- Seminar: Forecasting demand for Australian passportsMarie Reay Teaching Centre, Canberra
This is a joint event by the Statistical Society of Australia (SSA) Canberra Branch, the IEEE ACT Section, the AI&ML Community of APS Data Professions, and the Canberra Data Scientists Meetup group. After the talk there will be free pizzas and drinks provided to encourage people to stay after the presentation and socialise with others. Please following instructions at end of this message for catering registration.
Title: Forecasting demand for Australian passports – the official model developed wholly within Australian Passport Office
Speaker: Mr. Edward Kang, Australian Passport Office
Date: Tuesday 24 Sept AEDT
Agenda:
5:45-6:15pm Presentation
6:15-6:30pm Q&A
6:30-7:00pm Food, drinks and networking
Venue: Superfloor, Level 6, Marie Reay Teaching Centre (Building 155), Australian National University (MRTC ANU). Address: 155 University Ave, Canberra.
Online Attendance: ZOOM
RSVP: https://www.meetup.com/canberradatasci/events/302841685/
Event Sponsor: SHURAAbstract: Prediction of human behaviour in the ‘real world’ is often challenging, as there are plethora of factors that influence people and some of them occur completely randomly. This challenge is exacerbated when the same factor in the same environment can have different degrees of impacts on different individuals. However, this challenge becomes more manageable when you discover the underlying driver in their behaviour which you can convert to quantitative predictor variables. At the Australian Passport Office, we have analysed data collected over two decades to identify the right attributes to forecast passport demand, and we have used a traditional machine learning technique, random forest, to produce forecast models that were proven to show high accuracy even during and after the COVID-19.
Bio: Mr. Edward Kang is the current author of the official forecast model for Australian passports demand. Edward has over 15 years of hands-on experience in the data science and advanced analytics roles. Some of his achievements include:
- Australia’s first ML-based air passenger screening model piloted at the Department of Immigration and Citizenship,
- Australia’s first ML-based sea cargo screening model deployed at the Australian Customs and Border Protection Services and
- The first ML-based individualised marketing offer model at Vodacom, Democratic Republic of Congo.
All of the above examples have significantly improved the targeted business outcome and advanced the organisations ahead of their game at the time.
Edward has also worked with other large corporate enterprises in telecommunication and energy industries in Australia, and is now a Lead Data Scientist at the Australian Passport Office.
Catering: To assist in catering, please let me know if you are attending in person by 5pm Monday 23 September by entering your details at attendance sheet, or contacting Warren (warren.muller@csiro.au; 0407 916 868). Please regard this as a firm commitment, not just an intention. For withdrawals after the deadline, please remove your name from the sheet and phone or text Warren (0407 916 868).
