“This is really a marathon.” Meet the statistician helping forecast the spread of COVID-19 Globally renowned statistician Professor Rob Hyndman is at the centre of an elite team modelling COVID-19 cases for Australia's leaders and policymakers. Rob J Hyndman Department of Econometrics and Business Statistics How to boost Australian jobs: construction and manufacturing With three possible scenarios for the Australian economy, only one will get us out of recession faster – boost jobs in construction and manufacturing. Heather Anderson Giovanni Caggiano Farshid Vahid-Araghi Benjamin Wong Department of Econometrics and Business Statistics Future predictions: revolutionising the accuracy of business forecasting Anticipating customer demands into the future can be tricky. But a new tool could revolutionise the accuracy of business forecasting. Rob J Hyndman George Athanasopoulos Department of Econometrics and Business Statistics No more poker face: facial recognition could change how we view tennis New technology that captures faces and monitors tennis players’ emotions may be in its early stages, but could be a game changer. Dianne Cook Department of Econometrics and Business Statistics
