Description of activities of Center for Big Data Statistics
Besides the contribution of culture and media to the Dutch economy and the different good, services and branches of industry playing a part here, the cultural and media goods and services are grouped into...
Earth observation by planes and satellites provide imagery data that may complement survey and register data.
Solar power is an important renewable energy source. This article explains the research conducted by Statistics Netherlands to map the numbers and locations of solar panels more accurately using deep learning...
The COVID-19 crisis has brought with it a great need for reliable data, and national statistical offices (NSOs) are playing an important role in this regard.
Close to 40 ideas were submitted for the innovation award; the jury, including several directors, selected four.
An innovative way to estimate solar energy yields
Smart ways of monitoring solar power.
The first World Data Forum was held in Cape Town, South Africa from 15 to 18 January this year.
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...
frequently asked questions about RGS
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...
A European project group led by Stastistics Netherlands is conducting a study on AIS-data
It’s hard to remember a time before unmanned aircraft – drones – took to the skies.
Information about Urban Data Centers
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...
Open data
Website open data
One important part of making official statistics is how to present the statistical information. The aim of data visualisation is to makes patterns in the data – such as changes, trends, deviations, correlations...
A temporary data centre has been set up in the municipality of Veenendaal (Province of Utrecht) which is aimed at promoting data-driven working within the municipality.
CBS has a large amount of data at the level of the entire postal code (PC6).
As of November 2016, CBS and the city of Heerlen are working together in CBS Urban Data Centre / Heerlen.