江苏留学网

The platform developed by Southeast University and Lidutech, which focuses on China’s left-behind children issue with big data and visualization technology, wins a “Best Design” award at the Tianchi competition. [Photo/yangtse.com]

For example, a device screen can show the local regional map, along with various red dots representing the specific locations of left-behind children and their families. 

With a simple click on the red dots, people can get to know the children’s personal information, their family conditions, what towns or cities their parents have been working in, as well as the region’s migration rate. 

For further studies, the platform also embeds a correlation system, as it not only offers health, education and safety information about the children based on physical testing, disease occurrence and medical insurance access, but also enables comparison with living-with-parents children on their heights and weights. 

“What we want to excel in and innovate is transforming cold data into visualized images, from which government decision makers can get first-hand information and predict future development trends, such as the most-in-need type of support, or the major areas in need of relief supplies and manpower support,” said Zhang Zhixian, the students’ tutor and associate professor at Southeast University. 

Judges from Tianchi, a national competition inviting data engineers to brainstorm on public service innovation, were also captivated by the platform. 

At the awards ceremony held in Guangdong, South China last month, the platform won the “Best Design” award and a prize of 20,000 yuan ($3,023). 

“We are more of a social issue solution than a commercial program; I hope our platform can provide new inspiration to solve the left-behind children problem,” Zhang said.