From: http://www.bruegel.org/nc/blog/detail/article/1059-blogs-review-big-data-aggregates-and-individuals/#.UVL84BxhWCkBig Data is relevant to the production, relevance and reliability of key official statistics such as GDP and inflation.Michael Horrig...
From: http://unstats.un.org/unsd/statcom/statcom_2013/seminars/Big_Data/default.htmlFriday Seminar on Emerging IssuesBig Data for Policy,Development and Official Statistics22 February 2013, 10:00 am - 1:00 pm, 3:00 - 6:00 pmConference Rm. 2, Tempo...
From: http://www.cros-portal.eu/content/ntts-2013-programmeSlides: http://www.cros-portal.eu/sites/default/files//15A02_214_0.pdfMonica Scannapieco1, Antonino Virgillito2, Diego Zardetto31Istat - Italian National Institute of Statistics, e-ma...
If you're not able to attend NTTS 2013 in Brussels, you may still follow the conference online.All sessions in the main auditorium (including the opening session, the closing session and all keynote speeches) will be transmitted via live webstreaming o...
From: http://uncsd.iisd.org/news/un-statistical-commission-seminar-discusses-big-data-challenges-and-opportunities/IISD 26 February 2013: The UN Statistical Commission held a seminar on “Big Data for Policy, Development and Official Statistics,
Open Data: the state of the European Union from ePSI Platform
FROM sTORAGECRAFT: FEBRUARY 13, 2013 CASEY MORGAN NO COMMENTSBig Data presents a lot of opportunities for information discovery. The world has begun creating billions of bytes of data, which can be analyzed and ut...
From: January 14, 2013 NewsPrint PDFAt its conference last year, the RSS hosted a talk by Google’s chief economist, Hal Varian.Footage of his talk is now available to view here:In his talk, Hal outlined how statistics are used at Google in ...
From: 09/01/2013 - The OECD today announced the winner of its first-ever global data visualisation challengeThe challenge, conducted in concert with Visualizing.org, was launched in September 2012 to solicit visualisations based on the OECD’s da...
From: http://www.theglobalobservatory.org/analysis/380-can-big-data-from-cellphones-help-prevent-conflict.htmlby emmanuel letouzé , Thursday, November 08, 2012Data from social media and Ushahidi-style crowdsourcing platforms have emerged as possible w...
