This webinar presents the challenges and potential outcomes of creating data collaborative projects.
The Swinburne Data CO-OP platform, provides capabilities for data analytics, secure data storage and advanced data visualisation. Professor Amir Aryani, Head of the Social Data Analytics (SoDA) Lab at Swinburne, will provide a summary of data projects undertaken with organisations in the not-for-profit and government sectors. He will discuss how researchers in public health, social and urban science can transform their private and public datasets into spatially enabled data visualisations and 3D mapping.
Speaker: Amir Aryani is the Head of the Social Data Analytics (SoDA) Lab in the Social Innovation Research Institute at Swinburne. The Lab applies contemporary and emerging co-op data analytics techniques to provide insight into health and social problems. He has collaborated with high-profile international institutions such as British Library, ORCID (U.S), Data Archiving an
The Social Data in Action Series is presented by the Social Innovation Research Institute at Swinburne and the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision Making and Society. The series explores the interface between social science and data science, and connects researchers and industry professionals with leading global voices in the field.
The Social Data in Action Series is presented by the Social Innovation Research Institute at Swinburne and the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision Making and Society. The series explores the interface between social science and data science, and connects researchers and industry professionals with leading global voices in the field.
social data superheroes.
In this webinar, Professor Jane Farmer and Associate Professor Anthony McCosker from the Social Innovation Research Institute, will discuss the importance of social data, the international state of play, the goals of data-driven work with communities, NGOs, services and others. They will provide a mapping type overview of ‘where’ and ‘how’ interface and translational work is happening, including key international and national examples and innovative work being led by the
Data for Good Collaboration: research report
Description
In 2020, Swinburne University of Technology’s Social Innovation Research Institute partnered with Lord Mayor’s Charitable Foundation, Entertainment Assist, Good Cycles and Yooralla, to create the
Data for Good Collaboration model.
The project had two aims:
Build organisational data capacity through knowledge sharing about data literacy, expertise and collaboration
Deliver data insights through a methodology of collaborative data analytics
This report presents key findings from the research partnership, which involved the design and delivery of a series of webinars that built data literacy; and participatory data capacity-building workshops facilitated by teams of social scientists and data scientists. It also draws on interviews with participants, reflecting on the benefits and opportunities data literacy can offer to individuals and organisations in the not-for-profit and NGO sectors.