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How data science is helping astronauts prospect for lunar ice

The moon will once again play a crucial role in the space race, but this time as the gatekeeper to the solar system, acting as a link in the planetary supply chain. Ice deposits found in shadowed craters near the poles can act as resource wells for visiting astronauts, providing not only drinking water for humans and crops, but the key component needed to create rocket fuel. By manufacturing propellant...

New algorithms help data scientists connect data points from multiple sources to solve high-risk problems

Fraud and cybercrime are highly complex problems that often require immense amounts of connected and extraordinarily dense data to be organised and interpreted. One of the challenges data scientists face when dealing with connected data is how to understand relationships between entities, as opposed to looking at data in silos, to provide a much deeper understanding of the problem. Open source graph...

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How virtual reality and high-performance scientific computing are helping scientists understand how COVID-19 behaves

On Thursday February 20th, Dr Michael Kuiper stepped into cryo-EM 2019-nCoV spike protein structure of COVID-19. The virus had infiltrated a protein within its host, utilising its uniquely virulent composition to take over the individual’s biological processes, transforming a once healthy cell into a mass of viral particles. “See this? This model shows the same lysine and tyrosine residues as the SARS...

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NSW Digital Twin launches

Launched late last month, the NSW Spatial Digital Twin will improve the state’s infrastructure, services, and economy. The Digital Twin will enable planners, policymakers and developers to make more informed decisions and reduce costs by creating new efficiencies, explained the Minister for Customer Service NSW, Victor Dominello, at the Sydney-held event. “With this technology, it changes everything,”...

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Making Machine Learning User Friendly

Nhung Nguyen, UX Designer at CSIRO’s Data61, on making graph machine learning a user-friendly experience. As a User Experience designer at CSIRO’s Data61, I analyse all aspects of a user’s interaction with a company, its services, its product, and online platform. What drives us is designing meaningful products that are intuitive, meet user needs, and...

Tackling Drought with Data Visualisation

Australia’s drought has become a key issue, in 2018. A long stretch of dry weather during Australia’s April to October growing season is putting pressure on farmers and communities across the country. Part of addressing this challenge involves gathering and interpreting disparate pieces of data to inform decisions. Recently, at Old Parliament House in Canberra...

Molecular visualisation with Dr Michael Kuiper

What’s the process behind water turning into ice? Or salt dissolving? Or the makeup of air? Dr Michael Kuiper, a computational modeller with the Molecular and Materials Modelling group at CSIRO’s Data61 is an expert in the field, specialising in bio-moecular interactions of proteins, DNA and small drug molecules. We’ve included some of his work...