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1st Workshop on Analytics, Data Mining & Predictive Modelling:
Health Informatics, Business Intelligence, Climate Change and Other Applications
(In conjunction with the UNISCON 2009 Annual Conference)
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Wednesday 22 April 2009
University of Western Sydney Australia, Campbelltown
Campus Room 30.G.213
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Keynote Speakers:
Daniel Catchpoole (Head, Tumour Bank, the Children's Hospital at Westmead)
Tim Manns (Director - Data Mining Innovations Team, Optus)
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The objectives of this workshop are to:
- Present the use of Data Mining in scientific research and industry applications for intelligent decision making.
- Demonstrate how use of Data Mining can be applied to many application fields where data is available -: Illustrated by examples in Health Care, Business Intelligence and Climate Change.
- Encourage research collaboration among Data Mining experts and practitioners in many application areas who work with large volumes of data.
- Promote the user friendliness of Data Mining methodologies to practitioners seeking to analyze large data sets.
- Demonstrate how Data Integration and Data Processing can be achieved easily using Enterprise Miner.
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Cost : $220 To register http://www.uniscon2009.org/registration.pl
Rate Includes: The workshop material, whole day of the conference, all meals(morning tea, lunch, afternoon tea) and the conference social event BBQ dinner.
Places are limited for the hands on session so early registration is recommended.
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1st Workshop on Analytics, Data Mining & Predictive Modelling:
Health Informatics, Business Intelligence, Climate Change and Other Applications
(In conjunction with the UNISCON 2009 Annual Conference)
Program
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Scope |
| 9.00 – 9.20 |
Welcome |
- Introduction to the Workshop: Mining linked data – a new frontier |
| 9.20 – 10.00 |
Daniel Catchpoole, Head, Tumour Bank, The Children's Hospital at Westmead
Title: Making sense of how best to treat children with leukaemia: Mining systems biology data to personalised medicine |
- The need for sense-making with systems biology data
- How to make sense of systems biology data
- Diagnostic applications for sense-making approaches |
| 10.00 – 10.40 |
Tim Manns (Director - Data Mining Innovations Team, Optus)
Title: Know your customers. Know who they know they know, and who they don't. |
- What skills are required for Data Mining?
- What problems are commonly faced during Data Mining projects?
- And just what is this Data Mining stuff all about anyway? |
| 10.40 – 11.00 |
Morning Tea |
| 11.00-11.30 |
Slavé Petrovski, BioGrid
Australia
Title: The Application Of Machine
Learning To Improve Health Outcomes In Tertiary Hospitals
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- Discuss the dire need for more efforts into developing techniques to better extrapolate knowledge from the ever-increasing stores of data and information that are accumulating at an exponential rate.
- Discuss how incorporating environmental and clinical co-variates can improve the predictive performance of the multigenic classifier. |
| 11.30-12.00 |
Liwan Liyanage, University of Western Sydney
Title: Data Integration and Data Mining Framework for Climate Change Impact Management |
- Need for data integration in modelling climate systems
- How Data Mining can help study the impacts of climate change to achieve sustainability
- Illustrate why climate change cannot be studied meaningfully in isolation
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| 12.00-01.00 |
Introduction to Data Mining |
| 01.00-02.00 |
Lunch |
| 02.00-04.00 |
Hands on Session: Introduction to Data Mining using Enterprise Miner(Room TBA)
- Illustrate how Data Mining tools can be used to find meaningful patterns in large, complex quantitative databases
- Illustrate although Data Mining methods are used to analyse quantitative data that they are also qualitative in orientation.
- Illustrate how data processing and integration can be done easily using Enterprise Miner
- Illustrate how data mining assists in many fields including Health Informatics, Business Intelligence, Climate Change and demonstrate how these techniques and tools can be used by quantitative as well as qualitative researchers. |
| 04.00-04.20 |
Afternoon Tea |
| 04.20-06.00 |
Panel/ Industry Session (Room 30.G.206) |
| 06.00 |
BBQ Dinner and Entertainment (FoyerBuilding 30) |
Cost: The cost of attending this workshop is only $220. This fee includes the workshop material, whole day of the conference, all meals (morning tea, lunch, afternoon tea) and the conference social event BBQ dinner.
Register: To register for the workshop, please visit the Registrations page.
(PS: The attendees of the UNISCON 2009 conference do not need to register separately for this workshop)
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