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Blue-skies Thinking | Identifying Topics/Opportunities | CONTINIOUS | Ongoing. - We have had a discussion about ChatGPT, and will review a pitch talk on 27th April, along with a pitch related to sharing information on activities related to modernization of statistics. |
Non-Probabilistic Surveys | IN PROGRESS | This work is underway, with its own subgroup. | |
Digital Twins | IN PROGRESS | The work of this subgroup has been paused, but the leader is hoping to resume this activity. | |
Open Source Adoption | IN PROGRESS | Eurostat has agreed to co-run this activity, which may involve a workshop. Kate is looking for volunteers to join this group. | |
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Applying Data Science and Modern Methods | Implementing ML-based Solutions in Data Editing | IN PROGRESS | New members joined, and the team revised a new use case by BFS. They selected interesting topics from the Machine Learning workshop to approach authors and provide use cases. |
Understanding and Selecting Models | IN PROGRESS | The team is discussing the taxonomy template and adding labels to use cases for creating taxonomies/ontologies. The team will discuss label logic in a future meeting. | |
Framework for Responsible AI | IN PROGRESS | The team made progress on guidelines and sub-teams made progress on three of the six pillars. The team suggested sharing short lectures on YouTube to help participants understand the subject better. | |
Other | The group discussed machine learning operations, including platform development, MLOps maturity, and deploying ML models. A future meeting will feature a presentation on MLOps by StatCan. | ||
Capabilities and Communication | Work and Job of the Future | IN PROGRESS | Future of Work change/growth model was proposed and team members are asked to map their organization to the proposed model. Next call is on 26 April. |
Job of the Future: Recruitment and onboarding | IN PROGRESS | This sub-team is working on change/growth model, as part of the main Future of Work team | |
Job of the Future: Reaching Youth | IN PROGRESS | This sub-team is working on change/growth model, as part of the main Future of Work team | |
Data Analytics | IN PROGRESS | Statistics Canada presented on the "Statistics Canada’s Data driven approach to Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion". It was suggested to integrate this approach in the context of the change/growth model. | |
Ethics Management (Data and Business) | IN PROGRESS | Team is planning to prepare Reference book on Business Ethics, that will also include information collected from the Ethics Surveys last year. | |
Communication | IN PROGRESS | Team is also collecting case studies from the various countries on how to work through these communication issues through the lens of inflation. | |
Ethics Workshop 2023 | NOT STARTED | Task Team will discuss this Thursday, if it will be possible to organize Workshop on Ethics in Geneva on 11-13 September 2023. For the moment there is no decision on the topics of the workshop, or it's format. | |
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Supporting Standards | GSIM Revision | IN PROGRESS | Work ongoing as planned, Task Team will soon conclude its work. Clickable and change log for 4 other completed groups (Base, Exchange, Business and Structure) can be found on the Github. Communication paper is currently reviewed by the Task Team. User Guide requires more substantial update due to changes to the model and expected to take a few more weeks to complete. For more details, please check our Github group @ https://github.com/UNECE/GSIMRevision/ |
GSBPM-GAMSO Revision | IN PROGRESS | The Task Team started discussing "bigger" issues based on the feedback received from the community until February. The work started from GSBPM Phase 8 Evaluate. For more details, please check our Github group @ https://github.com/UNECE/GSBPM_GAMSO_Revision/ | |
SDMX-DDI-GSBPM | IN PROGRESS | Work ongoing as planned, working together based on material prepared by Task Team members for different sub-processes of the GSBPM. Given the work of task team includes providing guidelines on the use of SDMX and DDI for non-experts on those implementation standards, it was highlighted that we need to explain concretely how different artefacts are used and where to look for the right information in the respective standard guidelines. For more details please check our Google Doc here. | |
Core Ontology for Official Statistics version 2 | NOT STARTED | Work on COOS version 2 is scheduled to start after the summer break. COOS results are available here: https://linked-statistics.github.io/COOS/coos.html | |
Other | ModernStats Community of Practice: the group launched a new series of online events, inviting speakers, interested members in the community, all linked to the ModernStats models and their actual and pontential uses and users. The first event will take place on 28th April 15:00 CET, focusing on “Modernizing management systems” to discuss about practices to modernize different aspects of management systems (e.g., quality, production process) using ModernStats models. Fore more details on the first event, please check this: ModernStats Community of Practice Integrated view of the ModernStats models: the Supporting Standards Group is preparing the integrated view of the models, following a common logic and structure for the discussions. For more details please check our Google Doc here. The group expects a complete view of the "big picture" of our models that can also guide future developments. The work is carried out on group level, not in a Task Team. The work started with the GSBPM with discussions, now focusing on the GAMSO. Sprint: the group is organising an online sprint on 14 June. Visibility: ISI: the two CPS sessions now a place on the ISI agenda. One session is on Monday (IPS 186 - Challenges Of Modernizing The Production Systems In Official Statistics) and the other one is on Tuesday (IPS 329 - Standards-based modernisation of official statistics: the added value and recent advancements of the ModernStats models), same time. Please visit us if you are in Ottawa in July! Visiblity: new logo! With the help of expertise from INSEE, the Group now has a new logo that we plan to use from now on. The Group has voted with an overwhelming support of 89% for this version over other alternatives. Preview: |
- HLG-MOS, 26 Feburary 2023, New York
- Expert Meeting for Machine Learning for Official Statistics, 5-7 June, Geneva
- Expert Meeting on Statistical Data Collection, 12-14 June 2023, online
- Ethics Workshop, 11-13 September (TBC), Geneva (TBC)
- Expert Meeting on Statistical Data Confidentiality, 26-28 September, Wiesbaden
- Expert Meeting on Dissemination and Communication of Statistics, 9-11 October, Lisbon
- HLG-MOS workshop on the Modernisation of Official Statistics, 20-22 November 2022, Geneva