Big Data
Below are all our blog posts with the tag "Big Data"
Scaling Radio Analysis with Data Science for Infodemic Monitoring
Radio is one of the oldest communication technologies, having been used for decades. In spite of the increasing global penetration of social media and other online communication tools, radio remains
Expanding the Definition of Scaling Up
The “pilot to scale-up model” is a widely used approach when introducing social interventions or new policies. The premise of the model is very logical — considering there is an
Data to support Covid-19 response at the World Data Forum
The 2020 UN World Data Forum brought together data scientists and technology experts from the public, private, and academic sectors to discuss new technology, innovations, and the ways data is
UN Hosts First AIS Big Data Hackathon
On 3-6 September 2020 the United Nations Statistics Division, along with UNCTAD, UN Global Pulse, Marine Traffic, and CCRi, hosted the UN’s first AIS Big Data Hackathon. The challenge featured
COVID-19 pandemic: countries urged to take stronger action to stop spread of harmful information
Joint release by WHO, UN, UNICEF, UNDP, UNESCO, UNAIDS, ITU, UN Global Pulse, and IFRC
Building capacity to generate statistics from mobile phone records to support COVID-19 response
A few weeks ago, UN Global Pulse organized a series of webinars meant to assist National Statistics Bureaus in Africa with using mobile phone data to respond to, and to
Extending the Art of the Possible with Big Data to Better Inform COVID-19 Responses
Faizal, our humanitarian data advisor and one of the co-authors of this piece, often recounts what one of his supervisors said to him from his days as an information management
Identifying Potential Positive Deviants (PDs) Across Rice Producing Areas in Indonesia: An Application of Big Data Analytics and Approaches
Approaches to data collection for development programming have commonly relied on official statistical data in combination with surveys to plan, implement and monitor progress and impact for interventions. Today, the
From plague outbreaks to COVID-19: On the value of ship traffic data for epidemic modeling of diseases
Ships are an important means of transportation for both people and goods, which also makes them potential hotspots for diseases, especially those with a longer incubation period. The recent clusters
