Learnings

The Code provides producers of official statistics with the detailed practices they must commit to when producing and releasing official statistics.

This 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.

This 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.

The 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.

The roadmap was agreed at Sprint II of the Technical Delivery Board, March 2019.

The learning output from the Scanner Data Task Team.

In 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.

These 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.

The focus of this year’s conference is on the use of Data Science for official statistics, in particular the use of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning. In addition to the creation of Big Data centers next to the National Statistical Offices (NSOs), for example in the Republic of Korea or in the Netherlands, NSOs have started creating Data Science Campuses (for example in UK, Rwanda an UAE). What do these centers do? In general, these centers act as R&D centers, which develop and test new methods. They also have an educational program usually in cooperation with some universities.

This Conference will cover the use of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning for official statistics.

This 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.