ARDC and Partners - QCIF, Intersect, NCI, TPAC, VICNode and Pawsey have joined forces to organise a monthly Tech Talk virtual and face-to-face meeting. The Tech Talks are a monthly community gathering to showcase uses and discuss the technical side of Australia's research infrastructure.

For more and latest information about this Monthly Tech Talk event, please visit the event page at the MeetUp.

Topic - Visualising Data

Data visualisation is one of powerful tools for analysing data - for identifying patterns, finding correlations, and spotting trends and anomalies etc.. Data visualisation is of more importance when we deal with big and multiple dimensional data, where it is almost impossible to comprehend data or find linkages between data points in a spreadsheet or in other quantitative formats.

This is the second time the TechTalk has the topic data visualisation. We will have two speakers to showcase their data visualisation tool.

Speakers:

1. Vincent Fazio, CSIRO

Title: AuScope 3D Geological Models Portal

Abstract: The AuScope 3D Geomodels portal enables you to explore a wide range of geological models from all around Australia in 3D. The models are supported by links to other informative sources, namely AuScope Portal, Geoscience Australia, and the state and territory geological surveys' websites. In this presentation I will outline the main features of the portal from a user’s perspective and ‘lift the hood’ in order to reveal how its internals function.

Bio: I am a software developer working at CSIRO, in the Platform Informatics Team, within the Mineral Resources Division. I have worked in a wide variety of different industries including telecommunications, defence, electronic consumer products, as well as more recently in the research sector. My work with the Platform Informatics Team involves designing, building and maintaining tools for use by geological researchers. We work in collaboration with AuScope Ltd under the AVRE (AuScope Virtual Research Environment) program.
Contact: vincent.fazio@csiro.au

2. Dr. Gillian Arrighi, University of Newcastle

Title: Visualising Newcastle’s heritage-listed Victoria Theatre: new challenges for traditional research

Abstract: ‘Visualising the Victoria’ is part of a national research project (under the auspice of AusStage) that is seeking to find new ways of understanding lost theatre spaces through digital visualisation of historic/archival data. Theatre is a visual and aural medium that is experienced through the body of the present observer in real time. Seeking to preference the visual/aural experience over text-based outcomes, this project is predicated on the concept that theatre buildings can be ‘read’ and re-understood as places of shared cultural meaning.

Built in 1891, Newcastle’s heritage-listed Victoria Theatre is the oldest theatre building in NSW and the third-oldest theatre structure in Australia. Since the early years of the 20th century it has undergone numerous renovations and makeovers that removed most traces of the original. The ‘stage house’ is of the same dimensions as when first built, as is the architectural footprint of the building. The roof of the auditorium was raised in one of the twentieth century renovations, but nothing else appears as it did when the theatre first opened. As a result of the numerous alterations, all intended to ‘modernise’ the theatre and equip it as a hybrid venue for both live performance and movie screening, knowledge about the way the theatre looked inside when it first opened in 1891 has been lost; there are no photographs or drawings of its original stage, proscenium, curtains, auditorium, dress circle and upper gallery, halls, staircases, lighting sources, or the highly coloured neo-Grecian decorations that were a particular feature of the original. Supported by visual materials from various points in the research, this paper explicates the processes of the ‘Visualising the Victoria’ project, a research undertaking that has required the author to move from ‘traditional’ Humanities-based research into the domain of computer-aided design.

Bio: Dr Gillian Arrighi is Senior Lecturer in Creative and Performing Arts in the School of Creative Industries, University of Newcastle, Australia. She has been a researcher on the national AusStage project for 16 years. Her research concerning the late-Victorian heritage-listed Victoria Theatre in Newcastle (1891) has been rendered as an immersive Virtual Reality experience and in other visual formats.

Dr Gillian Arrighi’s extended academic profile is available online at: https://www.newcastle.edu.au/profile/gillian-arrighi

The general purpose of this virtual plus face-to-face meeting is twofold:

1. Provide a national forum for developers working with research data and/or research data management to discuss topics of interest

2. Enable a dialogue between developers and NCRIS facilities

This event is for anyone who wants to know more about tech aspects of data and NCRIS facilities:

• developers

• data scientists

• researchers who are building data tools

• data technologists

• data librarians

How does virtual and face-to-face work?

Tell us which of the 12 hubs you'll be attending (on the next page when you complete this Eventbrite registration.)

• If attending you are highly recommended to physically attend at one of the hubs where feasible. For attendees who are not able to reach a hub, please select "Join Remotely" when registering (see links below). Limited remote attendee spaces.

• First 30 remote attendees in will be emailed the Zoom Meeting ID. Further attendees will be waitlisted and emailed Zoom Meeting ID if space.

• To guarantee attendance, join one of the physical meetings or set up your own location. Min: 4 attendees.

• If you are unable to join on the day remotely, you can access the slides shortly after the event.

If you wish to set up a new hub location for Monthly Tech Talks, please request using the meeting contact below

The talks will take about an hour (3:00pm-4:00 pm AEDT), followed by face-to-face networking and discussion at the 11 hub locations (4:00pm-5:00 pm), facilitated by local hub facilitators:

Sydney: Room G10, Sydney Informatics Hub, Sydney Data Science Hub (J17), 32 Queen St, Chippendale, The University of Sydney

Adelaide: University of Adelaide: Ira Raymond Room, Barr Smith Library, University of Adelaide North Terrace campus. (starts 2.30pm ACST)

Brisbane/Toowoomba:

1. UQ: Room 505, level 5, Axon Building 47, University of Queensland, St Lucia Campus (starts 3.00pm AEST)
2. USQ: Q528B, QBlock, Toowoomba Campus, University of Southern Queensland (starts 3.00pm AEST)

Canberra: Canberra (Australian National University): Meeting room 1, 9 Liversidge Street, Acton, ACT 2601 (starts 3.00pm AEST)

Hobart: CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere: Freycinet Room, Building 1 Reception Level, Castray Esplanade, Battery Point (starts 3.00pm AEST)

Melbourne:
1. Deakin University: Deakin Downtown, 727 Collins Street (starts 3.00pm AEST)
2. Monash University: RB Scotton Rooms, Rm G37 (south-west corner), S.T.R.I.P. 1, 15 Innovation Walk, Monash University Clayton Campus (starts 3:00 pm AEST)
3. La Trobe University, Bundoora: Vislab, Research Commons, La Trobe Library (starts 3.00pm AEST)
4. Victoria University, Footscray: Room A323, Footscray Park Campus (starts 3.00pm AEST)

Perth:
1. CSIRO/ARRC, Rm R2B16 (26 Dick Perry Ave, Kensington) (starts 1.00pm AWST)
2. Edith Cowan University, Building 31, Level 4, Room 439, Joondalup Campus (starts 1.00pm AWST)

Want to know more?

For more information about this Monthly Tech Talk event, please visit the event page at the Tech talk MeetUp.

Contact: richard.ferrers -at- ardc.edu.au or mingfang.wu -at- ardc.edu.au

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