UNECE work relating to Big Data
**NEW** March 2016 | Article on the Outcomes of the UNECE Project on Using Big Data for Official Statistics |
| January 2016 | |
| November 2015 | Competency profiles for Big Data teams and team leaders |
| October 2015 | Release of the sandbox prospectus, inviting statistical organisations to participate under the new governance arrangements |
| September 2015 | Project workshop in Ljubljana to review progress and decide on priority source(s) to use to produce statistics by November 2015. |
| June 2015 | Sprint session in Cork produced an options paper on the future of the Sandbox. This paper and its recommendations were approved by the HLG-MOS Executive Board, which oversees the Big Data project. |
| Throughout 2015 | New Big Data project focusing on the Sandbox - New experiments, new data, and a new challenge: "Create a set of internationally comparable statistics based on one or more Big Data sources" |
| April 2015 | Launch of the updated UNECE Big Data Inventory. The inventory replaces the initial inventory and includes all project information collected in the joint UNECE-UNSD survey. |
| March 2015 | Workshop on Big Data, 9 March, Brussels |
| January 2015 | 2014 Big Data project outputs released |
| November 2014 | The HLG and representatives of expert groups review the progress so far on the 2014 Big Data project, and decide to launch a new project for 2015, with the main aim of producing and publishing multi-national statistics from a Big Data source |
| September 2014 | Enhancement of the Big Data project inventory in collaboration with the United Nations Statistics Division and the HLG Modernisation Committee on Products and Sources: a new, more detailed questionnaire is under development with the aim of obtaining a more comprehensive picture of current and planned projects and facilitating exchange of knowledge and experience. |
| August-October 2014 | Preliminary results of the survey "Skills necessary for people working with Big Data in Statistical Organisations". More detailed analysis will be prepared by October 2014. |
| Throughout 2014 | International collaboration project on The Role of Big Data in the Modernisation of Statistical Production - This project, overseen by the High-Level Group for the Modernisation of Official Statistics, is running during 2014, and aims to:
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| June 2013 | Draft classification of types of Big Data |
| March 2013 | Position paper What does Big data mean for official statistics? (March 2013) drafted for the High Level Group for the Modernization of Official Statistics (HLG-MOS). |
This is the public-access wiki space for UNECE work relating to Big Data. It contains information about Big Data activities and events, and links to relevant resources. A separate wiki space exists for those working on the HLG-MOS projects on Big Data in Official Statistics.
Inventory of Big Data projects
The inventory aims to catalogue past, current and planned projects in statistical organisations around the world, that make use of Big Data for the production of official statistics.
Links and Resources
These are just a few of the thousands of Big Data resources available: those which are of greatest relevance to official statistics. Please feel free to add others using the button at the bottom of this section, or notify us.