New Techniques and Technologies for Statistics NTTS 2019

New Techniques and Technologies for Statistics (NTTS) 2019

Date, topics, satellite events • Main conference 12 to 14 March 2019 • (with satellite events taking place on 11 and 15 March) • Parallel Hackathon 9 -12 March 2019 event, 11 March satellite event: presentations Hackathon outcome • Satellite event: Measuring the digital economy, 15 March, MAKSWELL, 15 March • Covered topics from traditional themes of official statistics like “survey design”, “small area estimation” to evolving topics covering innovative approaches such as “machine learning”, “Using R in Statistical Institutes”, “statistical & data literacy”, "Smart statistics for Smart cities“

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Programme • -several plenary sessions with high-level keynote speakers and panellists • -around 30 parallel sessions • -3 poster sessions • -several networking possibilities • Full programme is online under • https: //ec. europa. eu/eurostat/cros/content/ntts 2019 -programme_en 4

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Participants NTTS attendance has reached record level in 2019: • 703 attended participants over the course of the week • with over 900 registered participants 8

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Highlights & awards • Big Data Hackathon award • 3 rd Place -the team from the ONS – UK • developed a system to enrich the data collected via traditional questionnaire based surveys with an automatic processing of photos of meals taken by respondents • 2 nd Place -the team from ISTAT - Italy • created SMUTIS, an integrated open source environment for data analytics, visualisation and food classification • 1 st Place -the team from Statistics Poland • created an open source prototype delivering a dashboard for the data analysis of the population time use 10

…. highlights & awards • EMOS award ceremony –winner of the EMOS mater thesis competition 2019 • Ms Julia Manecke, University of Trier • • Mr Nhu Tho Nguyen, KU Leuven • • Regional analysis of business survey: methods and applications in the context of Small Area Statistics Estimation of measurement errors in social survey Ms Giovanna Tagliaferri, La Sapienza Roma • VAT Tax gap prediction: a 2 -steps gradient boosting approach 11

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…what’s next? NTTS 2019 presenters were eligible to submit their papers to: -a special issue of the Journal of Official Statistics (JOS) -special section of the Eurostat Review of National Accounts and Indicators (EURONA) -additional publication possibilities the Eurostat Statistical Working Paper series -IAOS journal All sessions were live-webstreamed & available on the website 14

Conference of European Statistics Stakeholders (CESS 2020) • Save the date: • Prague 29/30 of September 2020 • For updates please follow the organisers’ twitter feed • https: //mobile. twitter. com/EU_Conf. ESS • https: //twitter. com/eu_confess/status/1123930216127242 240? s=21 15

…. see you at CESS 2020 & NTTS 2021 16