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Hong Kong

• Pitch and report thoughtful, accurate and timely stories where data analysis can drive reporting• Creatively source data, by scraping, merging, developing sources, manual collection or other methods• Handle tricky data, including data that is large, unstructured, error-prone, or difficult to access or interpret• Partner with reporters to acquire, clean and analyze data for larger newsroom projects• Work with the graphics team to explore and prepare data for maps, charts and other projects• Assist with code review and methodology checks on other data journalist’s work

Hong Kong Sar

• Work with beat reporters to cover Asian financial market and business and find scoops through data sourcing, analysis and visualisation• Build and maintain financial datasets for long term reporting on Chinese real estate developers’ corporate bond default crisis, big banks’ hiring activities in Hong Kong, and China’s trade relationship with the western countries• Collaborate with other FT journalists across time zones on data-led stories

Taipei City, Taiwan

Singapore

• Led newspaper’s 175 anniversary project on reviewing Singapore’s history through 175 years’ worth of the Straits Times’ news content. Collected and cleaned 47,000 unstructured headline stories from daily papers published between 1845 and 2021 and extracted trending topics using NLP methods• Worked with other graphics designers for interactive graphics presenting the findings. The project won the Silver Award in WAN-IFRA Asian Digital Media Awards

Taipei City, Taiwan

• Worked with beat reporters to cover Taiwanese financial market and business and provided scoops through data sourcing, analysis and visualisation• Led award-winning investigations into offshore tax evasion by billionaire families in Asia (Offshore Leaks’ Taiwanese partner), housing bubble in Taiwan, and dis/misinformation in 2018 Local Election• Wrote data stories for a biweekly column covering key economic issues in Taiwan• Built interactive maps showing election results using D3 and other JavaScript libraries

Hong Kong Sar

• Managed the digital content of the data journalism focused website “Initium Lab”• Conducted data-led investigations on property markets in Hong Kong and Taipei• Trained five interns to produce data-driven stories with R

Taipei City, Taiwan

• Used data analytical techniques to find and tell stories covering politics and business in Taiwan and Asia Pacific

New Taipei City, Taiwan

• Wrote stories on international financial market and business for the daily edition• Monitored international financial markets and wrote breaking news articles within time constraints

Master Of Science - Ms, Applied Social Data Science, Distinction

• Modules: Applied Machine Learning, Quantitative Text Analysis, Applied Regression Analysis, Social Science Research Design, Computer.

Bachelor'S Degree, Economics