Stephen McAteer

Father of two, husband of one. Senior Manager, Data Science at the Victorian Auditor-General’s Office. PhD in mathematical physics. Long suffering Bombers supporter.

This blog is a showcase of data science work carried out by me and teams I’ve led … and a bunch of other random stuff besides.

In this audit, we used data envelopment analysis to investigate the efficiencies of council libraries. The inputs included library FTE and collection size, and outputs included number of loans, opening hours and program attendance. We were able to draw conclusions about the relative efficiencies of library service delivery models.

See the full report for details of the analysis and findings.

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