Machine Learning

Progress

• The project membership and distribution list kept growing. The membership now stands at 35 participants from 16 organisations and 13 countries. The distribution list now stands at 18 persons from 8 countries, with Finland recently joining.
• Work is progressing on all work packages and pilot studies. Refer to the documentation on the July meeting held last week. Wiki pages have been setup to document pilot studies as they are executed. See: Summary documentation - C&C, Summary documentation - E&I and Summary documentation - Imagery. The pages were created last week and contain limited information for now.
• In response to suggestions provided by the Exec Board at last month's meeting and the ones before, a Related international activities wiki page was setup to list international activities and their potential links to the ML project. Most of these activities have at least on ML team member or person on the ML distribution list.
• Initial information on the Machine Learning project - Second sprint was communicated to team members. The sprint will be held in Belgrade, Serbia, from September 18 to 20. Some e-mail invitations have been sent. 
• The project continues to accumulate papers related to the use of ML for statistics. They are available at the ML Reference documents wiki page. They are listed  in a manner to direct users to papers that refer the most to certain key themes of the ML pilot studies.
• A solution was found to enable members to share code.
• An introduction to the ML project presented at the ModernStats workshop in Geneva was attended by over 50 people and was very well received. Plenty of further discussion took place during the coffee breaks and over dinner. This led to Statistics Finland joining the ML distribution list.

Strategic Communication Framework phase 2

Progress

Next Steps

Risks and Issues