ANU Data Mining Group

Talks

2008

Automatic Training Example Selection for Scalable Unsupervised Record Linkage
Peter Christen
Presentation at the Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD), Osaka, Japan, May 2008.
Slides 4up (pdf, 1.2 MB) Slides 1up (pdf, 391 KB)

2007

A Two-Step Classification Approach to Unsupervised Record Linkage
Peter Christen
Presentation at the Sixth Australasian Data Mining Conference (AusDM 2007), Gold Coast, Australia, December 2007.
Slides 4up (pdf, 1.3 MB)
Evaluation of a Graduate Level Data Mining Course with Industry Participants
Peter Christen
Presentation at the Sixth Australasian Data Mining Conference (AusDM 2007), Gold Coast, Australia, December 2007.
Slides 4up (pdf, 1.2 MB)
Data Linkage Research at the ANU
Peter Christen
Invited talk at the The Distillery, Canberra, July 2007.
Slides 8up (pdf.gz, 1.7 MB) Slides 8up (ps.gz, 1.4 MB)

2006

Privacy-Preserving Data Linkage and Geocoding: Current Approaches and Research Directions
Peter Christen
Presentation at the Workshop on Privacy Aspects of Data Mining (PADM) held at the IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM), Hong Kong, December 2006.
Slides (pdf, 859 KB) Slides 8up (ps.gz, 1.4 MB)
A Comparison of Personal Name Matching: Techniques and Practical Issues
Peter Christen
Presentation at the Workshop on Mining Complex Data (MCD) held at the IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM), Hong Kong, December 2006.
Slides (pdf, 830 KB) Slides 8up (ps.gz, 1.3 MB)
Recent Developments in Data Linkage and Research at the ANU
Peter Christen
Invited talk at the Australian Taxation Office, Data matching personnel, Canberra, December 2006.
Slides 10up (ps.gz, 1.6 MB)
Data Quality Aspects in Data Mining, Data Linkage and Geocoding
Peter Christen
Invited talk at Geoscience Australia, Canberra, November 2006.
Slides (pdf, 1.7 MB) Slides (ps.gz, 1.2 MB) Slides 9up (ps.gz, 1.2 MB)
Secure Health Data Linkage and Geocoding: Current Approaches and Research Directions
Peter Christen and Tim Churches
Presentation at the National e-Health Privacy and Security Symposium (ehPASS), Brisbane, October 2006.
Slides (pdf, 779 KB) Slides 9up (ps.gz, 363 KB)
Data Linkage Techniques: Past, Present and Future
Peter Christen
Invited talk at the Australian Taxation Office, Canberra, October 2006.
(same set of slides as used for the Analytics Practise Group presentation, see below).
Data Linkage Techniques: Past, Present and Future
Peter Christen
Invited talk at the Canberra Analytics Practise Group, Canberra, August 2006.
Slides 8up (pdf, 1.5 MB) Slides 8up (ps.gz, 630 KB) Slides (pdf, 1.5 MB)

2005

De-duplication and Data Linkage Quality: What to measure?
Karl Goiser
Presentation at the fourth Australasian Data Mining Conference (AusDM 2005), Sydney, December 2005.
Slides 8up (pdf, 395 KB) Slides (pdf, 292 KB)
Automated Probabilistic Address Standardisation and Verification
Peter Christen
Presentation at the fourth Australasian Data Mining Conference (AusDM 2005), Sydney, December 2005.
Slides 8up (ps.gz, 428 KB) Slides (pdf, 892 KB) Slides (ps.gz, 425 KB)
Recent Developments in Data Linkage Technologies
Peter Christen
Invited talk at the Data Linkage Symposium of the Canberra Branch of the Statistical Society of Australia, Canberra, September 2005.
Slides (pdf, 1.7 MB) Slides 8up (ps.gz, 690 KB)
Probabilistic Data Generation for Deduplication and Data Linkage
Peter Christen
Presentation at the Sixth International Conference on Intelligent Data Engineering and Automated Learning (IDEAL'05), Brisbane, July 2005.
Slides (pdf, 704 KB) Slides (ps.gz, 269 KB) Slides 8up (pdf, 677 KB) Slides 8up (ps.gz, 272 KB)
Probabilistic Deduplication, Data Linkage and Geocoding
Peter Christen
Presentation at the DAMA Canberra Chapter, June 2005.
Slides 8up (pdf, 2.7 MB) Slides 8up (ps.gz, 1.3 MB)
Probabilistic Deduplication, Record Linkage and Geocoding
Peter Christen
Guest lecture for MATH1500: ANU Computational Science Undergraduate Seminar, ANU, May 2005.
Slides 8up (pdf, 2.1 MB) Slides 8up (ps.gz, 989 KB)
A very Short Introduction to Data Mining
Peter Christen
Guest lecture for COMP3420: Database Systems, ANU, May 2005.
Slides 8up (pdf, 74 KB) Slides 8up (ps, 136 KB) Slides 1up (pdf, 88 KB)
Febrl - A parallel open source record linkage and geocoding system
Peter Christen
Presentation at the Data Linkage Workshop, Australian Bureau of Statistics, Canberra, April 2005.
Slides 8up (pdf, 2.4 MB) Slides 8up (ps.gz, 1.2 MB)
A Probabilistic Deduplication, Record Linkage and Geocoding System
Peter Christen and Tim Churches
Presentation at the ARC Health Data Mining workshop, University of South Australia, April 2005.
Slides 4up (pdf, 854 KB) Slides 4up (ps.gz, 389 KB) Slides (pdf, 885 KB) Slides (ps.gz, 386 KB)

2004

A Probabilistic Geocoding System based on a National Address File
Peter Christen, Tim Churches and Alan Willmore
Presentation at the Australasian Data Mining Conference, Cairns, December 2004.
Slides 4up (pdf, 1.6 MB) Slides 4up (ps.gz, 752 KB) Slides (pdf, 1.6 MB) Slides (ps.gz, 751 KB)
Febrl - A parallel open source data linkage and geocoding system
Peter Christen
Presentation at the Open Source Workshop, Australian Bureau of Statistics, Canberra, July 2004.
Slides 4up (pdf, 1.3 MB) Slides 4up (ps.gz, 595 KB)
A Parallel Open Source Data Linkage System
Peter Christen, Tim Churches and Markus Hegland
Presentation at the 8th PAKDD'04 (Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining), Sydney, May 2004.
Slides (pdf, 656 KB) Slides 4up (pdf, 638 KB)
Blind Data Linkage using n-gram Similarity Comparisons
Tim Churches and Peter Christen
Presentation at the 8th PAKDD'04 (Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining), Sydney, May 2004.
Slides (pdf, 510 KB) Slides 4up (pdf, 501 KB)
Sparse Grid Approximation of Radial Basis Functions -- an Application of Concentration
Markus Hegland and Paola Pozzi
Geometric Aspects of Functional Analysis, Victoria International Conference, Wellington 9--13 February 2004
Slides (pdf, 104 KB)

2003

Sparse Grids and the Analysis of High Dimensional Large Scale Data
Markus Hegland
International Conference in Imaging Science and Information Processing, IMS/NUS Singapore 15.-19. December 2003
Slides (pdf, 2.1 MB)
Algorithms for Association Rules
Markus Hegland
Tutorial in the Program Mathematics and Computation in Imaging Science and Information Processing of the Instute for Mathematical Sciences, NUS, Singapore 10.-12. December 2003.
Slides (pdf, 323 KB)
Mining Geographical Data with Sparse Grids
Markus Hegland and Shawn Laffan
ADM'03 The Australasian Data Mining Workshop
8 December 2003, Lakeside Hotel, Canberra.
Slides (pdf, 4.7 MB)
Data Linkage for Bioinformatics
Peter Christen
Invited specialist talk at the BioInfoSummer: AMSI Summer Symposium in Bioinformatics, ANU, Canberra, 2nd December 2003.
Slides (pdf, 462 KB) Slides 4up (pdf, 453 KB) Slides 4up (ps.gz, 211 KB)
Flexible and Computationally Efficient Methods for Statistical Learning in Bioinformatics Using Sparse Grids
Markus Hegland
BioInfoSummer: AMSI Summer Symposium in Bioinformatics, ANU, Canberra, 2nd December 2003.
Slides (pdf, 206 KB)
Parallelisation of Sparse Grids for Large Scale Data Analysis
J. Garcke, M. Hegland, O. Nielsen
Presentation in WoPLA'03: Workshop on Parallel Linear Algebra, International Conference of Computational Science (ICCS 2003), Melbourne, 2-4th June 2003.
Slides (pdf, 595 KB)
Unsupervised learning techniques in data mining
Markus Hegland
Presentation at the Machine Learning Summer School 2003, Australian National University, Canberra, 6 Feb 2003.
Slides (pdf, 1403 KB)

2002

Probabilistic Name and Address Cleaning and Standardisation
Peter Christen, Tim Churches and Justin Xi Zhu
Presentation at the Australasian Data Mining Workshop, Canberra, December 2002.
Slides 4up (ps.gz, 345 KB) Slides 4up (pdf, 764k KB)
How Fast is '-fast'? Performance Analysis of KDD Applications using Hardware Performance Counters on UltraSPARC-III
Adam Czezowski and Peter Christen
Presentation at the Australasian Data Mining Workshop, Canberra, December 2002.
Slides 4up (ps.gz, 335 KB) Slides 4up (pdf, 745k KB)
High-Performance Computing Techniques for Record Linkage
Peter Christen, Tim Churches, Markus Hegland, Kim Lim, Ole M. Nielsen, Stephen Roberts and Justin Xi Zhu
Presentation at the Australian Health Outcomes Conference (AHOC-2002), Canberra, July 2002.
Slides 4up (ps.gz, 1.6 MB) Slides 4up (pdf, 1.5 MB)
Parallel Techniques for High-Performance Record Linkage (Data Matching)
Peter Christen
Seminar at the ANU Department of Computer Science, Canberra, June 2002.
Slides (ps.gz, 532 KB) Slides (pdf, 1.2 MB) Slides 4up (ps.gz, 535 KB) Slides 4up (pdf, 1.1 MB)
Parallel Computing Techniques for High-Performance Probabilistic Record Linkage
Peter Christen, Tim Churches, Markus Hegland, Kim Lim, Ole M. Nielsen and Stephen Roberts
Presentation at the Symposium on Health Data Linkage, Sydney, March 2002.
Slides (ps.gz, 1.5 MB) Slides (pdf.gz, 414 KB) Slides (pdf, 654 KB)
Algorithms for Association Rules
Markus Hegland
Machine Learning Summer School 2002, RSISE, Australian National University, February 2002.
Slides (pdf.gz, 292 KB)
Performance Analysis of KDD Applications using Hardware Event Counters
Peter Christen and Adam Czezowski
Presentation at the CAP (ANU/Fujitsu) Workshop 2002, Kawasaki, Japan, February 2002.
Slides (ps.gz, 57 KB) Slides (pdf.gz, 66 KB)
Least Squares Problems and Sparse Grids
Ole Nielsen
ANZIAM'2002, the 37th Applied Mathematics Conference, Canberra, February 2002.
Slides (pdf.gz, 465 KB)

2001

Choices, Life and Data Mining - Making Sense of a Degree in Maths and Computer Science
Ole Nielsen
Lecture series in computational mathematics for first year students at the ANU, October 2001.
Slides (pdf.gz, 2.8 MB)
Introduction and Overview of Data Mining Techniques
Markus Hegland
Australasian Epidemiological Association, 10th Annual Scientific Meeting, Sydney, September 2001.
Slides (ps.gz, 364 KB) Slides (pdf.gz, 396 KB)
Exploration of Health Data
Ole Nielsen
Australasian Epidemiological Association, 10th Annual Scientific Meeting, Sydney, September 2001.
Slides (ps.gz, 326 KB) Slides (pdf.gz, 357 KB)
High Performance Computing and Data Mining
Peter Christen
Australasian Epidemiological Association, 10th Annual Scientific Meeting, Sydney, September 2001.
Slides (ps.gz, 963 KB) Slides (pdf.gz, 747 KB)
DMtools - Open Source Software for Database Mining
Peter Christen
Workshop on Database Support for KDD at the PKDD'2001 Conference, Freiburg, Germany, September 2001.
Slides (ps.gz, 284 KB) Slides (pdf.gz, 435 KB)
Predictive Models for Large-scale High-dimensional Data
Markus Hegland
EPI-SIG Health Data Mining Seminar, Australian Museum, Sydney, May 2001.
Slides (ps.gz, 659 KB) Slides (pdf.gz, 666 KB)
Exploration of Health Data
Ole Nielsen
EPI-SIG Health Data Mining Seminar, Australian Museum, Sydney, May 2001.
Slides (ps.gz, 296 KB) Slides (pdf.gz, 338 KB)
High Performance Computing and Data Mining
Peter Christen
EPI-SIG Health Data Mining Seminar, Australian Museum, Sydney, May 2001.
Slides (ps.gz, 1035 KB) Slides (pdf.gz, 841 KB)
Data Mining with Python
Ole Nielsen
9th International Python Conference, Long Beach, California, March 2001.
Slides (pdf, 210 KB)

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