CBS lecture at the opening of Data Science Campus of ONS

1. Towards a data driven
society
Sofie De Broe and Piet Daas

2. Heerlen: HQ CBDS
Leuven
Aachen
Big data
Newport
Ruhr
Admin sources
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3. Work at Center of Big Data Statistics
- At the Center for Big data Statistics
1. Case studies/beta products
2. Methodological & exploratory research
- Examples of our work
‐ Income data:Visualisation 2D/3D
‐ Road sensor data:Traffic intensity and GDP
‐ Scanner data: ‘Ginger bread’ index
‐ Twitter: Social tension indicator
‐ Webpages: Identify web only shops
‐ Webpages: Identifying innovative companies3

4. Heat map: Age vs. ‘Income’
Age
Income(euro)
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Heatmaps of income vs age (gender)

5. A 3D heat map: Age vs. Income vs.
Amount
amount
amount
3D Heatmap of income vs age
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6. Road sensor data
6 More on: https://www.cbs.nl/en-gb/our-services/innovation
Traffic intensity vs GDP

7. Scanner data
7 More on: https://www.cbs.nl/nl-nl/onze-diensten/innovatie
Turnover of ‘ginger bread’ specific for Saint Nicolas festivities
(2015 and 2016: weekly)

8. Twitter data
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http://research.cbs.nl/socialtension/NL/
SocialTension indicator (daily)

9. Web pages
– From Common Crawl archive ‘2016-07’
– Found:
‐ +/- 60 million websites
‐ +/- 50.000 Dutch web shops
‐ 12670 web shops in scope
Web only shops in the Netherlands

10. Web pages
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11. Tip of the Iceberg
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12. Questions?
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