In the latest episode of Eurostat’s Stats in a Wrap podcast, we introduce the Web Intelligence Hub. This is a project dedicated to building a statistical infrastructure that helps use web content appropriately to produce official statistics.
Our host Jonathan Elliott is joined by Eurostat’s Fernando Reis, statistical officer for new data sources for official statistics; Mátyás Mészáros, methodological expert in charge of the Web Intelligence Hub and online job advertisements; Vladimir Kvetan, a skills and labour market expert at the European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training (Cedefop); and Jacek Maślankowski, assistant professor at the University of Gdańsk and consultant for Statistics Poland.
In this episode, the guests recall how the project started 10 years ago when Eurostat created an internal task force dedicated to big data and new data sources. This led to collaboration with national statistical authorities and Cedefop. Together, they researched online job advertisements, multinational enterprises and online based enterprises characteristics.
With millions of job postings from 500 websites, the project aims to define common methods and quality standards, ensuring comparability across countries. To achieve this, artificial intelligence and machine learning are used to extract data from the web.
Discover more on this data voyage by listening to the episode on the Eurostat website and the European Commission Audiovisual Service. You can also subscribe and listen to our podcast on YouTube, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or via our RSS feed.
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For more information
- Experimental statistics on labour market demand for ICT specialists in online job advertisements
- Web Intelligence Hub
- Web Intelligence Hub newsletter
- Stats in a Wrap podcast series
- Podcast episode on innovative approaches in statistics – part 1: inventiveness and AI
- Podcast episode on innovative approaches in statistics – part 2: chatbots and other AI
