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)
Mindy Zhao Minzhu
Hong Kong Baptist University
Hong Kong
(+852)5483-6502
18251846@life.hkbu.edu.hk
Bachelor of Communication (Hons.) in Journalism Data and Media Communication Concentration• 2018 - 2022
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
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.
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
Student Research Assistant • Dec 2021 - Present
Supervisor: Dr. Yucheng Jin
Study how intergenerational service-learning project impact human-computer interaction education using qualitative analysis
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.
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.
As a data journalism student, I have some experience on data journalism. Some projects are as followed.
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.
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
The final group project for JOUR2106 Data Visulazation , focusing on autism students in Hong Kong.
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"