Blog from April, 2023

Building on the successful 2022-2023 WIN Webinar Series, the project will continue to deliver a series of free webinars in 2023-2024. This will keep the community updated on the work being carried out across the several work strands, will raise awareness of the project, build capability in the community, and gather feedback to inform future events.

REGISTER AT: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/web-data-in-official-statistics-process-challenges-solutions-tickets-603883159787.

The webinar will cover the main steps of web (internet) data acquisition and processing illustrated with the use-case of online real estate sales/rental offers. It will lead participants step by step, from assessing the webpage's content to creating a data acquisition tool and presenting possible use of the collected data. Methodological and quality-related challenges with using web data in official statistics and possible solutions developed by the Web Intelligence Network will be discussed. 

Upcoming webinars will cover the following topics:

• Measuring construction activities using data from the web, October 2023
• Workshop on online-based enterprise characteristics, October 2023
• Web scraping of prices and combining it with scanner data, November 2023
• The Web Intelligence Hub: an overview, January 2024
• Measuring the quality of large-scale automated classification systems applied to online job advertisement data, February 2024

Asia-Pacific Stats café series, Exploring new horizons: Nepal’s practice in implementing data integration approaches, will be held on Monday, 24 April 2023, from 1330 to 1430h, Bangkok time (UTC+7).

Click this link to register and when it’s time, Click here to join the meeting.

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