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Education more challenging and up to date with Big Data

Analysis of big data is becoming ever more important for governments to facilitate effective, sustainable policy choices

CBS Urban Data Centre / The Hague

CBS and the municipality of The Hague are collaborating in a CBS Urban Data Centre / The Hague as of 26 September 2017.

Sensor Data Challenge 2021: experimenting with smart sensors

The third Sensor Data Challenge took place on 22 and 23 April 2021.

Big Data Matters 3 – The need for timely statistics

About the seminar Big Data Matters 3 – The need for timely statistics

Data visualisation: a picture says more than 1000 words

The CBS wants to make its data even more accessible. One effective way to do this is through data visualisation.

Unique collaboration for big data research

Description of activities of Center for Big Data Statistics

New Quality Criteria for Integrating New Data and Methods in Statistics

This paper aims to elicit a discussion of the existence of a paradigm shift in official statistics through the emergence of new (unstructured) data sources and methods that may not adhere to established...

Urban Data Centre launched for Groningen region

CBS and Groningen city are launching joint activities involving the collection, processing and presentation of data

Caribbean Netherlands; MBO students by level, sector and domain

Prevocational secondary education, pupils Level, type of education, region

Statistics Netherlands invests in Spark to process big data

Over the next few months, Statistics Netherlands (CBS) will invest in a new computer system: Spark.

The international road to new forms of data collection

CBS hosted two UNECE workshops in October, on data collection and statistics communication.

ISI Congress 2021: How statistics can help build a better world

The 63rd ISI World Statistics Congress is set to take place from 11-16 July 2021.

40 percent international first-year students at Dutch universities

More and more foreign students enrol at a Dutch university (WO) or university of applied science (HBO).

CBDS’ international partner network

Description of the CBDS’ international partner network

Comparing activity trackers to investigate physical activity

This paper describes the search for a sensor system that is accurately and validly capable to recognise physical activity and its intensity. Different methods to estimate the intensity of physical activity...

How the mathematics of complex systems contributes to statistics

On Wednesday 20 October 2021, Professor Frank Pijpers gave his inaugural lecture on Empirical explorations of a complex society at the University of Amsterdam.

Multilateral indices and the relaunch problem

A complication of many modern price index methods is the relaunch problem: price changes due to product replacement are not properly measured. This paper compares three solution methods: clustering, imputation...

Topological anonymity in networks

Statistics Netherlands has been investigating Network data as a source of new statistics. This implies new questions in the area of statistical disclosure control. In this paper a theory for measuring...

World Data Forum: from data to policy

The first World Data Forum was held in Cape Town, South Africa from 15 to 18 January this year.

Microdatasets via DANS

Integral income and wealth statistics

Brief survey description Integral income and wealth statistics

Maritime data: big data source with great potential

A European project group led by Stastistics Netherlands is conducting a study on AIS-data

Urban Data Centres

Information about Urban Data Centers

Extracting data on road network transportation from sensor data without sample design

Big data has received increasing attention across several disciplines in recent years. In official statistics, big data potentially enables us to produce statistics cheaper, faster, and on a higher level...