SAcommunity Volunteers & Interns

Adelaide University Internship Experience - Yi Han

Welcome Yi Han!
Yi Han joined our SAcommunity Data Analytics Team for his University of Adelaide SET (Sciences, Engineering and Technology) Internship for his Masters of Data Science Trimester 1, 2024: 23 January 2024 - 22 May 2024.

He completed a 280 hour internship onsite with SAcommunity at the Connecting Up Office, Infoxchange on 22 May 2024. Later Yi returned as a volunteer, attending around his other commitments from 17 September - 26 November 2024, and again in March to May 2025 and recently in August 2025. Welcome back Yi!

Adelaide University Internship Experience and Industry Project - Mostafa Didar Mahdi

Welcome Mostafa!
Mostafa Didar Mahdi joined our SAcommunity Data Analytics Team for his University of Adelaide SET (Sciences, Engineering and Technology) Internship for his Master of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Trimester 1 & 2, 2024: 23 January 2024 -  22 July 2024. He completed a 280 hour internship onsite with SAcommunity at the Connecting Up Office, Infoxchange for 3 days (22.5 hours) a week for ~14 weeks around his classes and remotely offsite for the second half of his Internship and Industry Project. 

Adelaide University Internship Experience - Anju Odedara

Welcome Anju!
Anju Odedara joined our SAcommunity Data Analytics Team for her University of Adelaide SET (Sciences, Engineering and Technology) Internship for her Master of Data Science Trimester 1, 2024: 23 January 2024 -  22 April 2023.

She completed a 280 hour internship onsite with SAcommunity at the Connecting Up Office, Infoxchange for 3 days (22.5 hours) a week for ~14 weeks around her classes.

Adelaide University Internship Experience and Industry Project - Violet Zewei You

Welcome Violet!
Violet Zewei You joined our SAcommunity Data Analytics Team for her University of Adelaide SET (Sciences, Engineering and Technology) Internship for her Masters of Computing and Innovation Science Trimester 1, 2024: 23 January 2024 - 27 March 2024.

She completed a 140 hour internship onsite with SAcommunity at the Connecting Up Office, Infoxchange for 2 days (15 hours) a week for ~10 weeks around her classes.

My Volunteer Experience - Chris Baldwin

Welcome Chris!
Chris Baldwin joined our SAcommunity Information Team as a volunteer, beginning with the team this year on the 13 September 2023. He is a recently retired senior Naval Officer who has served in the Royal Australian Navy for 45 years.
 
He attends for ~4 hours a week onsite at the Connecting Up Office, joining several of our team members in the SAcommunity program with extensive work/life experience: Rex Porter, Flavia, David Webb, Malcolm and Stathis Avramis.

My Volunteer Experience - Malcolm

Malcolm's 10 years of loyal service was recognised at the All Staff Town Hall on 2 November 2023. Congratulations!

SAcommunity wanted to highlight our affection for 'the old guard' our experienced and established SAcommunity veterans. People who make up our core team, return regularly each week to volunteer and keep the service running. They assist in decision-making, idea development and implementation, check and create processes, and critically, help our new volunteers and interns find their feet. We felt we were more than overdue to introduce, acknowledge and thank some of our team members. 

Our Volunteer Malcolm 

My Volunteer Experience - Daisy Fangqiang Shan

Welcome Daisy!
Daisy Fangqiang Shan joined our Data Analytics Team as a volunteer, whilst she studies her Masters at University beginning with the team this year on the 20 September 2023.
 
She attends for ~4 hours a week onsite at the Connecting Up Office joining several of her other classmates in the SAcommunity program: Thiya Shiye Jin and Alice Jinye Zeng.

Exploration of Power BI Tools - Kane Hengchuan Zhao

Exploring Power BI with Python and more useful visualisation tools, along with useful open data website sources to obtain data.

Intern Kane Hengchuan Zhao has been assisting the Data Analytics Team with capacity building, by exploring and documenting the various coding, tools and methods that can be used when presenting data for councils in Power BI. This allows for better visual representation and greater data insight generation when using the SAcommunity open dataset.



1. Building Pages Using Python

01. Prerequisites

You need to download Python and Power BI Desktop and then follow the instruction of Run Python scripts in Power BI Desktop.

Kangaroo Island Council Project - Kane Hengchuan Zhao

Step by step details for creating maps of community services operating within councils

Intern Kane Hengchuan Zhao has extended his Data Analytics Team project report on SAcommunity listed services operating in the Kangaroo Island council area. Specifically by mapping services in Microsoft Power BI through adding an ArcGIS for Power BI map visualisation, allowing new insights through geospatial data.

Kane has documented these processes as part of capacity building for the Data Analytics Team below:


1.Building a Map for the Council dataset

 

01. Exporting Data

 

1. Export data from SACommunity export. We need to click 'Data.Gov.au export' and select the council you choose. And then click export in the buttom of the page.

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