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Innovation at Statistics Netherlands

Barteld Braaksma and Marleen Verbruggen

 Th I ti d th I ti L b  The Innovation programme and the Innovation Lab  Innovation topics and three examples

Why an innovation programme?

External pressure

(new output channels. cooperation)

Technological challenges Internal ideas

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(big data, social media) (empowerment; synergies)

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Road map for innovation tracks

How does the programme work(1/2)?

1. Rough idea 2. Enriched idea 3. Find sponsor 4. Concrete proposal 5. Proof of Concept 6. Implementation

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The best way of having a good idea is having a lot of ideas Not starting from methodology (theory) But from idea for application (practice)

How does the programme work(2/2)?

• Innovation program supports and facilitates tracks
• Survival of the fittest (accept failure)

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# ideas > # PoCs > # implementations

• Resources from initiator, sponsor, methodology, IT
• Collaboration with external partners
• Strong support from top management
• Light management and limited paperwork (‘just do it’)

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The Innovation lab

Heerlen

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• Elaborating ideas
• Brainstorming

Opened May2012

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The Hague

• Workshops
• Open IT-environment
• Communication facilities

Innovation topics

• Internet as a data source
• Smartphone data collection
• Smartphone data collection
• Traffic loop data
• (Twitter streams)
• (Satellite photos)
• (Speech recognition)
• (Open data)

(Visualisation methods and tools)

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• (Visualisation methods and tools)
• (New IT tools)
• (CAPI using Win8 tablets)

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Internet as a Data Source (example 1/3)

Job vacancies from internet robots

• Many opportunities

20 25 30 35 40 45 %

and quarterly statistics compared

 Price statistics  Job vacancies  C2C (EBay)

• But important issues

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5 10 15

Elementary Primary Secondary Higher University Unknown

Internet CBS

• Quality
• Methodology
• Legal aspects

Smartphones (example 2/3)

• Promising applications

T ki t h

• Tracking smartphone use
• Combination with GPS data
• Short pop-up questionnaires
• Challenges
• Recruitment of participants (privacy!)
• Power consumption

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• Methodological issues

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Experimental App for traffic survey (trip detection/ interpretation/ additional questions)

Start Trip Additional Summary screen detection questions

• f trips

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Big Data (example 3/3)

• 3 V’s: Volume, Variety, Velocity
• 80 million traffic loop detection records daily (Netherlands)
• One million Dutch social media messages daily
• Big challenge to extract meaningful statistical information!
• Need for new or adapted methods
• Visualization
• Text mining
• High Performance Computing
• Active area in Innovation Programme

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• Experiments using state-of-the-art equipment
• Contracts for data sets
• Encourage/initiate contacts with external partners

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What are our experiences so far?

• Innovation programme works

(50 ideas during 2012) (50 ideas during 2012)

• Many non-statistical issues show up

(legal aspects, IT requirements)

• New sources come with new challenges

(methodology, recruitment, robustness)

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