Presentation Of Information Visualization In The Age Of Big Data: Data Journalism Research

Along with the advent of the age of big data, data has become an importantproduction factor and thus infiltrated into all professions and trades. Media convergenceand Internet information disclosure provides a new opportunity for data journalismdevelopment. In communication field, data journalism is considered to be aninterdisciplinary mode of news production rising in the age of big data. Such a form ofnews, developed from precision journalism, has changed the production flow of news tosome extent and accelerated the role transition of news industry.With the use of such methods as literature research method and case study, etc.,this paper researches the production mode of data journalism different from that oftraditional news in network era: data acquisition, data understanding and datavisualization. This paper will focus on discussing how newsroom analyzes and presentsdata, and will use data to mine the deep-seated social reality. Different from text-basedtraditional report, data journalism helps the public to understand the news events thatare happening and the impact of these events on people‘s living by mining anddisplaying the relevance and pattern behind the data and by using rich and interactivevisualization methods. The rising programmers and journalists use data map andinteractive chart, etc. to orderly unfold the complicated contents before the audiences, toexplore the correlation and meaning behind the data.Researches find that such predicaments as the disclosure of data privacy and thepolicy barrier for data opening, etc. are restricting the development of China‘sjournalism news. In China, the development of data journalism is still in its infancy. Theinteractivity and diversification of the data journalism works displayed in the media ispartly different from the western media, so there are development spaces for both reportcontent and form.