Big Data – The programme is now online!

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Please, visit http://cros-portal.eu/content/big-data-event-2014 for additional information on the ESS Big Data Event – Rome, 31 March – 1 April 2014.

The event will include expert lectures on the themes:

  • Opportunities and methodological challenges of Big Data for official statistics
  • Big Data technologies and platforms for official statistics as well as highly interactive parallel sessions aiming to tackle issues identified in the Scheveningen Memorandum regarding topics such as:
    • Strategic programming and planning – How to elaborate a transition plan to integrate Big Data in Official Statistics production
    • Learning, development and Human Resources – How to elaborate university curricula for tomorrow’s Data Scientists? How to train today’s statisticians and IT specialists so as to make them prepared to cope with the data deluge?
    • IT – Which platforms are useful for managing Big Data for official statistics
    • Methodology

The draft Programme is now online at: http://www.cros-portal.eu/content/big-data-event-2014-programme.

Big Data Event

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Modernization of European Official Statistics through Big Data methodologies and the best practices: ESS Big Data Event, is planned in Rome (Italy) for 31 March-1 April 2014.
The Event will be organised by Eurostat with the support of DevStat (as a leader) in consortium with ISTAT, Dialogic, Verbivis and the Fachhochschule Nordwestschweiz Hochschule.

In many sectors of society, Big Data is playing an increasingly important role. In the private sector, Big Data offers many companies the opportunity to increase their efficiency, for example by giving greater insight into customer demand. While there does not seem to be one single definition of what Big Data is (or is not) there seems to be a consensus that Big Data may be of real interest for Official Statistics.

For further information, please visit: http://cros-portal.eu/content/big-data-event-2014

European Modernisation Workshop 2014

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The European modernisation Workshop, organised around the ESSnet and ESS.VIP programmes took place in Valencia on 23-24 January 2014. The workshop was organised by Eurostat with the support of a project consortium headed by DevStat.

The workshop was open to all colleagues in the ESS interested in work and results of the the ESSnet and ESS.VIP programmes.

Themes discussed during the Workshop included various aspects of the ESS.VIP and ESSnet programmes:

  1. Implementation of ESSnet results across the ESS
  2. Collaboration – collaborating within ESSnet projects.
  3. New opportunities for participation in ESSnet projects

The Workshop was a complete success: Valencia received more than 90 participants from 28 different countries and more than 48 presentations took place.

At DevStat we are now preparing our next Event: Modernization of European Official Statistics through Big Data methodologies and the best practices: ESS Big Data Event Roma March 2014.

Training on the 2008 System of National Accounts

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devstat_training-system-nat-acc_2008DevStat has participated in the organization of the training activity coordinated by The United Nations Economic Commission for Africa, in cooperation with Eurostat, “Training on the 2008 System of National Accounts” in the Islamic Republic of Mauritania from the 21st to 23rd January 2014.

The purpose of the training was to improve participants’ knowledge about the 2008 SNA and its implementation.

This activity was organized within the framework of the multi-annual project “Essential System of National Accounts (SNA): Methodological support and tools in the context of cooperation” funded by Eurostat. DevStat was granted with this 3-year contract in 2010.

Training course on measuring the administrative burden in Romania

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devstat_training_bucharestJosé CERVERA, Director of DevStat, run a training course on the statistical information on the business environment, and in particular on the measurement of the administrative burden for Romanian enterprises in Bucharest (10-12 February). The course was part of a technical assistance programme to the Ministry of Economy, Trade and the Business Environment and follows a survey to companies designed by DevStat. It was attended by about 20 participants from the Ministry of Economy, the Ministry and Labour, the National Statistical Institute, the National Commission for Prognosis and the General Secretariat of the Government. DevStat experts have been providing technical asssistance since 2004 to the Romanian institutions since 2004, in particular responsible for the imrpovement of the business environment. The major contribution was the preparation of the “Annual Report on the SME Sector in Romania” for several years between 2004 and 2010.