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What Data Science can do for Australia

Dr. Ian Oppermann

CEO and Chief Data Scientist, NSW Data Analytics Centre

We live in a big country …

With a small populationAnd not a lot of water

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Declining returns from miningIncreasing impact of extreme weather

A proven track record of research excellence Limited success in translation

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Source : “Benchmarking Australian Science performance”, Feb 2013, Office of the Chief Scientist, Circles are placed vertically and coloured by average citations per paper over the period

Innovation?…we certainly have the ideas

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NSW Data and Analytics Centre

There is no such thing as the “middle of nowhere” in the digital economy

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Moving Bits not atoms…

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Digitise Link Understand Personalise Deploy

Data Science is ultimately about productivity

Which data sets can be analysed to make existing operations more efficient?

Which data sets can be analysed to make existing services more effective?

Which new data sets could be harnessed to deliver services in

new ways?

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Global Trade…is changing

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Global online traffic has grown from 84 petabytes a month in 2000 to more than 40,000 petabytes a month in 2012.

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Global Trade…is changing

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Global online traffic has grown from 84 petabytes a month in 2000 to more than 40,000 petabytes a month in 2012.

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For companies operating

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Data as a factor of production

Global Trade…is services

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BlockchainDistributed Trust

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Example Projects

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The project also seeks to develop a better understanding of the cohort of students undertaking courses offered by VET training centres by Region to improve projections of

skilled graduates in these Regions (“supply” analysis).

Screenshot showing a visualisation of the one Region : current VET enrolments and projected 2019 employment demand

High Level Project Question“What is the alignment between jobs and skills

needed and the VET courses offered?”

Example VET Outcomes


Example Infrastructure Planning

In-depth knowledge of the population demographics in an area is key to the targeting of infrastructure investment.

An accurate forecast of the future population of an area, and how that population will use public infrastructure, will allow for better targeted infrastructure investment decisions.

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More deeply understanding the time varying

“population”

Helping predict the population into the future

Mapping dynamic population to infrastructure

demand


What options are there to improve the effectiveness of Out of Home Care interventions in NSW?

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Example OOHC


What do we still need to address?


Privacy


Privacy Example Questions• When is personally identifiable data present?• Can we develop a nationally accepted test for different data types?• Under what conditions can personally identifiable data be used for secondary purposes?• When is consent for reuse of personal data feasible?

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Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.

Albert Einstein

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Dr. Ian OppermannCEO and Chief Data Scientist, NSW Data Analytics Centre

ICT and Digital Government | Department of Finance, Services & Innovatione [email protected] | www.finance.nsw.gov.auLevel 8, 2-24 Rawson Place, Sydney NSW 2000

mailto:[email protected]

http://www.services.nsw.gov.au/

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