Key Publications
Staying Connected NBN CSIRO:
Working closely with NBN co we used aggregated data to estimate how many people were working, and socialising, from home from January 2020 to June 2021. While the start of the pandemic triggered a major shift, with up to 40% of workers operating remotely during lockdowns, for many this appears to have become a habit. During the first half of 2021, approximately one in five Australian workers were working from home on any given workday, though with considerable variation across the country.
Strengthening Queensland’s NDIS Workforce:
CSIRO’s Data61, in collaboration with Central Queensland University and Global Community Resourcing, produced the Strengthening Queensland’s National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) Workforce report for WorkAbility Qld and funding partner Jobs Queensland. The report explores the workforce challenges and opportunities associated
with the roll-out of the NDIS in 2016.
Understanding the food supply chain from the consumers’ perspectives:
With more devices connected to the internet, collecting and sharing data using Internet of Things (IoT) is an exciting prospect for many food supply chain stakeholders and consumers. However, new technologies introduce significant real and perceived security and privacy concerns that could hinder broader adoptions. In this project we investigated consumer perception of and trust in food and the food supply chain via a mixed-methods approach.
Participatory design of digital agriculture technologies:
This report explores how engagement between researchers, farmers and advisors can work to incentivise on-farm practice change by aligning technology design and information presentation with different values held by targeted end users.
Data Attitudes and Practices Survey (CSIRO’s Data Governance Initiative):
This work distributed a CSIRO wide survey to employees with the aim of understanding the organisational, sector-specific, disciplinary and individual factors influencing research data sharing.
Potential alternative data sources to meet tourism data needs:
Allocating resources to support a sector, such as tourism, requires detailed, up to date data. Traditional survey techniques are effective but are becoming increasingly expensive. Data61 investigated big data alternatives to traditional surveys. The report found the experience of big data promising but different from surveys. Combining multiple big data sources such as transactions and location information gives significantly better results. Data61 recommended trialling big data services (combining data from than one source if possible) alongside surveys while to better understand the errors in big data sources.
Growing opportunities in the Fraser Coast (Jobs Queensland, TAFE Queensland):
Commissioned by Jobs Queensland, CSIRO undertook the research report drawing on literature reviews, employment data and stakeholder interviews, to reveal how the demand and supply of skills is changing over time in the region. The report focuses on identifying employment patterns and skills in demand to maximise future economic opportunities for the Fraser Coast’s workers and businesses.
Resilience in Socio-Economic Systems:
In this report, we present a framework that shows how economic resilience can be defined, measured, and valued from the perspective of a decision-maker. To demonstrate the potential of this framework in a broad range of economic contexts, we demonstrate the application of new tools that enable the quantitative analysis of economic resilience. These developments open up exciting opportunities to better understand how complex social-ecological systems respond to shocks and variability, and to better evaluate policy interventions that affect the resilience of economic regimes.
Lifelong Participation through Digital Technology:
As has always been the case, our ability to flourish into the future will derive from the way in which we harness technology to overcome our challenges and create new opportunities. This report seeks to convey this potential, capturing insights from international experts and high level representatives from across Australian society to understand how the capacity and energy of older Australians can be enabled by digital technology.
The VET Era (TAFE Queensland):
This report is the product of a joint project undertaken by CSIRO and TAFE Queensland which investigates how the Vocational Education and Training (VET) sector can best support Australia’s future workforce in the context of evolving skill needs and forthcoming digital disruption.
Duplicate Detection in Spontaneous Reporting of Adverse Events:
Data duplication is a significant problem in databases of adverse drug reactions as reports often come from a variety of sources. The databases are large making duplication detection expensive. The project developed a parallelized method for de-duplication using Spark.
Tomorrow’s Digitally Enabled Workforce (Federal Department of Employment):
This report examines plausible futures for jobs and employment markets in Australia over the coming twenty years. The narrative of the future is based on a structured process of strategic foresight which identifies megatrends and scenarios.
Diagnostic coding using ICD10 Codes:
In collaboration with CSIRO Health and Biosecurity and the NSW Ministry of Health the project sought to improve classification of death certifications for major diseases such as diabetes, influenza, pneumonia and HIV. Machine learning and keyword matching techniques were trialled and validated with high accuracy achieved.
Adverse Drug Event Detection for Pharmacovigilance:
Social media is becoming an increasingly important source of information to complement traditional pharmacovigilance methods. In order to identify signals of potential adverse drug reactions, it is necessary to first identify medical concepts in the social media text. The project tested a range of existing methods for identification in a controlled setting on a known corpus. The project also developed CADEminer which mines consumer reviews for adverse effects.
CSIRO Adverse Drug Event Corpus (CADEC):
This corpus is useful for studies in the area of information extraction, or more generally text mining, from social media to detect possible adverse drug reactions from direct patient reports. The corpus is publicly available at https://data.csiro.au.