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China can reshape the global oil market

CMCRC researchers show that China is still on track to reshape the global oil marketTalk of a petroyuan replacing the petrodollar has been called “premature”, but analysis from CMCRC shows that China’s new crude oil futures contract is exceeding expectation when compared to the established US and European exchanges in key areas.In March 2018, The

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DATA MINING RESEARCHERS USE INNOVATIVE TECHNIQUES TO BUILD ROBUST CLASSIFIER

Researcher discovers that a combination of adversarial learning and sparse modelling techniques improves the performance of an email/spam classifier. Fei Wang CMCRC PhD candidate U. of Sydney Prof Sanjay Chawla CMCRC Research Leader U. of Sydney   Classifiers are widely used in many computer-based applications to the bene- fit of virtually all computer users. An

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UNDERSTANDING CHRONIC DISEASE COMORBIDITIES FROM BASELINE NETWORKS – KNOWLEDGE DISCOVERY UTILISING ADMINISTRATIVE HEALTHCARE DATA

Hospitals routinely collect admitted patients’ data for administrative purposes and for reporting to the government and health insurers. These heterogeneous and mostly untapped data contain rich semantic information about patients’ health conditions in the form of standard disease codes. These traces of clinical information can be aggregated over patients to understand how their health progresses

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COMPUTER SCIENCE RESEARCH PRODUCES NEW TYPE OF REGRESSION ALGORITHM FOR STOCK PICKING

Study looks at combining text data and financial quantitative data to produce a model for predicting a stocks daily return. Tony Zhao Zhao is a PhD student at Macquarie University. He has worked on a wide range of topics including embedded systems, digital signal processing, machine learning, large-scale data processing and natural language processing but

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PERSONER: PERSIAN NAMED-ENTITY RECOGNITION

Named-Entity Recognition (NER) is still a challenging task for languages with low digital resources. The main difficulties arise from the scarcity of annotated corpora and the consequent problematic training of an effective NER pipeline. To abridge this gap, in this paper we target the Persian language that is spoken by a population of over a

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PIONEERING VISUALIZATION FRAMEWORK MAKES THE PICTURE CLEARER

Researchers produce a new framework, StreamEB, which could revolutionise the visual analysis of data and graph streams. Dr Quan Nguyen CMCRC PhD graduate U. of Sydney  Prof Peter Eades CMCRC Research Leader U. of Sydney   High velocity data streams such as trading data have become ubiquitous since the 1990s and graph streaming is becoming

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A FRAMEWORK FOR ADMINISTRATIVE CLAIM DATA TO EXPLORE HEALTHCARE COORDINATION AND COLLABORATION

Previous studies have documented the application of electronic health insurance claim data for health services research purposes. In addition to administrative and billing details of healthcare services, insurance data reveal important information regarding professional interactions/links that emerge among healthcare service providers through, for example, informal knowledge sharing. By utilising details of such professional interactions and

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