Community members present latest SDMX breakthroughs at 2021 SDMX Global Conference

From 27 to 30 September 2021, compilers and users of official statistics from across the world gathered at the 8th Global Conference on Statistical Data and Metadata Exchange (SDMX) to present and discuss recent achievements and upcoming SDMX developments. This year’s event was hosted virtually by the National Institute of Statistics and Geography of Mexico […]

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The Community launches the SDMX Power BI connector in open source!

With Microsoft Power BI becoming one of the most widely used Business Intelligence tools on the market today, the Community saw the need to ease the sourcing and visualisation of statistical data through a standard interface, Statistical Data and Metadata eXchange (SDMX). In early 2021, the Community worked closely with an expert in the Power […]

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New guidelines for analysing data flows in national statistical offices

The community partnered with the Partnership in Statistics for Development in the 21st Century (PARIS21) to support the creation of the Data Flow Analysis Framework guidelines. The joint publication outlines the steps for a successful analysis of indicator dissemination processes in national statistical offices (NSOs), providing a consistent approach to capturing the current state (“as-is”) […]

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.Stat as a Service on the United Nations Global Platform

In 2020, the National Statistics Institute of Cambodia (NIS), OECD, UNSD and the UN Global Working Group on Big Data for official statistics (GWG) joined forces to move CamStat to the cloud-based United Nations Global Platform (UNGP). Experts from ONS/UK, Statistics Netherlands, ABS and UNSD, as well as UNESCAP and UNICEF, provided valuable in-kind contributions […]

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