Best wishes

Good luck and a lot of fascinating discoveries in 2010!

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“ICT is the lifeblood of the knowledge society” – Swedish Presidency of the European Union

Extracts of slides from Hans Roslings presentation (preceding the one from Nicklas Lundblad,  former Google European Policy Manager and now Senior Executive Vice President of Stockholm Chamber of Commerce, check also the panel discussion after these two presentations):

More information about the conference and all presentations:  “ICT is the lifeblood of the knowledge society” – Swedish [...]

Prague Conference – Statistics and Internet

The conference “Statistics – Investment in the future 2″ took place in Prague from 14 to 15 September 2009.
More than 100 participants attended 22 sessions.
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The session ‘Statistics and the Internet’ saw 4 presentations:
Managing the Internet in a statistical institution
Leon Oestergaard, Statistics Denmark
Influence of the Internet on dissemination of official statistics
Tomaz Smrekar, Statistical Office of the [...]

Hal Varian (Google) and Tim O’Reilly (O’Reilly Media, Inc.), “Measurables”

Gov 2.0 Summit Videos (from Google Public Sector Blog)
Monday, September 14, 2009 | 11:45 AM
If you weren’t able to make the Gov 2.0 Summit last week in DC, you’re in luck – videos of most presentations are now online.
We’ll post an update when Ola Rosling’s presentation on public data search and visualization is online.
Tim O’Reilly [...]

Statistics – Investment in the future 2. Prague 2009

The conference “Statistics – Investment in the future 2″ will take place in Prague from 14 to 15 September 2009 at Congress Centre of the Czech National Bank. The conference is held by the Czech Statistical Office, the Czech National Bank and the Prague University of Economics on the occasion of the 90th anniversary of [...]

International Marketing and Output Data Base Conference (IMAODBC) September 14 to 18, 2009

Only for participants. Login and password needed.
The conference is being organised by Statistics Canada. The organising committee may be contacted by email at imaodbc-organising@statcan.gc.ca

Timetric Makes Web Data Useful with Time Series Analysis

Timetric Makes Web Data Useful with Time Series Analysis (from ReadWriteSTART)
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This post is part of our ReadWriteStart channel, which is dedicated to profiling startups and entrepreneurs. The channel is sponsored [...]

Webinar 15-16 July: Seminar on Innovative Approaches to Turn Statistics into Knowledge, Washington D.C.

Instructions for joining the webinar. (See also Wikpedia.)
Program and presentations.
Invitation to the seminar.

Reality Checks

From June 18th to 20th 2009 Data Designed for Decisions DD4D,  a joint IIID and OECD conference, will take place in Paris.
What’s about? 
‘Bringing personal meaning and relevance to statistics. Sharing tools to access and understand data. Finding stories in data and communicating them. Helping people understand complex issues. Graphic representation and decision-making. Visualising progress and development.’
Important and often [...]

… and a Happy New Year

Here is the Figure of the (last) Week (2008 ) from Statistics Switzerland

This Flash Widget leads to a chronological overview of the SFO’s press releases, publications and new results over the last days.
See the Figure of the week on Statistics Switzerlands Homepage where the embed functionality works.

Merry Christmas and …

 

Shortlist: Better Way- Where does my money go?

Show Us a Better Way – the contest where the UK Government wants to hear what initiative people would  build with public information has published a shortlist with 19 candidates:
Ideas where we hope to create a fully working tool
* UK Cycling
* Can I recycle it?
* Catchment Areas
* Location of Postboxes (in rural and residential areas)
* [...]

Web Wide World – Internet of Things (IoT)

The Web evolves. Everything is being tracked. Data and real world objects are linked together and the web is the medium where all this happens – so the (perhaps not so far) vision.
Nova Spivack discusses this in his article ‘From World Wide Web to Web Wide World — The Web Breaks Out of its Petri [...]

The Web: My genie in the bottle.

A panel with representatives from Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft talking about the future of the Web. Moderated by Nova Spivack. Worth to have a look at !
Panelists

Howard Bloom, Author, The Evolution of Mass Mind from the Big Bang to the 21st Century
Peter Norvig, Director of Research, Google Inc.
Jon Udell, Evangelist, Microsoft Corporation
Prabhakar Raghavan, PhD, Head [...]

International Marketing and Output DataBase Conference 2008, Naantali, Finland

…..was going on 1-5 September. Have a look at all the interesting papers and presentations by clicking on the logotype! Who got the Bo Sundgren Award? Only for conference participants.  Login and password is needed.

And the Winner will be …

In 2007 the Project ALEA of Statistics Portugal won the ISI  Award in Statistical Literacy.
‘This award is given every two years in recognition of outstanding, innovative, and influential statistical literacy projects that affect a broad segment of the general public and are fruit of the cooperation of different types of institutions (national statistical office and [...]

Video of OECD-Statistics Sweden Seminar 26-27 May 2008 is ready

Starting with opening speeches of Kjell Jansson, Director General of Statistics Sweden and Enrico Giovannini, Chief Statistician of OECD. Powerpoint-presentations are found at http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/30/32/40293021.pdf

More than just football statistics

EURO 2008 knocks at the door. Statistics Switzerland has created a game which presents some indicators for all the participating football teams:
StatistigOal: the game where football teams up with statistics

Go and play

Dissemination, knowledge and innovation

In May 2008 there have been two international meetings about Dissemination of Statitics.
UNECE in Geneva:

See the documents
OECD in Stockholm: Seminar on Innovative Approaches to Turning Statistics into Knowledge

See the details

Programme ready – Joint Seminar OECD & Statistics Sweden

www.oecd.org/oecdworldforum/statknowledge