Hope you enjoyed it!
We hope you enjoyed Melbourne Data Science Week 2017. You can see some photos of the event and selected presentations
See you again soon!
Melbourne Data Science Week 2017
Meet the Speakers
Meet the Tutors
Melbourne Data Science Week at a Glance
29th May - 2nd June 2017
Mon-Thu: Tutorials @KPMG
(only a few places remaining)
Thursday 1st June from 5:15pm: Opening Talks, Drinks & Finger Food @KPMG
Join us aftter work (or the tutorials) at KPMG for two opening talks and welcome reception, plus an optional tour of their new Insights Centre.
Talks commence at 6pm
Rory Gallagher - Managing Director at the Behavioural Insights Team
Scott Thompson - Customer Solutions & Innovation APAC at Google
Friday 2nd June: Wombat MeDaScIn @nab
| Friday 2nd June | nab | 700 Bourke St, Docklands | ||
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| 5:30+ | Drinks at Platform 28 | |||
| The Arena | The Hall | |||
| Morning | ||||
| 8:00 | Registration (tea & coffee provided) | |||
| 8:30 | Welcome | |||
| 8:40 - 9:25 | Opening Keynote Graham Williams Extreme Ensembles as the Future of Data Science and Intelligent Apps |
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| 9:30 - 9:55 | Lisa Schutz Lean Data v. Big Data: Data scientists have a lot to learn from lean manufacturing. More is not always better. | Ann Nicholson Bayesian networks for decision making under uncertainty |
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| 10:00 - 10:25 | Amy Shee-Nash Data Science at Scale in Large Organisations | Anastasios Panagiotelis Building an Interactive Choropleth using Shiny |
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| 10:25 - 10:45 | Morning Tea (provided) | |||
| 10:45 - 11:10 | Glen Rabie Data Analyst to CEO | Diana Benavides Prado Implementation of a predictive model to support child maltreatment hotline screening decisions |
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| 11:15 - 11:40 | Ying Yang Leading Data Science In The Public Service | Nick Tierney Tidy approaches to Missing Data |
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| 11:45 - 12:10 | Chris Culnane The fallacy of de-identification and its impact on Open Data | Eun-kyung Lee Visualization of Projection Pursuit Classification Tree Models |
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| 12:10 - 12:55 | Lunch (provided) | |||
| Afternoon | ||||
| 12:55 -1:40 | Overseas Keynote Yihui Xie Towards An Open-access, Fast, and Reproducible Journal |
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| 1:40 - 2:20 | Panel Discussion Open Data in Australia: Privacy, Ownership, Quantitative citizenship Lisa Schutz, Andrew Robinson, Di Cook, James Horton, Nicholas Gruen |
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| 2:20 - 2:30 | Break | |||
| 2:30- 2:55 | Colette Marais Data Science in the Wild | Simon Angus The Internet as a quantitative social science observation platform |
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| 3:00 - 3:25 | Ross Gayler Credit scoring as data science in the wild: A stroll through the contextual zoo | Stephanie Kovalchik Challenges of the Challenge System in Professional Tennis |
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| 3:25 - 3:45 | Afternoon Tea (provided) | |||
| 3:45 - 4:10 | Tiberio Caetano Data Science Bullshitting | Sandy Clarke Improving Estimation of Biosecurity Risk |
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| 4:15 - 5:15 | Datathon Presentations** Entrants of the 2017 Melbourne Datathon will present their findings on Australian Drug Prescriptions | Lightning Talks* | ||
| 5:15 - 5:30 | Presentation to the winners of the Kaggle competition for predicting Diabetes, closing address | |||
*Lightning Talks
Christoph Bergmeir Geospatial mapping of episodes of clinical aggression in a major teaching hospital using data visualisation
Tim Baker Pedigree and performance insights in racetrack betting markets
Piyush Madhamshettiwar Interactive multivariate data exploration, visualisation and reporting in R
Jessie Nghiem A dive into life insurance data
Earo Wang Sketch people’s daily schedules
Belinda Maher TBA
** Datathon Insights Presentations
3plus1
D-team
iSelect
United Airline
Searchlight
Kaggle Talk - Paul Harrison
Venues
Welcome Reception and Talks
Thu 1st June 2017 - 5:15pm - 8:30pm
KPMG
Level 36, Tower Two Collins Square
727 Collins St
Melbourne
KPMG is located near the Collins St. entrance of Southern Cross Station. Get the lift in tower 2 to the reception on level 36
(all tutorials will also be held at KPMG)
Wombat MeDaScIn Conference
Friday 2nd June 2017- 8:00am onwards
nab Arena
700 Bourke St
Melbourne
The nab is on the walkway between Southern Cross Station and Etihad Stadium. For directions see here or a map here, or just scroll through the pictures below.
The Arena is on the ground level just opposite the cafe. The Hall is at the top of the escalator located in the foyer just outside the Arena.
Sponsors
Sponsorship opportunities for Melbourne Data Science Week are available. Please click here for details.
Extreme Gradient Boosted Sponsors
Social Network Analyzer
Bayesian Believers
We appreciate the continued support of DSM throughout the year by by the following companies
La Trobe University, Yellowfin, Data Science Solutions, AGL, iSelect, Teradata, Rubix Consulting, deepWhite, SAS, Monash University, KPMG, Zendesk, northraine, Sportsbet, Tiberius Data Mining, nab
The inaugural Melbourne Data Science Week would not have been possible without the generous support of all our tutors, speakers, hosts and sponsors - THANK YOU
If you would like to get involved with DSM then please let us know
Melbourne Data Science week is organised by:
Di Cook (Wombat - Worshop Organised by the Monash Business Analytics Team)
Phil Brierley (MeDaScIn - Melbourne Data Science Initiative)