March 18, 2018 bogdan

Wednesday, 10 October

Agenda

11:30-13:00 Registration
12:00-13:00 Welcome coffee
13:00-13:30 Welcome address by:
Tudorel ANDREI, President of National Institute of Statistics of Romania
Marianne THYSSEN, European Commissioner for Employment, Social Affairs, Skills and Labour Mobility (video)
13:30-13:50 Keynote speech 
Ana Birchall,
Vice-Prime Minister of Romania for the implementation of strategic partnerships
13:50 Session 1: Big data and official statistics: state of play
Chair: Tudorel Andrei, President of NIS-RO
13:50-14:50 Strategic developments at European and UN level

  • Embracing Big Data within the ESS: Joining forces for higher impact (Eurostat)
    Presentation
  • The ESSnet Big Data: highlights of results and outlook for future work (CBS, NL)
    Abstract | Paper | Presentation
  • Strategic developments at global level (GWG Big Data for Official Statistics)
    Abstract | Paper | Presentation

Questions and discussion
14:50-15:30 National experiences I

  • Data Integration challenges – ICT survey and web scraped data from enterprise websites (ISTAT, IT)
    Abstract | Paper | Presentation
  • Using Web scrapping techniques for price statistics – the Romanian experience (NIS, RO)
    Abstract | Paper | Presentation
  • Experiences and best practice in developing new production processes for statistical products: Price statistics – the case of Slovenia (SURS, SI)
    Abstract | Paper | Presentation
15:30-15:50 Coffee break
15:50-17:00 National experiences II

  • Towards a methodological framework for the integration of mobile phone data in the production of official statistics (INE, ES/NIS, RO)
    Abstract | Paper | Presentation
  • Understanding socio-spatial segregation in French cities with mobile phone data (INSEE, FR)
    Abstract | Paper | Presentation 
  • The application of network theory in the official statistics (KSH, HU)
    Abstract | Paper |  Presentation
  • New developments on online cash registers and road traffic data (KSH, HU)
    Abstract | Paper |  Presentation

Questions and discussion
17:00-18:30 Addressing key challenges for business innovation

  • Big data to improve policy and decision making: The Experience of Statistics Netherlands (CBS, NL)
    Abstract | Paper | Presentation
  • The SSP Lab: The very young experience of the French NSI (INSEE, FR)
    Abstract | Paper |  Presentation
  • Skills and capacity building for big data in official statistics: the current landscape of teaching data science in Poland (Statistics Poland)
    Presentation
  • Key factors for obtaining access to big data (StatBel, BE)
    Abstract | Paper |  Presentation

Questions, discussion and final conclusions by the chair