Kuang Ser
Senior Editor, Rainforest Investigations
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Summary
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Top SchoolKuang Ser is a data-driven journalist and trainer with 11 years of experience building data journalism capacity across newsrooms, most recently serving as Senior Editor for Rainforest Investigations at the Pulitzer Center. He founded Data-N to deliver affordable, practical data journalism training to resource-constrained outlets and has helped organizations like BBC, CNA and Malaysiakini produce award-shortlisted interactive projects. A longtime open data advocate and organizer of Hacks/Hackers Kuala Lumpur, he bridges journalists, technologists and government to build sustainable open-data ecosystems. Kuang combines hands-on skills in data wrangling, visualization and news-app development with program leadership roles in international competitions such as the Sigma Awards and Data Journalism Awards. He also teaches information literacy and fact-checking, reflecting a growing focus on combating misinformation alongside investigative reporting.
11 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Science (BS), Chemical Engineering (Bioprocess), Bachelor of Science (BS), Chemical Engineering (Bioprocess) at Universiti Teknologi MalaysiaMaster's degree, Studio 20 - digital innovation and new media, Master's degree, Studio 20 - digital innovation and new media at New York University
Chinese, Malay, English
Github Skills (4)
embeddable3
visualization3
charts3
data-visualization2
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
kuangkeng/pri-projects
Jun 2015 - May 2017
Contributions:515 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 11 months
Sigma-Awards/shortlist-2021
May 2021 - Mar 2022
Contributions:13 commits, 13 pushes, 1 branch in 10 months
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