Data news solution

Data journalism is an interdisciplinary subject, and its appearance challenges traditional journalists. Traditional news creation concepts and methods require journalists to have basic professional skills such as writing, editing and commenting, but they cannot meet the needs of data news creation in the era of big data. Therefore, current journalists should have the following media literacy:

A. proficient in using computer skills. In today's era of information explosion, the status of the Internet cannot be ignored. Internet era, especially social network, e-commerce and mobile communication, has brought human society into a new era of structured and unstructured data information with "Pb" (1024 TB) as the unit. A large amount of data and information are placed in front of reporters. Traditional computers can't handle a large number of irregular data, so they need cloud computing for analysis, processing and statistics. Therefore, in order to deal with a large amount of data and information, today's journalists need to use computers skillfully.

B. ability to analyze and process data. Data news is different from traditional text news. Data news needs a lot of data. Journalists can find and ask questions through data, or collect relevant data after they have questions. With a large amount of data, we must analyze it, filter out unnecessary or irrelevant data, and leave valuable data for analysis and integration for news editors to use. Deloitte's R&D innovation team in Washington, D.C. recruits data reporters, and the most important requirement is the ability to analyze data. Therefore, data reporters must have strong data analysis and processing ability to be competent for this job.

C. visual graphic design ability. The visual expression of data news has injected a fresh blood into the news industry and made data news full of hope and vitality. The visual picture of data news links different time and space, simplifies complex data, makes it easier for the audience to understand, helps the audience to participate in it and meet the needs of different audiences. Visualization of data news is one of its major characteristics, so journalists should master visualization technology, learn to read and draw maps, and make various forms.