7th International Conference on Big Data and Data Science for Official Statistics

07/11/2022 - 11/11/2022

The 7th International Conference on Big Data and Data Science for Official Statistics will take place from 7 to 11 November 2022 in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, under the theme "Global Challenges and the Importance of Relevant and Timely Data".

The world faces many global challenges related to environment, climate change, health, food insecurity, economic recovery or human displacement. To take appropriate action, governments have to understand and monitor the existing situation and therefore need relevant and timely data. The statistical community is tasked to deliver these data, in particular also data on the Sustainable Development Goals.

Emerging issues require timely and flexible production of indicators often in collaboration with strategic partners from public and private sector as well as academia. The Big Data Conference, which will take place from 7 till 11 November 2022 in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, will focus on the use of new data sources and use of data science in dialogues with decision makers and experts from all stakeholder communities. It will also include the 2022 Big Data Hackathon.

FAO's presence at the Conference:

FAO's work will be featured at the Conference with a keynote speech by M. Carlo Cafiero (Statistics Division) during the Food Security session, and with two presentations, "Standardization of methods to produce official land cover and crop statistics using Earth Observations data" delivered by Pietro Gennari, Chief Statistician, and "Methods for mapping in the context of limited availability of in-situ data in developing countries: efficient classification algorithm and automatic updating of training data from an outdated data set", delivered by Lorenzo De Simone (Office of Chief Statistician).

For more information, download the programme or visit the official event's website.

Recordings: Day 1

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