Data Analysis Australia is committed to keeping the community informed about mathematics, statistics and information technology. Data Analysis Australia's newsletters help keep us in contact with our wide range of clients and colleagues and provide useful information on our unique approach to using statistical analysis in a variety of applications.
If you would like to be notified by email when newsletters are published, you can subscribe to our newsletters mailing list. If you would like to have a paper version of the newsletter posted to you, please contact us.
These newsletters are in Adobe PDF format and require a viewer such as Adobe Reader.
Archived newsletters are available.
Current Newsletter | | Previous Newsletter |
 June2013
The theme of this month’s newsletter is measuring behavioural change. There are many intervention programs encouraging the population or groups within the population to change their behaviour and huge amounts of effort and money are being spent. Many programs rely on advertising or information through mail distributions while others are face to face. In all of these programs the big question is how successful were they? How can this be measured? Data Analysis Australia has been involved with a number of intervention programs including water and electricity consumption and commuter programs. The front page article gives an overview of the challenges of modelling for real change in a dynamic population where differences are more prevalent than similarities, and discusses some of the models that are used to analyse the degree of success of an intervention program. The case study gives a specific example of the type of work Data Analysis Australia has done in the use of different electricity sources in the Perth metropolitan area. This month we profile one of our graduate consultants Elyse Corless. | |  March 2013
The theme of this month’s newsletter is the Australian Bureau of Statistics’ Census of Population and Housing, as a series of data releases from the 2011 Census are currently taking place. With such quantities of high quality, relatively recent data being available directly via the ABS website, opportunities for meaningful strategic analyses are extensive. Data Analysis Australia has considerable experience in the use of Census data, as well as data selection and interpretation in general, and the front page article discusses an example in which this expertise has been crucial in delivering a fit-for-purpose solution for one of our clients. The analytical idea discusses selecting the appropriate region as well as data for analysis in the context of defining a target population. This month we profile Emma Smith, Data Analysis Australia’s Census data specialist. We are also celebrating our 25th anniversary year, and would like to thank all of our staff, clients and collaborators, past and present, for helping us reach this significant milestone. |
Articles: Download Newsletter | | Articles: Download Newsletter |
