UNICEF’s How many tool: Improving access to data on children’s wellbeing 

How many children are there in the world? How many of those have been vaccinated against polio? And how many are enrolled in school? UNICEF recently unveiled ‘How many’, an interactive search tool designed to provide precise answers to these and many other questions on the global situation of children. Policymakers, researchers and curious users […]

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Main takeaways from the Conference on New Techniques and Technologies for Statistics (NTTS)

Eric Anvar, Head of Smart at the OECD participated at the Conference on New Techniques and Technologies for Statistics (NTTS) in Brussels 6-10 March 2023 and shared his main takeaways from the inspiring keynote speech by Marko Grobelnik (AI Lab, Jozef Stefan Institute). Grobelnik referenced OECD’s work on AI (https://oecd.ai/en/) and illustrated brilliantly the potential value of […]

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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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