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Hackathon – NASA Space App 2016

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An MDSI student perspective on attending the NASA Space APP Hackathon By Anthony So What is a Hackathon? A hackathon is an event where the participants collaborate to tackle some problems and challenges set by the organiser. This kind of event is getting more and more popular across the globe. Corporations, governments or NGOs have seen the benefits in organising these competitions. First it is a good opportunity for them to create some buzz around their organisations, secondly they can find tal...
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CIC@LAK

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CIC was very active at the 6th International Learning Analytics and Knowledge (LAK) Conference in April. Below is a quick guide to find out what they presented... Pre-Conference Workshops, Monday 25 April 8:30am-4:30pm: Simon Buckingham Shum and Simon Knight co-chaired the full-day workshop on “Critical Perspectives on Writing Analytics”, with Andrew Gibson contributing. 8:30am-12:30pm: Simon Knight co-chaired the workshop “Putting Temporal Analytics into Practice: The 5th International Work...
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CIC-Around

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This semester has seen the launch of a new CIC community space to support learning for MDSI students. Responding to student feedback, CIC has worked with students to develop a wordpress multi-site platform to provide a community space for discussion and blogging called: CIC-Around. CIC has received VC teaching and learning grant funds to support a community steward in the project - to be introduced soon - to support our understanding of the community needs, and how we can further develop the p...
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Quarterly Highlights (Jan-Mar 2016)

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The year has been very busy on both the teaching and research fronts, below you will find all the headlines! For more information read our latest UTS CIC Quarterly Newsletter Students studying the Master of Data Science & Innovation (MDSI) have once again emerged victorious in the second NSW government’s Data Analytics Centre invitational hackathon (having won the inaugural one). We have launched our Learning Analytics PhD program with three $35K Scholarships, and are appointing student...
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MDSI students shine (again) in NSW Gov Data Challenge

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Students studying the Master of Data Science & Innovation (MDSI) have once again emerged victorious in the second NSW government’s Data Analytics Centre invitational hackathon. Tackling three rounds of a challenge set by Fire and Rescue NSW to differentiate true fires from false alarms, the winning team enriched the dataset provided by adding weather and Twitter data, and generated additional features such as building type. Excitingly, their work may now influence data policy. A combined t...
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Reflections on 2015

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Tomorrow it's Christmas Eve, and CIC will fall silent as midday strikes! It's a good moment to reflect on a dynamic year. . . If you're seeing this via our newsletter, then welcome to the first of the new updates in which we aggregate from the CIC website the month's activities for you to stay in touch with everything that the CIC team is up to. To kick things off, we have a bumper issue pulling in the last two months' news, plus this end of year retrospective. An innovation lab is only as good...
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Running an internal Data Challenge

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The irony we need to iron out One of the ironies in universities the world over is that academics secure external funding to analyse diverse organisations with their dilemmas, but more rarely tackle their own institutional challenges. Consider computer science, statistics, management, economics: often they are focused on analysing data from other organisations. This is typically due to a mix of funding incentives, professional identity/career development, and organisational politics (it can be...
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MDSI students enjoy data slam success

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For a small but dedicated band of students in our new MDSI program, Spring Semester has been shaped around one constant: hackathons! Data challenges ( or data slams as we like to call them) are growing in popularity as ways to put 'fast-fail' approaches into practice on small but instrumental bursts. Our students have participated in GovHack, UnearthedSydney, AusDM and NSWDAC. At every turn they have had impressive results - culminating in their most recent success at an invitation-only challen...
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Partnering with a future-focused school

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CIC's primary audiences for our Learning Analytics work are our UTS academic and other staff colleagues, and our students. However, CIC was also created to advance the work of researchers in other faculties through the use of analytics. Our colleagues in the School of Education are partnering with Turramurra High School (THS), which has been recognised by the NSW Department of Education as a leading school in the state. We are adding additional dimensions to this: through the work of Ruth Cri...
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CIC playing a ViTal role in supporting visual learning

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“Seeing between the lines”: ideation and thinking visually for learning and teaching As part of a 2015 Deputy Vice Chancellor's Learning & Teaching Grant, CIC has been heavily involved in the creation of a learning community exploring ways ideation (processes for generating ideas) and visual techniques can support the design and delivery of teaching material and help students effectively think through and communicate their work. This project builds on the research and teaching expertise of...
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