Communication of statistics in times of fake news In a recent paper Emanuele Baldacci, (Director, Eurostat) and Felicia Pelagalli, (President, InnovaFiducia) deal with the ‘challenges for official statistics of changes in the information market spurred by network technology, data revolution and changes in information consumers’ behaviours’ (p.3) Three scenarios The status-quo or bad scenario: ‘Information will continue to … Continue reading The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Twitter reminded me that there’s #NTTS2017 going on, Eurostat’s biennial scientific conference on New Techniques and Technologies for Statistics (NTTS). The opening session also focused on official statistics and its actual and future role in a world of data deluge and alt-facts. What will be Official Statistics in 30 years? In Diego Kuonen’s presentation and discussion on ‘Big … Continue reading There is no New Thing under the Sun – Yes and No
Official Statistics has a long tradition in creating and providing high-quality metadata. And the Semantic Web needs just this: metadata! …Continue reading »
There are (at least) two big challenges official statistics will be faced with in the next few years and which will possibly …Continue reading »
In the official statistics industry (an industry!) reflection and collaboration are highly prioritized. As an example: HLG-BAS. What’s this? ’The High-Level Group for Strategic Developments in Business Architecture in Statistics (HLG-BAS) was set up by the Bureau of the Conference of European Statisticians in 2010 to oversee and coordinate international work relating to the development of …Read More
In his Blog Director Groves of the US Census Bureau informs about an important discussion among his colleagues (thanks Xavier for this hint): ‘Several weeks ago, at the initiative of Brian Pink, the Australian statistician, leaders of the government statistical agencies from Australia, Canada, New Zealand, United Kingdom, and the United States held a summit …Read More
