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Reflection  

The overall topic was around the global semi-conductor/chip shortage that had started practically at the beginning of the pandemic. The goal of my data journalism project was to inform people on some of the key factors behind the event. This mainly being that the demand for the parts was slightly higher than usual and the country that produced the most semi-conductors had some internal problems. As we can see in the second graph (line graph), semi-conductors and their production affect many things in our modern world. One of them being cars/car production. We can see how their production dipped from the start of the pandemic in 2020 but has steadily been rising since. When I first chose the tool, “Data journalism”, I thought I would have just had to have written a small composition of data taken from multiple sources; however, I have found that making an infographic turned out to be highly effective and fun in comparison. Furthermore, beforehand, I had not even really known what an infographic was period. This tool has really shown me the different side of gathering and illustrating information, and how, through many different strategies, one can easily manipulate information and others’ minds along with it. It truly proved to be quite the interesting project.  

Summarizing Sources: Table Tennis

Firstly, the game is played as a 1 vs 1 or 2 vs 2 game where players are on opposite sides of a 9ft by 5ft table, nets splitting the tables in half across the middle of the table in longitude, their main goals being to receive or hit the table tennis ball until the ball either bounces over the net off the opponent’s side and goes out, or when the opponent hits the ball out of the court. Then they talk about the history of sport, describing how it is said that it was created in England during the 1880s, and it became an official Olympic sport in Moscow 1980. The first source stated that though it was created in the United States, it became more of a competitive sport in some eastern parts of Europe and Asia. I also learned that the two big federations/groups that made tennis an international competitive sport were the International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF) which was founded in 1926 in Berlin, and the United States Table Tennis Association (USTTA), created in 1933 for oversees tournament play in the United States. The yearly national championships feature over 45 distinct divisions, including men’s singles and doubles, women’s singles and doubles, junior and senior competitions, and competitors ranging in age from 10 to 75. In 1933, the USTTA became a member of the ITTF. I’m fascinated by the sport mainly because of the fact that I wanted to beat my dad in one game… He’s still better than me.  (;

1.  This is an article that I found online, and I am going to see if it is true or false.

This is the hyperlink to the document 

2.  I spent some time looking at previous articles written by the source and found that their past articles were mostly accurate. If they were subjective, they were labeled as such. Not only this, but I also looked at different articles on the same subject and found them all to be extremely similar.

OPINION labeled above the first document, the others being based off fact.

Cable News Network or CNN writes on the same topic, and is quite the credible source.

3. I did a search on Wikipedia on the news channel, “AlJazeera” and found that it is a Qatari-funded government international news channel based in the capital of Qatar, and that the media conglomerate Al Jazeera Media Network operates it. It is considered by some to be a propaganda channel of the Qatari-government because of it’s Islamic biases; however, outside of the Middle East “AlJazeera” seems to be credible and not told in the perspective of a biased group of people. Therefore, I have decided to proclaim the site, as of step 3, accurate.

Here is a link to the page (could not get a good quality screenshot)

4. Considering the fact that the articles was published a few days ago, I was unable to find anything on the article using the fact checker provided; however, once again I looked at different credible sites to determine whether or not the information on “AlJazeera” was similar to those of the credible ones. Once again turned about to be in fact similar.

Article is credible as the writer states all that is necessary for credible work.

5.  Through looking at all the published sources, including that of CNN, (the biggest news channel that I could find that published an article on the topic) it is safe to assume that this article is in fact true. (This is an assumption because it has only been 3 days since the article has been published and not a lot of information has been released on it besides sister sources/websites)

Here is another source and link