The general trend of data news releases the power of visual reporting ----- essays after reading

I participated in many data visualization projects before , The most important is the real-time data presentation of sports competitions , It seems to have something to do with data news . After my friend introduced this book , It feels great , I took time to read it during the Spring Festival .

After reading this book, I found that data news has been used as news coverage for so long , It can even become a school of its own .

There is such a case analysis in the book , It is reported that 2011 London riots , Different from traditional text or video reports , It uses a lot of map based data analysis , Used to objectively show the situation of riots in each region ; There are also disturbance logs based on the timeline ; Comparison chart of the sources of people involved in the riots, etc , It looks clearer and easier to understand than the written report . They spent a lot of time asking for relevant information from the court and the police station , At the same time, there are also visits to the affected areas , Then sort out these materials and find the appropriate form for the results （ All kinds of charts are really good ）.

These data reports have no obvious conclusions , Just coldly presented the readers with various data of London riots , But every chart , Each legend seems to have an invisible director to guide you to understand , understand .

There is such a bar chart in the report on the riots in London , It lists the charges charged by the rioters afterwards and the corresponding average prison term , The facts are very clear , But contrast 2010 Years of imprisonment for the same offence ,2011 Of the rioters received a longer sentence 1/4.

Why let readers know this 1/4？

There is also an Olympic case about women 400 The final of the M individual medley , Ye Shiwen won the championship , At this time, you can see whether the time has broken the Olympic record or the world record , But data editing mining to a point , Ye Shiwen finally 50 The sprint only used 28 second 93, It's faster than the champion of the men's team in this project 0.17 second , This is statistically very rare .
Why let readers know this 0.17 second ？

If I answer the above two why ？ I want to say , You can report the facts directly , You can also further mine the hidden points behind the data , Make your report more “ deep ” once .

Some of the reports about the London riots were made after the riots , After all, it's not like there are official real-time data of sports competitions , Many of them are collected and sorted manually , In time 、 accuracy , This is also the difficulty of using data news in breaking news ,

Suddenly I feel that what I did before is too direct , Unlike the above data news, there are data news editors to inject deep vitality into it .

Take the hottest sports event in China NBA Come on , In the live broadcast of the game, we often see, for example, personal technical statistics （ Personal records , League record ）, Historical data analysis and other data application scenarios . Most of these packages are provided by official signals , Tencent will also provide some data presentation according to its own program needs , Tencent also has official real-time data , The quantity and timeliness of use are much worse than the official .

Deeper words , Can you write a number NBA The program , Talk about a week's game with data , Note that it's not just the game data , It also includes the data of interaction between stars and audiences on social media , Microblogging NBA Data on related topics , As for the purpose of this program ？ I think we can let students who have time to watch the game have fun with hot topics , It can also be used to predict the result of next week's competition more accurately , Ha ha ha .

Stop chatting here , You can read this book when you are free .