unconfUROS

The annual conference on the use of R in official statistics will take place on the premises of Statistics Netherlands September 12-14. We are excited to announce an unconference use of R in official statistics on the two days just before the uRos conference.

Motivation

The idea behind the event (similar to http://unconf17.ropensci.org/ for R in general) to bring together useRs from the area of official statistics to work for two days on concrete projects where enhancements would benefit many institutes, organisation,... .

Similar to the idea of the awesome official statistics software list, this should complement an abstract top-down approach such as the common statistical production architecture with fast bottom-up solutions.

Presentation

The results of unconfUROS will be presented during the ensuing uRos2018 conference.

Implemented ideas

• A shiny app for data validation and rule management
  • unconfUROS result
  • A categorical variable that satisfies needs of NSI's
  • unconfUROS result
  • A shiny app that visualizes an interactive price kaleidoscope
  • unconfUROS result
  • A wrapper for the Dutch (reverse) geocoding service Locatieserver hosted by PDOK
  • unconfUROS result

Other ideas

• Machine learning techniques for imputation (boosting, deep learning, ....)
• Sampling package that covers the need of NSIs
• A shiny app for statistical disclosure control of tabular data (using sdcTable)

We are fully booked!

As of 13 August 2018, the unconf hackathon is at its maximum capacity, so no new applications are accepted.

unconfUROS Programme

See here

unconfUROS Location

Statistics Netherlands

Henri Faasdreef 312, 2492 JP The Hague

The Netherlands

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email: uRos208 at CBS dot nl