This week, we're exhibiting at the 60th World Statistics Congress in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil...
Usability the Key to Truly Open Data
What's the most dangerous time of the week to be out on the roads? Are they getting safer or more dangerous? The answers might surprise you...
Space-Time Research Around the World
We’ll be speaking and exhibiting at some upcoming events. We’d love to chat to you about what our solutions could do for you...
ABS Investment a Win for Australia
In last week’s federal budget, the Australian government announced a major investment in the Australian Bureau of Statistics. This means that, contrary to media speculation earlier this year, the 2016 census will go ahead as planned....
Come and Visit Us…
Space-Time Research will be exhibiting at the Connect Show 2015 in Melbourne next week. Come and visit us to learn what our data analytics, dissemination and visualisation solutions could do for you....
Census debate needs to expand to cover the future of the ABS
There is presently considerable discussion and reporting about the future of Australia’s national census, sparked by suggestions to change from a five to 10-year cycle....
Open data: analysis more important than volume
Open data initiatives being embraced by governments around the world will generate major economic and social benefits, but the process must extend beyond simply releasing gigabytes of raw data. Each year, governments collect vast quantities of information as a by-product of programs undertaken and services provided. The resulting data sets cover everything from population...
Confidentiality for the Big Data World
In part one of this series, we looked at how many organisations have failed to learn lessons from the privacy mistakes of the past. When the Australian Bureau of Statistics wanted to release their census data online to the public, they were faced with a problem: how could they safely allow people to query...
The Search for Privacy in a Big Data World
In the late 90s, a Massachusetts government agency released medical records for every state government employee, free of charge, to the research community. At the time of this early open data initiative, state governor William Weld went on record to say that the confidentiality of everyone involved was protected. After all, they had removed...
SuperSTAR 9 is Now Available
We are delighted to announce that the latest release of our SuperSTAR suite is now available. SuperSTAR 9 is packed with new features and improvements designed to make it easier than ever for you to explore your data, build queries and visualise the results....
An Open Standard for Sharing Statistics across the Globe
Many organisations are required to share statistical data on a daily basis, both as part of regular operations and in response to ad hoc information requests. This data often forms the basis of important proposals and decisions. There are significant costs and exposure to risk if data is misinterpreted, both for data providers, who...
Colourful Insights into your Data
One of the most common user tasks when working with tabular data is identifying and quantifying correlations and associations. The forthcoming SuperCROSS 9.0 release includes a brand new feature for helping you to find and explore these associations: ColourMatrix. ColourMatrix, which replaces the old ColourVIEW feature, offers a simple visual way to identify and...