If you are passionate for writing, data and design and take initiative to devise original and imaginative ways to tell visual stories, you may the one we are looking for. You would be expected to work closely with marketing executive on a daily basis.
Web Developer
Role Description
Come up with data visualisation design through interactive infographics
Carry out investigative journalism/research with journalists using data, including conducting interviews and finding/verifying data sources
Demonstrate editorial judgement, creativity and flair
To produce interesting and innovative visual stories
Use various statistics and data science tools for data parsing, scraping and wrangling
Manage workflow and process for data-driven stories in the newsroom
Use analytics to evaluate stories and propose changes to workflow, concepts
Requirements
- Prior experience in a data visualization role and/or web development
- Strong analytical and critical thinking skills
- Familiar with the latest digital storytelling trends
- Familiar with the common data APIs, facebook graph API, google API
- Bachelor’s degree in data science, mathematics, statistics, computer science strongly preferred
- Experienced with one or more common databases, SQL, scripting languages (R, Python, Perl)
- Working knowledge of interactive data storytelling/visualization tools (Tableau, Microsoft Excel) and web infrastructure (JavaScript frameworks, including jQuery) an advantage
- Experience in writing for financial (including internship) is an advantage