About Me

4th-year journalism student at Hong Kong Baptist University, interested in data visualization, computational communication and social computing

Skills: Writing, Tableau, Some data visualization tools, Python, Java(Basic), HTML/ CSS/ JavaScript(Basic)

Languages: English (Fluent), Mandarin (Native), Cantonese(Intermediate)

Contact Details

Mindy Zhao Minzhu
Hong Kong Baptist University
Hong Kong

(+852)5483-6502
18251846@life.hkbu.edu.hk

Education

Hong Kong Baptist University

Bachelor of Communication (Hons.) in Journalism Data and Media Communication Concentration 2018 - 2022

Work

Financial Times Chinese

Intern, Data Journalist May 2020 - Dec 2020

Help produce data journalism pieces for FT Chinese websites. Collect data and turn it into compelling stories. Help write weekly issues for FTChinese.com data journalism column, which are issues to roundup the global fiancial through related to data and cart. My projects can refer here

ECON7910 Data Visualization with Story-telling | Hong Kong Baptist University

Teaching Assistant January 2020 - May 2020 | January 2021 - May 2021

Supervisor: Mr. HU, Pili

Worked as the teaching assistant of the postgraduate course ECON7910 “Data Visualization with Story-telling” course which used Tableau and Tableau Prep. Helped preparation, troubleshooting, and problem-solving.

Research

Cantonese Fake News Detection on Social Media

Student Research Assistant Dec 2020 - Mar 2021 & Jun 2021 – Present

Supervisor: Dr. Lan Liang

Coding and codebook improvement, explore and analyze Cantonese fake news dataset using natural language skills such as Latent Dirichlet allocation model, build Cantonese fake news detector using machine learning, and help visualize the attention map of fake news detector

Human-computer interaction education Project

Student Research Assistant Dec 2021 - Present

Supervisor: Dr. Yucheng Jin

Study how intergenerational service-learning project impact human-computer interaction education using qualitative analysis

STEM Education in Hong Kong

Student Research Assistant Jun 2021 - Sep 2021

Supervisor: Dr. LAI, Jean Hok Yin

Help conduct research on STEM education in Hong Kong, including conducting literature review and schedule designs, and help write the proposal for a STEM visual learning research, etc.

Online Research Program on Face Mask Detection

May 2021 - Sep 2021

Thoroughly probe into the model based on face mask datasets, improve AI’s detection accuracy on face mask and other small objects, etc.

Projects

As a data journalism student, I have some experience on data journalism. Some projects are as followed.

Burnout in Dachang - ex-interns' POVs on the Chinese Big Techs

The final group project for JOUR4046 Integrated Data-driven Storytelling, interviewing ex-interns who have worked in "Dachang", China’s most well-known tech giants, including ByteDance, Alibaba, Tencent, Pinduoduo, NetEase, etc.

The Dark Line Behind Live Pet Trading

An group investigation journalism project for course JOUR3155 Investigative Reporting for Data and Media Communication, investigating the dark line behind live pet trading in Chinese e-commerce

Autism Students in Hong Kong

The final group project for JOUR2106 Data Visulazation , focusing on autism students in Hong Kong.

P words- Weekly Issue

Helped to write a weekly column for P words (a Public Wechat Account, Chinese name: P话) for around one year and published more than 30 articles in total. The project is a weekly issue to roundup industrial news, tools, datasets related to data.

Some projects: "高考选专业:一件怎么做都会后悔的事情", "数据周报之美国大选", "数据周报之美国大规模抗议事件", "套路集锦: 新冠疫情可视化"

  • If obstacles are larger, jump higher.

    Steve Backley
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    Ruth Bader Ginsburg