What does digital technology mean for data dissemination in Ghana?

National statistical offices have experienced significant changes in recent years, urging them to re-think the way they collect, manage and disseminate data. Information technology (IT) has played a critical role in helping to save time, improve accuracy, and enhance access to their products. Yet, the move from a paper-based to a fully digital system requires […]

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The SIS-CC Newsletter – December 2021

The December issue of the SIS-CC newsletter zooms in on a new blog post on the value of SDMX beyond the official statistics community and an article on how to easily create Power BI reports from SDMX sources using the certified SDMX-Power BI Connector. Further, it features a video tutorial on installing .Stat Suite in […]

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Official statistics at the fingertips of Power BI users around the globe

Let us start with two questions statisticians, data producers and analysts might face: With hundreds, thousands, or even millions of rows of data stored in my data warehouse, how do I effectively tell a story using that data? How can I help my users identify and understand patterns in this massive amount of information to […]

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Why SDMX matters

This month the UK Data Service Aggregate Data Unit will begin migrating its international data platform to the latest version of .Stat Suite. In this article, published on the Data Impact Blog, Eric Anvar, Head of Smart Data at the OECD, explains how the Statistical Data and Metadata eXchange (SDMX) standard has improved the new […]

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