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Australian Government Analytics Space

The Australian Government’s Data Analytics Centre of Excellence has released a new resource for employees of the Australian Government to freely interact and share experiences and knowledge. The resource is hosted on the AnalyticsSpace and uses the Askbot open source software which is modelled on StackOverflow. If you are an Australian Government employee working with […]

Introducing Usama Fayyad – Big Data Summit 2014

The Big Data Summit was held at the University of Technology, Sydney, 28 October 2014. The keynote was presented by Dr Usama Fayyad and I had the pleasure of introducing him. Here is my introduction. Good morning and welcome to our keynote presentation. It is indeed an honour to introduce our most distinguished key note […]

Rattle 3.1.0 Released

Rattle 3.1.0 is now available on CRAN. This represents ongoing bug fixes and functionality improvements. Specific updates include: Numerous updates of plots to use ggplot2 rather than base graphics: ROC curves, riskchart, box plots, histogram plots, pairs plot, Benfords. Advanced Graphics is now the default, reverting to tradition graphics where needed. The migration to ggplot2 […]