Producing impactful research for enhancing public good is one of the core missions of our Data Science and Policy Studies (DSPS) Programme. In this connection, Professor Wilson Wong, our co-director, publishes two academic articles to find out the underlying factors of good government performance in fighting against the COVID-19 pandemic.   In “When the State […]

Professor Wilson Wong, our DSPS co-director, has contributed a guest lecture "Governance in the Digital Era: Concerns, Issues, and Options" for the Executive Master of Public Administration (EMPA) Programme of Tsinghua University in June 2022. All students in the EMPA Programme are major and active actors in the policy and public management arena of Hong […]

As our DSPS is now in its third year after its launch, we have invited some of our students to share stories and reflections of their studies and accomplishments in the Programme. We hope their experiences in their own words would help to guide the DSE students for understanding the focus and identity of our […]

In our Data Science and Policy Studies (DSPS) Programme, learning and impact does not stay inside classrooms. All our teachers are ready to take their teaching to the next level for knowledge transfer and public engagement. For example, Professor Wilson Wong, our DSPS Co-Director, are contributing to Mingpao on a regular basis. This help to […]

This newsletter marks a good year of accomplishment and harvest for our DSPS students and faculty members. We have a unique focus of integrating the analytical power of data science and the insights of policymaking which is quite distinctive from any hard science department and traditional social science programmes. Students sharing our vision are thriving […]

  Embarked on becoming an interdisciplinary programme three years ago, DSPS have not only recruited major students but also attracted students from other programmes and departments. We are pleased to invite some of them who have fulfilled the requirements of our DSPS minor programme to share their experience and exposure from their studies in DSPS. […]

DSPS taster workshops in collaboration with CLAP@JC School Hub were successfully organized for students from the following schools: Queen’s College, Wong Shiu Chi Secondary School, United Christian College (Kowloon East), St. Paul’s School (Lam Tin), DMHC Siu Ming Catholic Secondary School, and Po Leung Kuk Wu Chung College, in July 2022 in the Digital Scholarship […]

Professor Wilson Wong, co-authored with Professor Charles Hinnant of Florida State University, publish a new article "Competing perspectives on the Big Data revolution: a typology of applications in public policy" in Journal of Economic Policy Reform (Q1 in Economics, Econometrics, and Finance) to examine the driving factors of Big Data impacts. While the Big Data revolution is […]