Type of Credit: Elective
Credit(s)
Number of Students
Students who attempt to take this course should read the course description and policies carefully and complete the registration form before 23 August. I will email the acceptance letter and the online coding training information to matriculated students on 26 August.
In order to produce high-quality data journalism for the Taiwanese presential election on January 13th, 2024, the ICI, the CommonWealth Magazine (one of the leading economic and political magazines in Taiwan), Taiwan FactCheck Center, and the Election Study Center will open this practice course in ICI this Fall. This course is an intensive and inter-disciplinary practice course designed to train students as professional data scientists and journalists. Another objective of this course is to publish students’ edited works on CommonWealth’s website (https://english.cw.com.tw/).
能力項目說明
In order to meet the requirements of professional and inter-disciplinary data journalism, this course recruits students who possess coding skills and social science knowledge. The course is exclusive to students who have taken one of ICI’s two programming courses. (i.e., Data Science and Big Data for Social Analysis) Students have a better chance of being selected if students took the following three ICI courses: Political Science, Modern History of Taiwan, and/or Public International Law. If you have not completed the above required modules, please provide a CV, previous works, or a course list and write a personal statement in the registration form to demonstrate that you meet the professional requirements for this course.
This capstone course will consist of two sections: the preliminary and practice sessions. First, during the preliminary section, there will be online coding skills training at the end of August. Students will have several online R programming courses. On September 14th, 21st, 23th, and 28th, the ICI, CommonWealth, Taiwan FactCheck Center, and Election Study Center will hold an 18-hour workshop to allow students to garner a more systematic understanding of Taiwan elections, domestic and international politics, and election coding skills. During the practice section, students will be required to follow specific guidelines of the ICI, CommonWealth, Taiwan FactCheck Center, and Election Study Center to develop data journalism projects and publish data journalism articles/reports on CommonWealth’s website in the next January.
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Course Prerequisites and Policies:
Course Schedule:
Section 1: Preliminary
08/26 – 09/11: Online coding skill training
Meeting 1: 09/14 Workshop 1
Introduction of the capstone course (Chung-pei Pien)
Meeting 2: 09/21 Workshop 2
Meeting 3-4: 09/23 Workshop 3-4
Meeting 5: 09/28 Workshop 5
Section 2: Practice
Meeting 6: 10/5
Prepare Project Proposal (Chung-pei Pien)
Meeting 7: 10/12
Project Proposal Presentation (Chung-pei Pien)
Meeting 8: 10/19
Project progress report (Chung-pei Pien)
Meeting 9: 10/26
Project progress report (Chung-pei Pien)
Meeting 10: 11/2
Project progress report (Chung-pei Pien)
Meeting 11: 11/9
Project progress report (Chung-pei Pien)
Meeting 12: 11/16
Project progress report (Chung-pei Pien)
Meeting 13: 11/23
Project progress report (Chung-pei Pien)
Meeting 14: 11/30
Project progress report (Chung-pei Pien)
Meeting 15: 12/7
Present the 1st version (Chung-pei Pien)
Meeting 16: 12/14
Project progress report (Chung-pei Pien)
Meeting 17: 12/21
Present the 2nd version (Chung-pei Pien)
Meeting 18: 12/28 Rehearal
Meeting 19: 1/4
Present the 3rd version (Chung-pei Pien)
Meeting 20: 1/11 Final Check
Project final check (Chung-pei Pien)
Meeting 21-22: 11/13 16:00-23:00
Election day (Chung-pei Pien)
Final Paper: 1/13-15
This course is based on a total of 2,750 points. Grades will be determined based on your performance in the following areas:
Item |
Points |
% |
Online Coding Training |
500 |
18% |
Attendance (18 x 50) |
900 |
33% |
Weekly Report (7 x 50) |
350 |
13% |
Project Proposal |
200 |
7% |
Rehearsal |
100 |
4% |
Final Check |
200 |
7% |
Final Paper |
500 |
18% |
Total |
2750 |
100% |