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Scanner data is theme of webinar of Regional Hub for Big Data
January 13, 2025 12h10 PM | Last Updated: January 13, 2025 04h04 PM
On January 22, at 11 am, the UN Hub for Big Data in Brazil will carry out a webinar on scanner data, which are the data registered by retailers when consumers shop. Enrollment is free of charge and is already open. To participate, just enroll on link https://hub.ibge.gov.br/index_port.htm.
Broadcast in English, the webinar will discuss and present the systems architecture survey produced by the UN Task Team on ( Scanner Data). Collin Brown, a Technical Advisor of the Division of Consumer Prices of Statistics Canada, will be the speaker.
The Task Team was created in 2027 and gathers experts from national statistical offices and international organizations. It aims at promoting and expanding the practical use of alternative data sources (including scanner data) in the statistics of consumer prices. To pinpoint good practices, the Task Team is carrying out a survey on existing practices in production systems of consumer prices indexes.
ENCE/IBGE coordinates UN Regional Hub for Big Data in Brazil
Resulting from a partnership between the IBGE and the UN Statistics Division, the UN Regional Hub for Big Data in Brazil (https://hub.ibge.gov.br) was launched in November 2021 in the XI Statistical Conference of the Americas, carried out by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC). The Hub is hosted in the National School of Statistical Sciences (ENCE), the IBGE´s academic arm that coordinates the efforts and contributions from different areas to support the activities of the Regional Hub.
The project aims at contributing to the advance in the use of Big Data to improve the production of official statistics, by sharing knowledge and developing innovative initiatives in Latin America and the Caribbean. In addition to Brazil, four other countries also integrate this initiative as headquarters of either global or regional hubs: United Arab Emirates, Indonesia, Rwanda and China.
