Abstracts

This year's SIG forum features a variety of presentations covering a wide range of topics such as data warehouse, business intelligence, learning analytics, load and budget management, student performance measures, surveys and evaluation, government reporting, policy and many more. The following abstracts provide the previews of what constitute presentations for the event.

• Alice Evans - Leveraging student evaluations for learning analytics
• Amy Wong - Untangling the relationships between assessment outcomes, student evaluations and pedagogical design
• Andy Pleffer and Ram Radhakrishnan - BI meets BAU: Incorporating strategic thinking into everyday research metrics
• Cliff Ashford, Tim Davison and James Mitchell - The AUT Scorecard – Aligning daily decision making with strategic vision
• Adrian Karanfilovski (Craig Napier) - Strengthening BI through the delivery of Learning Analytics at UOW
• Daniel Zamykal and Glenn Harrison - Still at the BI party, and making plenty of new friends!
• Fiona Margetts - Expanded policy horizons – benefits realised from a policy project
• Megan Kek and Robert Wood - A quest for student success: An emerging data framework to determine the contributions of academic learning support opportunities as defined by TEQSA risk assessment framework
• Melanie Reimann - The importance of statistical load forecasting for setting a budget and continual monitoring of performance
• Michael Lane - Sharing the experiences of teaching business analytics in a University course
• Pallavi Khanna - Student Load Planning at the ANU: a demonstration of the TM1 modelling and reporting solution
• Paul Wright, Steven Power and Milly Taylor - Four Magic BI Beans and the Golden Egg
• R.Seneka Arachchi - An Analysis of First Year Undergraduate Student Attrition at Adelaide University
• Peter Kokinakos - Using A Predictive Data Driven Model to Reduce Student Attrition
• Stephen Marshall and Aubrey Jonker - Lifelong Analytics for Education, Research and Employment
• Steve Hitchman and Susan Day - Self Service Data Blending and Analytics – The New Black
• Susan Gibson - A platform for data innovation in the cloud
• Talitha Cornelsen - Expanding Horizons with an Innovative Approach to Within Year Load Projections
• Tim O'Dea - Bringing order to BI chaos…
• Vriti Mehra - Travel reporting: the journey from paper forms to automated processes

Awards

There will be two prizes related to presentations that will be awarded at the forum. These are:

Best DW/BI Session 

This prize will be awarded to the best DW/BI presentation or workshop at the SIG Forum and will be judged by the SIG Forum delegates. The winner will receive a free registration at the next year’s SIG Forum. These prizes will be transferrable upon approved application to the AAIR Executive Committee.

Best Load Management Session 

This prize will be awarded to the best load management presentation or workshop at the SIG Forum and will be judged by the SIG Forum delegates. The winner will receive a free registration at the next year’s SIG Forum. These prizes will be transferrable upon approved application to the AAIR Executive Committee.