Te Rourou Tātaritanga

Informatics for Social Services and Wellbeing

[Te Rourou Tātaritanga @terourou]

Thank you to everyone who attended our data symposium last week! We hope you enjoyed hearing from our guests and found opportunities to network with others in NZ's data community.

Speaker slides are now available from our website, https://t.co/ugrm2IACWp.

[Colin Simpson @ProfColSimpson]

Professor Janeen Baxter is Director of the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Children and Families over the Life Course. Where is the best place to intervene to shift people out of disadvantage? @terourou

[Colin Simpson @ProfColSimpson]

Professor Mark Western Professor of Sociology at the University of Queensland. Presents on the Australian Research Infrastructure social science research capability @terourou

[Colin Simpson @ProfColSimpson]

Professor (emeritus) Peter Christen is a Professor in the School of Computing at the Australian National University. Developing novel population data linkage methods with large databases @terourou

[Colin Simpson @ProfColSimpson]

Graham Williams. Chief Scientist, Software Innovation Institute ANU. Personal online data stores (PODs) putting the individual back at the focus of their data (rather than organisations collecting and controlling data). @terourou

[Colin Simpson @ProfColSimpson]

Prof. Chris Dibben Chris has developed infrastructure to access data. Presenting what has been helpful in Scotland. Linking individuals over their life course and between generations. Looking at Natural Experiments to explore causality. @terourou

[Colin Simpson @ProfColSimpson]

Bill Simpson-Young talking about his work. Hope topic - Creating software tools to help people understand how Generative AI works. Machine learning for causal inference @terourou #dataethics

[Colin Simpson @ProfColSimpson]

Nancy Potok served as the Chief Statistician of the United States in the Executive Office of the President. Talks about guiding principles and a framework for administrative data. Invest in learning - continuous/collaborative learning & data leadership.@terourou #datasaveslives

[Colin Simpson @ProfColSimpson]

Professor Julia Lane - New York University, a Kiwi from Palmy North. Democratising our data a manifesto - to use data to create clear value, create researcher/agency partnership, deliver product from data quickly, create a data community @terourou #datasaveslives

[Colin Simpson @ProfColSimpson]

Kia ora Minister of Statistics Deborah Russell. Talking about the effects of the recent Cyclone - data has been critical for our response and recovery. Data is a strategic national asset. @terourou #datasaveslives

[Te Rourou Tātaritanga @terourou]

Ever wonder what info is available in the IDI? Need to look up variable descriptions but dread opening the Excel spreadsheet?

We've just updated our IDI Search tool with more metadata and a bunch of other fixes. Try it out and leave us your feedback!

https://t.co/FPEyDt7ayy

[Te Rourou Tātaritanga @terourou]

Earlier this year, we held a workshop with participants from government, industry, and academia to discuss data ethics, privacy, and governance in Aotearoa.

You can read the summary report on our website: https://t.co/8Y5FBjj1ZZ cc @SWA_govt_nz @ProfColSimpson @AASporle

[Te Kotahi @Te_Kotahi]

Join us today for this Te Mana Raraunga wananga on MDSov and Health data. Great speakers in Andrew Sporle and Mataroria Lyndon to shape the discussions.

[Colin Simpson @ProfColSimpson]

Just out from @ESRNewZealand and colleagues - a great team to work with: COVID-19 vaccine strategies for Aotearoa New Zealand: a mathematical modelling study https://t.co/nN02ODUo8O

[Te Rourou Tātaritanga @terourou]

Coming up next month is the COMPASS Research Colloquium, 10am-1pm on 5 August in Wellington. More info on our events page, registrations limited: https://t.co/Kz4Y7BGaQs

[Te Rourou Tātaritanga @terourou]

If you missed any talks, or maybe the entire event, you can now (re-)watch the Innovations in Applied Data Symposium on our website! https://t.co/aw6TjkiU7M #terourou

[Te Rourou Tātaritanga @terourou]

If you missed any talks, or maybe the entire event, you can now (re-)watch the Innovations in Applied Data Symposium on our website! https://t.co/aw6TjkiU7M #terourou

[Te Rourou Tātaritanga @terourou]

Thanks to everyone who attended the Innovations in Applied Data Symposium earlier this month, and double thanks to everyone who contributed a talk - if you missed any, you can now watch them on our website (https://t.co/aw6TjkiU7M) by choosing a stream!

[Chris Wild @wildaboutstats]

Democratising data science is an important issue we've been tackling with @iNZightUoA - read our discussion piece about "Empowering the Many"
for @TheHDSR with @tomelliottnz and @AAsporle
https://t.co/HDPLW1nKwv

[Andrew Sporle @AASporle]

@PolicyAuckland @healthierNZ @SWA_govt_nz @terourou An excellent day sharing awesome work and ideas for the future of applied data in Aotearoa. Big shout out to the awesome event skills of Tom Dick and Harry event management, Louise Pirini and our freshly capped Dr Tom Elliott