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当一个data scientist是种什么体验

14 Thursday Jan 2016

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这篇文章是参加一个分享数据科学活动后的总结和感悟，感谢data scientist – Hu Pili的总结和分享。

活动简介：本次的Symbols & Keys，组织者Mart邀请到了在Facebook London office工作的Hong Chun Leung，前来分享「当一个data scientist是种什么体验」。Hong Chun在去Facebook前曾在UCL攻读Machine Learning专业，也在King（制作Candy Crush的公司）工作过，在数据科学方面有不少实战经验。

Hong Chun Leung 对于问题 “What do data scientists do?” 直接给出答案：“Drive impact, strategy through data.” 并对这个答案解释如下：“A data scientist should know ‘How users are using your product?’, which means a data scientist should 1) understand the product; 2) do experimentation (very very important); 3) build data structure”。 Continue reading →

Pushing the Limits with Technology-Inaugural Colloquium

18 Friday Dec 2015

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December, 16th, Wednesday, 2015

Founded by Dr. Roselyn Du at Hong Kong Baptist University, the Data & News Society kicked off its inaugural colloquium on Dec.16 (Wed), 2015. Attendees included some of its members (teachers from Dept. of Computer Science, Math & CHTL and Ph.D students), as well as general public interested in the subject. Since the very start of its establishment, the Society has been well recognized and supported by a wide array of academic and professional resources. Prof. Huang Yu, Dean of the School of Communication and Dr. Alice Lee, head of Department of Journalism showed their generous support by giving opening remarks at the colloquium.

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The Blossoming World of Data Visualisation

27 Friday Nov 2015

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When “Data” and “News” get married, they have a lot of babies who have different characteristics, which means “Data Journalism Family” inevitably involves many fields about “Data Science“.

Yesterday I came to a meetup held in WanChai about data visualisation (one of the family’s child in data journalism). The speaker is Mart, and here is his Bio from Trello: Continue reading →