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Data Analytics Practice Opportunity 2021/22

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    • Data Analytics Practice Opportunity

    Data Analytics Practice Opportunity

    Organizing Party: Research Support and Digital Initiatives, CUHK Library

    Introduction

    Data Analytics Practice Opportunity organised by the Chinese University of Hong Kong Library, aims to:

    1. encourage reuse of data
    2. support the exploration of data and metadata from library collections
    3. promote data mining and visualization
    4. provide students with opportunities to develop data analytics projects with real data
    5. encourage inter-disciplinary exploration

    Details

    Participants will develop codes to analyse data and tell stories with the CUHK Library resources. If possible, the codes should be adaptive to other datasets in the future. The codes will be installed to our Digital Scholarship Tools platform (http://dstools.lib.cuhk.edu.hk) at the end of the Practice Opportunity. A project webpage and poster about the project will be created. Participants will also present the project at a sharing session.

    Students participating in the Practice Opportunity will develop:

    1. codes
    2. project webpage
    3. project poster
    4. presentation of the project

    See Project Outcomes

    Resources

    1. Data in the CUHK Digital Repository
    2. Metadata in the CUHK Library Archival Collections
    3. Data in the CUHK Research Data Repository

    Sample data:

    Name of collection/dataSample research questions
    1. Biographical Relationship of Literati in Hong Kong Literature and Hong Kong PoetsThe interpersonal relationship among literati in Hong Kong Literature with stylometry analysis
    2. The Hongkong NewsStorytelling on Hong Kong between 1942 and 1945 using intertextuality detection algorithm
    3. 七十年代、 九十年代Tracing the patterns of social life from 1970s to 1990s in Hong Kong using topic modeling
    4. Cantonese Chanting in Hong KongExploring the pitch-text relationship in poems using natural language processing
    5. 走馬樓三國吳簡．嘉禾吏民田家莂資料庫Reviewing the economic development in the Three Kingdoms of Eastern Han Dynasty using digital ethnography
    6. Metadata from the CUHK Library Archival CollectionsInteraction between collections in the subject: Chinese literature – China – Hong Kong using network analysis
    7. The Chinese Student Weekly (中國學生周報)OCR error recognition using N-gram and name-entity recognition
    8. Scientific data available on CUHK Research Data RepositoryExploration of characteristics in Millipede genomes
    9. Medicine- and health-related data available on CUHK Research Data RepositoryAcceptance of vaccine and containment measures in Hong Kong during the COVID-19 period

    Sample project webpages

    https://dsprojects.lib.cuhk.edu.hk/projects/#DA

    Eligibility

    All full-time undergraduate and postgraduate* students at CUHK
    Number of members in each team: 1–3
    Number of successful team to participate in the Practice Opportunity: 3

    * Postgraduate students under Postgraduate Studentship have to seek approval from your own department when you are given an offer.

    Selection criteria

    1. Knowledge on data analytics
    2. Sound skills and experience to develop codes
    3. Subject knowledge
    4. Ideas on reusing library resources to develop a project

    Salary

    Estimated HKD5000 per team

    Application process

    Complete the application form at https://cloud.itsc.cuhk.edu.hk/webform/view.php?id=13637956 (Library Job Application Reference: SH20211224RS) and upload the following documents:

    1. CV
    2. Copy of transcripts
    3. 100-word statement of purpose (for the team*)

    *For team application, each team member has to submit the online application form separately. Please state under “supplementary information” the name(s) of your teammate.

    Timeline

    24 Dec 2021–17 Jan 2022Application Period
    21/24 Jan 2022Interview of candidates
    26 Jan 2022Announcement of successful applicants
    28 Jan 2022Briefing session
    February 2022–May 2022Development of projects
    May 2022Completion of projects, codes, website, and poster
    TBCPresentation of projects

    Project Outcomes in Data Analytics Practice Opportunity 2021/22

    Projects Completed:

    Presentation Recording

    Intellectual Property

    According to the University policy, participants are required to assign to the University the intellectual property of the project outcome. Participants are authorised to use the original source files provided by the organiser only for the Data Analytics Practice Opportunity. They are not allowed to use them for other purposes without the authorisation of the organiser.

    Participants must ensure that the codes developed and project output in the Data Analytics Practice Opportunity are original by the participants or legally authorized by the owner of the intellectual property rights. If any third party raises allegations of infringement of intellectual property rights or the legal irregularities, the participants assume all legal responsibility.

    Enquiries

    For any enquiries, please email the organizer at data@cuhk.edu.hk.