On November 6, the finals of the 6th China Data Journalism Competition and the Data-Driven Journalism and Communication Innovation Forum were held online. Two pieces of work by students at our college --- The Realm of Child Marriage: The Neglected Facts of Global Child Marriage and The Collision of Drug and Independence: Uncovering the Elderly Drug Users' --- won the first and third prizes respectively.
The Realm of Child Marriage: The Neglected Facts of Global Child Marriage won the first prize and the best data-driven award. Students on the team include Lin Xinming, Chen Yuening, Huang Xiaojing, Li Wanyi from our college, and Cao Youjin from College of Molecular Science and Engineering. This work mainly reveals that an underage child is forced to marry every 2 seconds in the world, more than 1 in 5 girls in the world are married before the age of 18, and 1 in 5 boys in the Central African Republic is a victim of child marriage and other global child marriage facts. After verifying and sorting out child marriage data from more than 200 countries, the data correlation analysis was conducted on the child marriage rate and regional economic level, education level, urban-rural differences and other dimensions. Perspectives: Geography, Gender, Education, Law, Epidemic.
The main data visualization tools used in this work include Tableau, web front-end development tools, JS-based Echarts, Python, Photoshop, Adobe illustrator, etc.; using echarts internal components, writing native JavaScript code, based on the map open protocol, making global child marriage rates Smart map. This work also adds iframe window games developed in the javaScript language to enhance the interactivity and immersion of the work.
The Collision of Drug and Independence: Uncovering the Elderly Drug Users' won the third prize, completed by students of our college --- Cai Tiantian, Ding Siqi, Liu Yu, Wan Ziqi, and Gu Xiangfeng. With the long-term development of anti-drug work in my country, the total number of drug addicts is gradually declining, but the number of elderly drug addicts has not decreased but increased. Behind the growth of data is the loss of life of the entire elderly group in their later years. Driven by data, this work shows the social causes behind the elderly drug addicts and the urgent problems to be solved in advancing related work. This work calls on the society to pay more attention to the elderly drug addicts, strengthen the popularization of anti-drug education knowledge for the elderly, and take effective countermeasures to prevent the elderly from becoming an island in society. On the road to drug control, no group should be ignored.
The China Data Journalism Competition is widely recognized by the domestic news and communication circles and the industry. This competition has attracted more than 900 teams from well-known universities and media organizations at home and abroad, with more than 4,500 applicants. In the end, a total of 11 works won the first prize, 20 works won the second prize, and 30 works won the third prize. Since participating in the China Data Journalism Contest, the students of our college have achieved great results. There are 2 first prizes and 1 excellence award, which fully demonstrates the remarkable achievements made by the college in the training of data journalism talents.
