Managing Government Information as an Asset
A new Open Data Policy of the US Government says that ‘starting this week (9th May 2013) new and modernized …
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Hedonometer
I am happy (8.3? from 9) to present you this –> link! Daily Happiness Averages for Twitter, September 2008 to present …
Living Earth Platform
Statistics are an important source of information. But in a highly connected world it’s just one source among others. The ambitious international scientific …
And now: Semantic Statistics (SemStats)
Official Statistics has a long tradition in creating and providing high-quality metadata. And the Semantic Web needs just this: metadata! …
Books from the Washing Machine
Where statistics and the passion for human development meet: In a classic presentation from Hans Rosling. Who else could do this …
Big Data, Open Data and Official Statistics
There are (at least) two big challenges official statistics will be faced with in the next few years and which will possibly …
Talking Pictures
A picture talks. ‘If a picture can say a thousand words, the combination of information and imagery could be wort …
An Invisible Science with Enormous Impact
Professor Ron Wasserstein, Executive Director of the American Statistical Association and member of the Statistics2013 Steering Committee, describes some of …
Country Portraits – Open and Embedabble
Looking for important statistical indicators of European countries? Comparing these countries? Taking the application to your own website? Making a …
End of the Web
DAVID GELERNTER (lifestreams.com) wrote an article in Wired 02.01.13 with a very definitive title: The End of the Web, Search, …
United Statisticians of Europe
Head of Elstat (Statistics Greece) faces an official criminal investigation Kerin Hope (Athens) from Financial Times reports (27.11.2011): ‘The head of …
