and most
comprehensive interactive data
news stories and get related
information, then SHARE yours.
CREATE
Quickly CREATE your
own interactive news
charts.
SEARCH and GET
Quickly SEARCH and
GET clean and tidy
data.
INTEGRATE
INTEGRATE the work
processes of data news story
writing, data analyzing and
data presentation in the same
platform.
what can I do with 镝数?

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All the stories and materials are categorized in
three ways, you can search by any one.

9. CREATE
Firstly, you can find different
graphs to meet your needs by
adding different search
criterias.
Secondly, You can use
the template directly by
editing the data.

10. SEARCH and GET
All the stories and materials are categorized in
three ways, you can search by any one.
Firstly, search the data you
need by different ways of
sorting
Secondly, you can get
the data you need and
download it from Data
Sources

11. INTEGRATE
In this sectin, you can
produce your own
interactive data news stories
in one platform.
You can write, in the
meanwhile, add multimedia
content :
like forms, interactive charts,
pictures, videos, links, code
blocks in your stories.

12. Can I use 镝数 on
my phone?

13. Can I use 镝数 on my phone?
Of course, 镝数 has the version
which can be adapted to the
phone screens. You can READ
on your phone.
However, I do not recommend
you to produce your
interactive data news stories
on your phone. A phone
screen maybe too small to
show your ideas and stories.

14. Some of my thoughts.

15. Some of my thoughts.
Why this kind of tools is very important to journalists?
Of course, it makes online news producing process easier, saves time and resources.
But what is more important is that it gives journalists a chance to regain the initiative.
Technology brings opportunities as well as challenges to online journalism and journalists. Last
year we made a survey to understand the current state of the data news industry in mainland
China. I was most impressed by the fact that more and more media managers think programmers
is more important than journalists in producing interactive news. To them, compared with training
a journalist to coding, it is easier to train a programmer to write news.
This situation maybe changed by this kind of tools. Of course, if you really want to be competitive,
you need to learn different skills, but this tool at least can help you to enter this area and stand on
a similar starting line, then you will have chance to think about questions like :
How to make journalists irreplaceable?

16. Some of my thoughts.
How to make journalists irreplaceable?
Compared with programmers and data analysts, what is our professional strength?
I believe it is the ability to TELL STORIES (but not only write news). From traditional news to
online news, it is the changeless soul of news production, helping to make journalists this
indentity valuable.
And tools like 镝数 will also help from this perspective. It can help journalists get rid of the
dependence on programmers and designers, tell news stories in more independent and
efficient way. It means that journalists can maximize time value, return to the data itself and
concentrate on digging the story, which, maybe the secret for producing quality online
interactive data news content.

17. Something need to be
emphasized !

18. Something need to be emphasized !
This 镝数 is only a beta version, the formal edition will be
launched in November. And the numbers of columnists,
cooperative data sources and chart templates are still increasing.
The URL of the formal edition may change. If you are interested
in 镝数, please follow our WeChat public number : dyclub-org
and pay attention to our latest news.
SUPER WELCOME to send us your comments and suggestions.
And feel free to contact me if you have any other questions or
need!

19. THANKS!
http://www.dydatas.com