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! …
Category Archives: 08 Events
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 …
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 …
Big Open Public Official Data – What’s next?
Big Data joined Open Data in last year’s discussions.What’s behind this new buzz word? What’s the impact on traditional official …
opendata.ch 2012
Some good presentations from this year’s opendata.ch event in Zürich, Switzerland. Nigel Shadbolt on Open Data and Economy . Abraham …
A Statistician among the 100 Most Influential People in the World. Who is it?
Congratulations to You Hans! Das ist mehr als verdient für die gewaltige Leistung, mit Statistiken das Bewusstsein für die grossen …
The Graphical Web 2012 | SVG Open 2012
There are plenty of conferences on data visualisation to go to and then there are even more on the various …
Better Life Index
Housing, income, jobs, community,education, environment, governance, health, life satisfaction, safety,work-life balance – these are the indicators proposed in OECD’s Better Life Index . In a interactive tool, Your Better …
And the winners are …
The winners of World Bank’s competition ‘Apps for Development’ have been announced today. See the complete list with 15 winners here. …
Government 2.0
Should Governments and also Statistics Offices use Web 2.0 in their dissemination and communication activities? What about risks and benefits? …
A BarCamp for World Stats Day
In Italy there will be taken a interesting initiative in organising a BarCamp for the World Statistics Day. This form …
