Towards a data driven

society

Sofie De Broe and Piet Daas Launch ONS data science campus, 27 March 2017

Heerlen: HQ CBDS

LeuvenAachen

Big data

Newport

Ruhr

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Work at Center of Big Data Statistics- At the Center for Big data Statistics

1. Case studies/beta products2. 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

Heat map: Age vs. ‘Income’

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Heatmaps of income vs age (gender)

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A 3D heat map: Age vs. Income vs. Amount After ‘data reduction’

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3D Heatmap of income vs age

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Road sensor data

6 More on: https://www.cbs.nl/en-gb/our-services/innovation

Traffic intensity vs GDP

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)

Twitter data

8 http://research.cbs.nl/socialtension/NL/

Social Tension indicator (daily)

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

Web pages

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