IAPA Sydney Forum - 25th July 2007

Recently, the ATO's Analytics community of practice, in conjunction with the Institute of Analytics Professionals and the Australian Institute of Professional Intelligence Officers offered a presentation in Canberra by Anthony Nolan OAM titled "Identifying Entity Compliance Behaviour using Movement Permissions and Financial data - A links mapping and Analytics Approach"
The presentation was well-attended with over 60 participants, from over nine different government departments and from private industry.

There have been requests to re-run the presentation interstate, as well as many requests for copies of the presentation. The main part of the presentation discussed some of the practical ways of extracting data, analysing, and mapping results through using linkage charts. One of the more interesting aspects was how by using Binning and Dendrograms (Visual Clustering) you can take a wide range of variables from complex situations and by individualising the relevant entity specific factors with using outlier analysis, to produce profiles, risking ratings and case selection.

Tuesday, 12th June 2007

Salford Systems would like to invite you to attend a cocktail party on Tuesday 12th June 2007, at Customs House, Circular Quay Sydney from 5pm. The evening will include a presentation by Dr. Dan Steinberg, the CEO of Salford Systems, on "The Latest Developments in Predictive Modelling and Data Mining". The presentation will discuss innovative tools for assessing models, extensive modeling automation, methods for uncovering "hotspots" - segments of extraordinarily high value or risk. This will be of particular interest for CRM modellers, fraud and risk analysts, and market researchers. The talk will be followed by drinks and canapés.

Invitations have been sent out to IAPA members and associates in the analytics field. If you would like to attend then please RSVP to rsvp@iapa.org.au

Wednesday 20th December 2006

IAPA held a Christmas function on Wednesday 20th December 2006 in Sydney.

Australasian Data Mining Conference, Sydney 29 and 30 November 2006

The 5th Australasian Data Mining conference (AusDM06) will take place over two days at the end of this month at the University of Technology Sydney (UTS).

This year's program includes sessions on:

Professional Challenges, Health Data Mining, Industry Data Mining, Text Mining, Algorithms, Financial Data Mining, and Web Mining, and features four keynote speakers from industry.

We received 58 submissions this year, from which 25 were selected for presentation by an international committee following a rigid blind peer-review and ranking process. The cut-off threshold for accepted papers has been higher than in previous years (4.3 in 2006 compared to 4.1 on a 5 point scale in 2005). This indicates the high quality of the submissions.

Costs

Full registration costs for the two day conference are $550 (including GST), and $275 for students.

Details about AusDM06, including the accepted papers and registration details can be found at:

http://ausdm06.togaware.com/

We hope to see you there!

Organisers

The organisation committee is Simeon Simoff (UTS), Graham Williams (ATO), Peter Christen (ANU), Paul Kennedy (UTS) and Jiuyong Li (USQ).

Title
Data Linkage techniques: Past, present and future.

Speaker
Dr. Peter Christen, Department of Computer Science, FEIT The Australian National University, Canberra.

Abstract
Techniques for matching, linking or integrating data are becoming increasingly popular in many organisations. While traditionally used mainly in health and statistics, today data linkage is increasingly being applied in and between government organisations to improve outcomes in taxation, census, immigration, social welfare, in crime and fraud detection, and in the assembly of terrorism intelligence.

Many businesses routinely deduplicate and link their data when compiling mailing lists, and databases containing customer data are commonly sold for marketing purposes.

Today, data linkage not only faces computational and operational challenges due to the increasing size of data collections and their complexity, but also privacy and confidentiality challenges due to growing concerns by the general public about their personal information being linked and shared between organisations.

In this talk Peter will (1) present a short history of data linkage, (2) provide an overview of various innovative linkage techniques that have been developed in the last few years, and (3) discuss the core technical research areas that need to be addressed in order to make large scale data linkage both feasible as well as acceptable by the general public.

Biography

Dr Peter Christen is a lecturer at the Department of Computer Science at the Australian National University. He received his Diploma in computer science engineering from the ETH Zurich (Switzerland) in 1995 and his PhD in computer science from the University of Basel (Switzerland) in 1999. His research interests are data mining (especially data preprocessing and data linkage), high-performance computing, and most recently security and privacy preservation (in the context of data linkage and health informatics).

In the last four years his research has concentrated on the project "Investigation and Development of Parallel Large Scale Record Linkage Techniques", an ARC Linkage project conducted in collaboration with and partially funded by the NSW Department of Health.

Location

Room G35 Ground Floor John Dedman Building 27 ANU. It is located between the Union Building and the Drill Hall. G35 is on the western side near Sullivans Creek. There is a paid parking area corner of Childers St and Hutton St. This is located near the John Dedman Building on the eastern side.

4th - 6th April 2006

Swinbourne University

The course, which is a 'hands on' introduction to the SAS system, is designed for people with little or no knowledge of the package. It aims to provide participants with sufficient knowledge of the Base SAS module of the SAS system so that they can create and run their own SAS programs.