Speaker: Gaetano Gargiulo, MARCS Institute Seminar Date: Tuesday July 5 2016, 12.00pm Abstract: The so called modern electrocardiography (ECG) is more than 80 years old. It is well known that ECG is affected by a biasing error almost since its inception that may play a fundamental role in the diagnosis of cardiac diseases. Our hypothesis is that our recent advances in
Speaker: Kyle Evans, Corelogic RP Data Asia Seminar Date: Tuesday June 28 2016, 12.00pm Abstract: Residential property data in Australian is valued at $6.5 Trillion making it a clearly the largest asset class in the nation. Yet despite Australian’s fascination with this asset class and the economy’s dependence on it for prosperity there is a disproportional amount of
Speaker: Hilary Cinis, Data61 Seminar Date: Tuesday June 14 2016, 12.00pm Abstract: Hilary Cinis is the Principal User Experience and Design Team Lead at Data61. She heads up a team of designers working on emerging technology projects that involve large amounts of private and public data. These projects are mainly concerned with improving decision making with data for
Speaker: Bridianne O’Dea, Black Dog Institute Seminar Date: Tuesday May 31 2016, 12.00pm Abstract: Our digital behaviour, including social media use, internet activity, mobile phones and other device usage, is increasingly being utilised for insight into the mental health of individuals and populations. The wealth of routinely generated data is ripe for analysis. This presentation will give an overview
Speaker: Athula Ginige, WSU Seminar Date: Tuesday May 24 2016, 12.00pm Abstract: Today ever increasing amounts of digital information is getting produced. To generate value from this information, relevant information should reach the people when they need it empowering them to take optimal set of actions to meet their needs. Providing such information is still a challenge. Increasing take-up
Speaker: Ludan Stoeckle, Yseop Seminar Date: Tuesday May 17 2016, 12.00pm Abstract: Ludan Stoecklé, who is a founder of Yseop, a software vendor in Artificial Intelligence and Natural Language Generation (NLG), will present i) what is Natural Language Generation (NLG) ii) how it differs from NLU iii) what are the use cases for NLG iv) what are the NLG products
Speaker: Boris Guennewig, Garvan Institute Seminar Date: Tuesday May 10 2016, 12.00pm Abstract: The combination of genomic sequencing techniques with statistical modeling promises to deliver insights into what causes currently incurable complex diseases, like Parkinson’s. In this talk Boris will introduce principle concepts of i) processing sequencing data in a High Performance Computing environment, and subsequent analysis on the
Speaker: Cecile Paris, CSIRO Seminar Date: Tuesday May 3 2016, 12.00pm Abstract: There are about 2.8 Million Twitter users in Australia, all potentially writing posts on a regular basis. And this is only one of the available social media platforms. There is clearly too much data to monitor without computational support. In this talk, I will first provide a
Speaker: Liz Moore, Telstra Seminar Date: Tuesday April 19 2016, 12.00pm Abstract: We explore why there has been so much hype associated with machine learning techniques in recent times. We look at a range of commercial and practical examples of using machine learning techniques in modelling customer behaviours. We compare the outcomes obtained using machine learning techniques vs traditional statistical
Speaker: Valerie Gay & Peter Leijdekkers University of Technology Sydney Seminar Date: Tuesday April 12 2016, 12.00pm Abstract: Nowadays, health, fitness and contextual data can be ubiquitously collected using wearable devices, sensors and smart phones and be stored in various servers and devices. However, to engage users in active monitoring of their health and fitness, it is essential to