Learnings
Trusted learning material and courses on Big Data statistics
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Learning Code of Practice for StatisticsCost: FREEMore details
The Code provides producers of official statistics with the detailed practices they must commit to when producing and releasing official statistics.
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Learning Earth Observations for Official StatisticsCost: FREEMore detailsThis handbook, written by members of the United Nations Task Team on Satellite Imagery and Geospatial Data, provides a guide for National Statistical Offices considering using satellite imagery (known as earth observations) data for official statistics.
This is a white cover publication, pre-edited text subject to official editing and subject to further consultation.
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Learning Faster indicators of UK economic activityCost: FREEMore detailsThis paper summarises the initial work we have carried out, exploring 3 datasets: HMRC UK Value Added Tax (VAT) returns, ship tracking data from automated identification systems (AIS) for UK waters, and road traffic sensor data for England.
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Learning Handbook on the use of Mobile Phone data for Official StatisticsCost: FREEMore detailsThe guide composes of four chapters (Applications, Data sources, Access to mobile phone data and partnership models, Methods) but also contains country case studies in the Annex.
Draft handbook.
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Learning Shipping: Faster indicators of UK economic activityCost: FREEMore detailsIn this paper, we present an initial exploration of the use of ship movements around the UK. Two new monthly shipping indicators have been derived from Automatic Identification System (AIS) data, the international system for tracking ship movements.
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Learning Template - Wardley MapsCost: FREEMore detailsThese are the Wardley Map source files we used to create the UN Global Platform Handbook on IT Strategy. The maps are available in Google Slides format.
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Learning UN Global Platform - Handbook on Information Technology StrategyCost: FREEMore detailsThis handbook covers the development of your IT strategy using Wardley Maps to predict the future, understand which methodologies are best suited to developing and delivery information management systems.
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Learning UN Privacy Preserving Techniques HandbookCost: FREEMore detailsIn this UN handbook, we define specific goals for privacy-preserving computation for public good in two salient use cases: giving NSOs access to new sources of (sensitive) Big Data; and enabling Big Data Collaborations Across Multiple NSOs.
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Learning UNSD Mobile Phone Data training - Bogota 2017Cost: FREEMore detailsThe guide composes of four chapters (Applications, Data sources, Access to mobile phone data and partnership models, Methods) but also contains country case studies in the Annex.
Draft handbook.