Five Steps of a Fruitful MPD Project for Statistics

For a project to be successful, there are many different steps involved. Working on projects that use big data for decision-making is not different, but since these technologies are still fairly new, decision-makers, organisations, and project managers might not have first-hand experience implementing these types of projects.

September 08, 2022

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Mobile Tartu 2022 Highlights: MPD for Stats, Movement Tracking, and More

Mobile Tartu returned as an in-person event this year. The two-day conference was filled with fascinating lectures, sessions and panel discussions. Various topics related to mobile positioning data (MPD) were analysed, such as, standardising methodologies, mapping out actual places of residence and secondary homes, as well as smoother collaborations between the research community, decision-makers and mobile network operators.

July 11, 2022

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Visualising Foreign Tourism Flows to Indonesia in 2019

Indonesia is an attractive tropical country to foreign tourism due to its pristine archipelagos like Raja Ampat Islands or its cultural cities like Yogyakarta. The country is also well known for its famous Komodo Island, which is the only place on the planet where the Komodo dragon can be found.

April 19, 2022

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Mobile Positioning Data FAQ: MPD Basics

You might have read that mobile positioning data (MPD) has been identified by the United Nations as one of the big data sources with a great promise for its use in official statistics. Sounds great, does it not? But you probably have many questions. For instance: What exactly is mobile positioning data and how accurate is it? In this blog post, we have collected some of the most frequently asked questions we get from organisations that want to learn how to use MPD for tourism statistics, urban planning, transportation, or emergency management, just to name a few of the use cases we have worked on in the past. Keep reading and find out what MPD is and how it works!

January 18, 2022

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5 New Handbooks for the Use of Mobile Phone Data in Statistics: Meeting the needs of all without burden to any

Big decisions require high-level insights. Whether managing a pandemic, or rearranging national resources to help your society grow, having good data is a must. That is why the United Nations Committee of Experts on Big Data and Data Science for Official Statistics (UN CEBD) is launching five new handbooks for the use of mobile phone data in different statistical domains. The handbooks will be presented at Expo 2020 in Dubai on 26 January at the “Bringing Big Data and Data Science Close to Home” event.