Category: HEALTH SEMINARS

REALISING THE POTENTIAL OF BIG HEALTH DATA FOR AUSTRALIAN PHARMACOEPIDEMIOLOGICAL RESEARCH. HOW ARE WE GOING?

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Speaker: Sallie Pearson, University of NSW Seminar Date: Tuesday April 5 2016, 12.00pm Abstract: We have comprehensive data on community medical care, emergency department visits, hospitalisations and medicines dispensed in the community. Linkage of these health administrative datasets with other routinely collected data such as cancer and death registrations creates a powerful and comprehensive tool to investigate the full spectrum

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COMPUTING, MENTAL HEALTH AND WELLBEING

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Speaker: Rafael Calvo, University of Sydney Seminar Date: Tuesday 22 March 2016, 12.00pm Abstract: There is increased awareness amongst computing professionals that the tools we build have an impact on people’s psychological wellbeing and mental health. AI has generally focused on improving productivity and therefore wealth, but more recently, more humanistic variables are beginning to be taken into account.

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UTILISING BIG DATA IN THE SEARCH FOR LOW-VALUE HEALTH CARE

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Speaker: Kelsey Chalmers (CMCRC-HMQ PhD Student), University of Sydney Seminar Date: Tuesday 15 September 2015 Abstract: The practice of medical services with high costs and unlikely benefits for patients is concerning from both an economic and patient safety perspective. The aim of my PhD project is to describe the current prevalence of selected low-value services in a large Australian

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DATA, KNOWLEDGE AND DISCOVERY: MACHINE LEARNING MEETS NATURAL SCIENCE

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Speakers: Hugh Durrant-Whyte, University of Sydney Seminar Date: Tuesday 22 September 2015 Abstract: Increasingly it is data, vast amounts of data, that drives scientific discovery. At the heart of this so-called “fourth paradigm of science” is the rapid development of large-scale statistical data fusion and machine learning methods. While these developments in “big data” methods are largely driven

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BIG DATA ANALYTICS: APPLICATIONS IN HEALTHCARE

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Speaker: Amin Beheshti, Lecturer and Senior Research Associate in the Service Oriented Computing Group, School of Computer Science and Engineering (CSE), University of New South Wales (UNSW), Australia Seminar Date: Tuesday 29 September 2015 Abstract: The ability to harness the ever increasing amounts of data will enable us to understand what is happening in the world. In this

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TEXT DATA SCIENCE: ROADMAP AND RECENT RESULTS

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Speakers: Ben Hachey, PhD University of Sydney and CTO Abbrevi8 Pty Ltd & Andy Chisholm PhD University of Sydney Seminar Date: Tuesday 18 August 2015 Abstract: Text data science combines natural language processing, information retrieval and machine learning to derive insight from textual data. In the first part of the talk, Ben will give a tour of current

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ARE HEDGERS INFORMED? AN EXAMINATION OF THE PRICE IMPACT OF LARGE TRADES IN AGRICULTURAL FUTURES MARKETS

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Speaker: Shunquan Zhang Seminar Date: Tuesday 11 August 2015 Brief Abstract: The ‘received’ view in the finance literature is that hedgers are uninformed traders who use futures to fix future price movements in order to prevent losses from unexpected and unknown fluctuations in the purchase or sale price of a commodity. In this session, we examine transactions executed

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TRUE BUSINESS GROWTH THROUGH ATTRIBUTION MARKETING

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Speaker: Tiberio Caetano, Ambiata, ANU and UNSW Seminar Date: Tuesday 5 May 2015 Abstract: Ambiata is a recent NICTA spin-out company focused on Attribution Marketing. Organisations have a fundamental problem: how to interact with their customers so as to achieve a desired goal. To solve this problem they need to be able to accurately attribute ultimate successes and failures

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