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Henry Tan was born in a small town, Sukabumi, Indonesia, on December 7th, 1979. He obtained his Bachelor of Computer Systems Engineering with first class honour from La Trobe University, VIC, Australia in 2003. During his undergraduate study, he was nominated as the most outstanding Honours Student in Computer Science. Additionally, he was the holder of 2003 ACS Student Award. After he finished his Honour year at La Trobe University, on August 2003, he continued his study pursuing his doctorate degree at UTS under supervision Prof. Tharam S. Dillon. He obtained his PhD on March 2008. His research interests include Data Mining, Computer Graphics, Game Programming, Neural Network, AI, and Software Development. On January 2006 he took the job offer from Microsoft Redmond, USA as a Software Design Engineer (SDE).

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EDUCATIONS:
2003-2007: PhD in Comp. Science, University of Technology Sydney, Australia. (thesis)

2000-2002: Bachelor of Comp. Sys. Eng. (Hons), La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia. (thesis)

Friday, August 22, 2014

Volunteer work Summer 2014: Defending Indonesia's Democracy with election vote counter - pilpres2014.org

Silicon Valley coder wants to defend Indonesia’s democracy with election vote counter and neat data visualizations

Tomorrow is a monumental day in Indonesia, when the Elections General Commission (KPU) will be announcing who’s the next president of Indonesia based on the official voting tally. In the two weeks since the vote took place, both candidates declared that they have won based on different quick count results, and neither of them are backing down from their claims today. Because of this, many people in the country have turned to tech, creating initiatives such as online crowdsourced vote counts that aim to make the contested count more transparent. The most “open source” initiative of them all is Pilpres2014.org 1. 

As with the other vote counting sites that have popped up since the July 9 general election, Pilpres2014 lets you see the counting results based on the vote tally documents released on KPU’s website. Furthermore, visitors can also see data visualizations based on the tallies, like bubble graphs and deep bar hierarchies (which I personally love; see the video below). The data is updated every two hours.

Read more: Silicon Valley coder wants to defend Indonesia’s democracy with election vote counter and neat data visualizations http://www.techinasia.com/pilpres2014-open-source-indonesia-president-election-vote-counting-site/


Media coverages:
  • http://www.techinasia.com/pilpres2014-open-source-indonesia-president-election-vote-counting-site/
  • http://tekno.kompas.com/read/2014/07/23/10405767/Bikin.Bangga.Semangat.Kolaborasi.Teknologi.untuk.Pilpres.2014
  • http://tekno.kompas.com/read/2014/07/20/15310027/Peneliti.Microsoft.ikut.Awasi.Hitung.Suara.Pilpres.2014
  • http://www.pilpres2014.org/AboutUs.html

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