Data modelling workshop with FAO in Rome

The OECD-led Statistical Information System Collaboration Community welcomes the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) as its 16th member. As part of an extended onboarding procedure for new members, two of our SDMX data modelling experts flew to Rome for a two day hands-on workshop with the aim to boost FAO experts’ capacity for SDMX data […]

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FAO joins the Community

The Statistical Information System Collaboration Community (SIS-CC) welcomes the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations as its 16th member. “FAO is very pleased to join the SIS-CC as this allows to implement collaborative solutions to the current efforts of the Organization in modernizing its statistical system. The modernization project aims to develop […]

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Key points from the Webinar: Using ILO SDMX tools for data preparation and modelling for the .Stat Suite hosted by .Stat Academy

The .Stat Academy hosted a webinar on Wednesday, 19 October 2022, to demonstrate how the ILO SDMX tools (namely SDMX Constructor and SMART) can be used to build the structural metadata and load data on the .Stat Suite platform. The .Stat Academy is a platform for data producers and data toolers to learn and teach, […]

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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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.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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