1. Workshop on Big Data

2. Agenda  Introduction  Results of 2014 Big Data Project  Plans of international organisations  Parallel discussions (Soapbox!) Technology Methodology  Plenary

3. Workshop aims  Sharing information  Building knowledge  Gathering ideas  Identifying priorities and opportunities

4. United Nations Economic Commission for Europe Statistical Division Setting the scene Steven Vale UNECE steven.vale@unece.org

5. Introducing UNECE Statistics

6. Introducing the HLG  High-level Group for the Modernisation of Statistical Production and Services  Created by the Conference of European Statisticians in 2010  8 countries + Eurostat, OECD and UNECE  Chief statisticians or deputies  Chaired by Padraig Dalton (Ireland)

8. The story so far CSPA

9. Big Data

10. What does Big Data mean for official statistics? Priorities:  Partnerships – Guidelines  Privacy – Guidelines  Quality – Guidelines  Skills – Survey Skills profile  IT / methodological issues - Sandbox

12. Big Data  More sandbox experiments  More data E.g. UNSD Comtrade  Future of the sandbox approach?  Challenge from the High-Level Group: Produce and release a set of internationally comparable statistics from one or more Big Data sources

13. Get involved! Anyone is welcome to contribute! Contact: support.stat@unece.orgsupport.stat@unece.org More Information  HLG Wiki: www1.unece.org/stat/platform/display/hlgbas  LinkedIn group: “Modernising official statistics”