Data scientists inspired by innovative CBS research

Creating official, high-quality statistics based on big data and register data is not a simple matter. The data sources were not designed for statistical use and safeguarding the quality and continuity is quite complex. Therefore, the ultimate challenge for data scientists is to develop methods that'translate' huge amounts of data into high-quality statistics. CBS pursues this challenge with methods such as machine learning. As CBS data scientist Marc Ponsen explains, 'Machine learning has received an enormous boost by faster computers and the huge amounts of data that have become available, although what the best possible method is very much depends on the domain under investigation.'