The initial impact of the COVID-19, social distancing and movement restrictions on crime in NSW, Australia.
The Canberra Branch of the Statistical Society of Australia invites you to its August branch meeting, featuring an online talk by Dr Joanna Wang from the University of Technology Sydney. Abstract: The spread of COVID-19 has prompted Governments around the world to impose draconian restrictions on business activity, public transport, and public freedom of movement.…
Inflation & the Australian Economy
Explore the Australian Economy in the next "Data Science in the News" from the QUT Centre for Data Science. In this session, the panel will explore economic issues that impact all of us including inflation, housing, jobs interest rates and more through the lens of data science. You will hear from: Catherine Smyth - Acting…
ADSN Workshop with ARDC
The Australian Data Science Network is pleased to welcome the Australian Data Research Commons (ARDC) for an online discussion to explore opportunities on how the ADSN and its organisations might work together with the ARDC. We will be joined by Ian Duncan, the ARDC’s Director of Outreach. He will give us a brief overview of…
ARDC Leadership Series: Closing the Digital Research Skills Gap
Change in the skills space has always been fast paced but never more so than now and with such specificity to the research workforce. Within research, there is an imperative to explore cutting-edge innovation, employ new methods and technologies and forge new skills in the process. As the criticality of digital research skills emerges there…
Data-driven Queueing Challenges (DDQC II): Management of Service Systems
The second multi-continent workshop will be held over 20-22 September 2022 on the subject of the Management of Service Systems. Previously, in September 2021 we held an online workshop on Data-driven Queueing Challenges, comprising 18 talks across multiple time zones with 300 registrants from 25 countries. The objective of this workshop is to highlight and…
Should I Learn R?
This brief introduction is designed to just get you up and running using R in RStudio to see if this is the package for you. The workshop will cover installing R, importing data, doing simple summary statistics, and producing a simple plot. The Data and Decision Science Initiative at the University of Wollongong is putting…