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With Professor Jeff SouthXiamen University | Summer 2016

Online research

Data analysis

Data visualization

Better, smarter, faster reportersFind exclusive storiesUncover the truthWin journalism awards

Data-driven journalism is the future. Journalists need to be data-savvy.

Berners-Lee

2 of my students won a national award last year.

They used data analysis to show that a judge was bad and unfair.

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‘Open Data’ and ‘Big Data’

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About me (and you)Syllabus & websiteOnline searchingAssignments We’ll take a

break here.

American journalist & professor Virginia Commonwealth University(near Washington, D.C.) Taught at NENU in Changchun (2014), Xiamen University and Fudan (2015) Trained journalists in Vietnam This summer: Hong Kong Baptist Univ.,Xiamen University and Fudan (again)

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