Pieter Demmers joins QCIF as Data Innovation Program Manager
Pieter Demmers has joined QCIF.
Winter School 2020 cancelled due to COVID-19
This year’s Brisbane-based Winter School has been cancelled.
Galaxy Australia contributes to global research effort into COVID-19
Galaxy teams from Australia, Europe and the US show how COVID-19 genome data can be shared, analysed and reproduced.
New investment to tackle the data challenges of bioscience researchers
An ARDC investment will enable expansion of the Australian BioCommons ‘Bring Your Own Data (BYOD)’ platform.
March 2020
QCIF is supporting a CSIRO and Griffith-led project coordinating the use of species distribution models across government.
Jupyter Notebooks for live code collaboration
Working on code and want to collaborate? Jupyter Notebooks are a great way of sharing live code.
Got spreadsheet or Web-scraped data you need to clean up or transform?
Perhaps you have collected survey data where people have given multiple responses that mean the same thing, or may have responded multiple times.
Australia’s central site for public data
The Australian government has created Data.gov.au, an easy way to find, access and reuse public data sets. This site is to encourage public access to and reuse of public data, acting as a central site to discover public data, across multiple government entities.
Controlling access to data: A health data case study
A University of Southern Queensland researcher solved a health data project’s issues of storing and sharing non-open, non-sensitive data by using QCIF’s QRIScloud and Nextcloud services.
Tania Phillips, a Research Assistant at USQ’s Institute for Resilient Regions in the Centre for Health, Informatics and Economic Research, is part of a team looking at how to reduce the numbers of people with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) presenting at Queensland hospital emergency departments. COPD includes illnesses such as lung disease, chronic bronchitis and emphysema.
February 2020
John Bancroft will become QCIF’s new CEO as of Monday, 9 March 2020.