Visualizing Singapore, one dataset at a time

Synopsis of talk:
About 75% of our Singapore government budget goes to 5 ministries. Do you know what these are?

In a world deluged by data, it can sometimes be hard to make sense of all of it. When it comes to publicly available data, if we could understand it better, it will be useful in helping citizens make more informed choices, and the way we create narratives around the data matters. This is why Visualizing Singapore (www.viz.sg), a community portal site on data visualizations in Singapore was setup. The aim is to visualize Singapore one dataset at a time, and the hope is to curate different narratives from the ground up. In this talk, Chi-Loong will go through some local data visualizations on topics like elections and economy. You might walk away with insights you never noticed!

For a start to the new year of 2018, we're also looking for individuals who are interested in data visualization, and might be interested to:

• speak at our events and share their knowledge!
• ping us about data visualization projects that you might want put up!
• help run and shape viz.sg
• brainstorm potential ideas

Bio:
Chi-Loong suffers from an incurable disease called curse of the curious hybrid. He has a background in Computer Science, but somehow wandered into journalism, marketing and public relations. Past lives include mainstream and trade media, in-house and agency PR, energy and social media start-ups like Straits Times, British Telecoms and GolinHarris. The corporate world is not really suited for hybrids so he decided to forge out and found V/R (www.vslashr.com), a niche agency that blends art + science to tell stories through technology. He is also an organizer for the Data Vis SG and HHSG meetup events.