Exploring New Statistical Frontiers at the Intersection of Survey Science and Big Data: A Report from BigSurv18

Abstract

Held in October 2018, The Big Data Meets Survey Science conference, also known as "BigSurv18," provided a first-of-its-kind opportunity for survey researchers, statisticians, computer scientists, and data scientists to convene under the same roof. At this conference, scientists from multiple disciplines were able to exchange ideas about their work might influence and enhance the work of others. This was a landmark event, especially for survey researchers and statisticians, whose industry has been buffeted of late by falling response rates and rising costs at the same time as a proliferation of new tools and techniques, coupled with increasing availability of data, has resulted in "Big Data" approaches to describing and modelling human behavior.

Publisher

European Survey Research Association

Publication Date

4-11-2019

Publication Title

Survey Research Methods

Department

Computer Science

Document Type

Article

DOI

https://doi.org/10.18148/srm/2019.v1i1.7467

Keywords

Big Data, Artificial intelligence, Machine learning, Survey research, Official statistics

Language

English

Format

text

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