E2 - Dr. Warwick Graco - The use of Data Science in Government

Ever curious how the analytics and datasciences are applied in
the Australian government agencies?  


We are in an absolute treat on this. I had a privilege of
interviewing Dr. Warwick Graco to understand the use of data
sciences in government.  


Dr Graco is a senior director in data science at Australian
Taxation Office.  


He previously worked for what is now called ‘Medicare Australia’
and was manager of a team that built machine-learning and
multivariate statistical models to help identify fraud and abuse
within Medicare and Pharmaceutical Benefit schemes.  


During his career, he has also worked in Australian Defence Force
as an army officer and served in a variety postings including
time spent assisting with development and delivery of command
support systems .  


Over the years, he has published a number of papers and other
publications involving topics such as defence, strategy and
analytics.  Below is a small clip from the interview, where
we get to learn about the special task forces in tackling the
blackeconomy using data & analytics.


Current Favorite book: 


The Second Machine Age Work, Progress, and Prosperity in
a Time of Brilliant Technologies, by Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew
McAfee.


LinkedIn Profile:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/warwick-graco-4a27044/


Publish papers:



https://www.bookdepository.com/author/Warwick-Graco


https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Warwick_Graco


An Application of Time-Changing Feature
Selection



YouTube Video: Data Mining in Public
Sector


Past Presentation:



https://www.criterionconferences.com/blog/government/analytics-decision-making/


http://ausdm18.ausdm.org/organising-committee/


http://claridenglobal.com/conference/disruptive-innovation-au-2018/who-you-will-meet/


https://researchoutput.csu.edu.au/en/publications/data-mining-16th-australasian-conference-ausdm-2018-bathurst-nsw-


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