The Lab has cohosted the 3rd Data Journalism Competition in China

The Lab has cohosted the 3rd Data Journalism Competition in China

Co-hosted by a dozen online media and universities including Web Mining Lab at City University of Hong Kong, the 2017 Data Journalism Competition is open for public entries from May 1 to Aug 15, 2017. Students of undergraduate and post-graduate programs around the world can form teams to participate (registered here). There are two categories of competition, including Data News Reports or Data Research Report.

The organizers of the Competition provide all teams a series of real world data on geolocation, weather, housing price, healthcare cost, and movie box office records, to facilitate the design and production of news/research reports.

The top 10 entries will be awarded as follows:

Award	N of Awards	Cash per Award (RMB)
Grand Award	1	20,000
Data News Award 1st Class	1	7,000
Data News Award 2nd Class	2	5,000
Data News Award 3rd Class	3	3,000
Data Research Award	3	2,000

The results of the Competition will be announced at the Conclusion Ceremony at Wuhan University in Nov 2017.