Analyst First (A1) - Canberra Chapter Meeting

Dear analytics and data science colleagues,

Following on from our last gathering, where Klaus Felsche gave an excellent presentation on setting up an analytics capability in Federal Government, this session will be about running such an operation in the analysis of taxation data at the ATO.

Agenda:

• David Bremstaller - Chairing address and introduction of our keynote speaker

• Dr Rohan Baxter – Keynote presentation “Data Science in the ATO”

• What is Data Science?

• Analytics Value Chain

• Analytics Capability Model

• Successful projects/case studies from ATO:

• Debt risk scoring

• Fraud detection

• Knowledge automation analytic models for automating workflows

• Client segmentation

• Related Entity/Network analysis

• Text Mining

• Real Time Nearest Neighbour models for Work-Related Expenses

• Intermission - Afternoon tea and networking

• Panel discussion and Q&A: Rohan Baxter, David Bremstaller and, if we are lucky, Eugene Dubossarsky

Location: Microsoft, Level 4, 6 National Circuit, Barton

Date/time: 4pm - 6pm on Monday, December 12th.

Please forward this email to your network of interested parties and RSVP David Bremstaller (dabremst@microsoft.com) by Friday December 9th. All are welcome; from the hobbyists, aspiring analysts through to statisticians, consultants, professors and the like.