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 …
Category Archives: 09 Stat.Office / Organization
Methods changed – Information changed
The joint OECD – WTO Trade in Value-Added Initiative breaks with conventional measurements of trade, which record gross flows of goods and …
OGD – the statistical point of view
The World Wide Web has set the standard: vast amounts of information are freely available and ready for use. And the …
Europe has an Open Data Portal, too
The European Commission opened its Open Data Portal some days ago. Powered by CKAN. . Most of the 5811 datasets (97%) are statistical ones …
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 …
How’s Austria?
Statistics Austria published an interesting dashboard. An interactive choice of indicators and visual presentations help in understanding and evaluating developments. …
The last one … and reflections about new ones
The last one This is the last one as The Globe and Mail reports ‘Statistics Canada published the last edition …
Evidence-based Decision Making
iPads (or any easily accessible device) with a dashboard application on it become more and more used tools (or Gadgets) for …
LOGSD
Curious about abbreviations? Here’s (a new) one: Linked Open Government Statistical Data LOGSD. LOGSD are statistical data official statistics agencies …
Statistics in Focus #2
‘The International Year of Statistics (“Statistics2013″) is a worldwide celebration and recognition of the contributions of statistical science. Through the …
Statistics in Focus #1
The OECD Statistics Directorate released the “Model Survey Questionnaire on Measuring Trust in Official Statistics”. The OECD Newsletter July 2012 explains all the details (www.oecd.org/ …
