[Forum SIS] IASS Webinar: Survey and Big data interactions (during the COVID emergency)

[GAIA BERTARELLI]

3rd IASS Webinar:

"Survey and Big data interactions (during the COVID emergency)"

11:00 am - 12:30pm (CET), 4th Nov, 2020

Piet Daas & Marco Puts - Statistics Netherlands


The IASS webinar series continues to showcase examples of national 
organizations using surveys to collect data on COVID-19. All are invited 
to this webinar that is organised by the International Association for 
Survey Statisticians.


The webinar will consist of two talks:

•	Prof. Dr. Piet Daas’ talk is on “Detecting innovative companies via 
text on their websites”.
This presentation is about the use of website texts to classify 
companies. Survey-based and website-based findings are compared for the 
detection of Innovative companies. In this way, the number of small 
innovative companies can be estimated. Other applications are mentioned.

•	Marco Puts talk is on “Estimating the development of Covid based on 
symptom mentions in social media: a convenient sample”.
This presentation is about using social media messages to create an 
early indicator for the development of Covid in the Netherlands.


The webinar will be recorded and made available on the IASS web site.

Please register for IASS Webinar 3- at:

https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/7935793753810389518

After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing 
information about joining the webinar.

Biographies of the speakers:

Prof. Dr. Piet Daas is a senior-methodologist at Statistics Netherlands 
where he leads the research on Big Data. He is a professor by special 
appointment on ‘Big Data in Official Statistics’ at the Eindhoven 
University of Technology where his work focuses on the development of 
Big Data methodology. Piet teaches Big Data (on-line) at the University 
of Utrecht, University of Maryland, and the University of Mannheim.


Dr. Marco Puts is a methodologist at Statistics Netherlands. He is 
affiliated at the Radboud University and is lecturer at the University 
of Mannheim and the University of Maryland. He is involved in the VEO 
project, an observatory of infectious diseases in Europe. Within this 
project he cooperates within the University of Bologna, Erasmus 
University, EPFL, DTU and ELTE.

The moderator for the webinar will be Monica Pratesi (IASS, President 
Elect)
Organizers: Gaia Bertarelli, Denise Britz do Nascimento Silva, James 
Chipperfield and Monica Pratesi
-- 
Gaia Bertarelli, PhD
Research Fellow in Statistics
Department of Economics and Management
University of Pisa
Email:
Work: gaia.bertarelli a ec.unipi.it