DaAS has partnered with many Victorian public sector (VPS) organisations. These case studies are examples of the variety and innovation of our partnerships.
Supporting policies putting local jobs first
The problem
The Local Jobs First Policy supports small and medium Victorian businesses compete for government contracts. Monitoring and reporting for the Local Jobs First policy was manual and took a long time.
The solution
DaAS partnered with the Department of Jobs, Skills, Industry and Regions (DJSIR) to create the Policy Intelligence Engine (PIE). PIE simplifies monitoring and reporting for Local Jobs First. It streamlines the old manual spreadsheet process. PIE has reduced the time to prepare six-monthly and annual reports by 75%.
What is PIE?
PIE is a data and analytics platform. It provides consistent and accurate reporting about the Local Jobs First policy. PIE works by:
- bringing data in automatically (ingestion)
- transforming the data
- displaying the data on interactive dashboards.
DJSIR uses insights from PIE to understand and improve the Local Jobs First Policy.
Partnership benefits
DaAS worked as a single, agile team with DJSIR. We shared specialist data skills and knowledge with DJSIR. Building the PIE platform has helped DJSIR easily and safely share insights. The partnership has led to better decisions based on data.
Exploring data for stronger regions
The opportunity
Victoria’s regions help to support the economic growth of the state. Each region has strengths, challenges and opportunities. Regions want to focus on their strengths to be competitive with other parts of the world. The Regional Economic Development Strategies (REDS) help regions do this.
How we could help
Lots of data is available to support the REDS. We partnered with DJSIR to help bring this data to life with interactive dashboards. You can now explore the data visually through graphs and images. Categories help you explore the data, including:
- demographics
- socioeconomic
- employment
- industry
- land use and digital infrastructure.
We also developed guides to help users get the most out of the dashboards. Now government, community and business can see the strengths of each region. This helps them to make better policies and programs to support the regions to thrive.
Visit the Regional Economic Development Strategies website to explore the interactive dashboards yourself.
Early warning of public health risks
The problem
It’s important for the government to know about public health risks as they start to happen. This helps people to respond early. A single emergency department might pick this up if people present with the same symptoms, but this is difficult to see across multiple hospitals.
The solution
DaAS partnered with the Department of Health to develop SynSurv. SynSurv is a world-first system. It processes symptom triage text from emergency departments almost immediately. SynSurv looks for complex patterns in this text using natural language processing. This leads to early alerts of possible public health events.
Analysts, linguists, and experts in IT, medicine, public health, and logistics worked together to build the SynSurv model. We successfully tested the model providing alerts for cases of thunderstorm asthma.
The SynSurv team was recognised for their amazing work as finalists in the Emergency Management category of the Institute of Public Administration Australia (Victoria) Leadership in the Public Sector Awards.
Partner with us
We are always looking for new opportunities for partnerships. We focus on opportunities that:
- will benefit the public
- help government develop new data or digital capabilities
- manage legal, ethical, privacy and human rights concerns about data and digital tools
- don’t have any negative social, environmental or economic impacts.
Contact us via email daas@dgs.vic.gov.au if you’re a government agency with a data or digital challenge. We can work with you to build your data and digital capability.
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