It's a project I did this summer at HKU's Journalism and Media Studies Center. It was just months ahead of China’s biggest political gathering - 18th national congress of the Communist Party of China (CCP) at Beidaihe. How it selects its top leaders seems mysterious to many but is, as always, thoroughly intriguing. The data-mining results cast doubts on some myths about China’s politics and backed up some unspoken beliefs. What’s more, the statistical findings reveal some connectionsbetween some key historical events.
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Phinch is an open-source framework for visualizing biological data, funded by a grant from the Alfred P. Sloan foundation. This project represents an interdisciplinary collaboration between Pitch Interactive, a data visualization studio in Berkeley, CA, and biological researchers at UC Davis.
This is a project created for The Wall Street Journal. After seeing projects that mapped the workout routes of residents in cities across Europe and the U.S., I felt like doing one for the cities in Asia. Down Jones & Company owns the copyright and reserves other rights.
A Magic Grant project sponsored by the Brown Institue for Media Innovation at Columbia and Stanford University. We are building a system to track the censorship and inappropriate journalistic practice post-publication. We started this project because we want to better inform the readers and involve the public in monitoring online publications, to keep journalism accountable.
A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step, but starting this week we can march a thousand days forward into a new future. On June 5th, the world will reach a vital moment in history's largest and most successful anti-poverty push -- the 1,000-day mark before the target date to achieve the Millennium Development Goals. The project aims to tell the MDGs story from a more data-driven perspective.