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,
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...
From: http://live.worldbank.org/what-happens-when-big-data-meets-official-statistics-live-webcastSHAREWednesday, December 19th 2012 2.30 - 4.00pm ET - World Bank HQ 02:30 – 04:00 ET or convert timeWith the advent of the open data ...
28 Friday Dec 2012 Posted by Armin GrossenbacherThe European Commissionopened its Open Data Portal some days ago.Powered by CKAN..Most of the 5811 datasets (97%) are statistical ones provided by Eurostat..‘Top Publi...
Open Data Institute officially launches | RSSeNews:December 5, 2012 The Open Data Institute (ODI) was opened by cabinet ministers Francis Maude and David Willetts yesterday (4 December 2012), in a week when the Institute also announced two major affili...
The top 20 data visualisation tools | .net magazine17th Sep 2012 | 09:17From simple charts to complex maps and infographics, Brian Suda's round-up of the best – and mostly free – tools has everything you need to bring your data to life.
