The Use of R in Official Statistics - uRos2024 - live
uRos2024 on-site event 27-29 November 2024
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Venue
Meeting Venue The meeting will take place at the premises of the
Hellenic Statistical Authority (ELSTAT) in Piraeus. Piraeus is the main
port of Athens and the city’s gateway to the islands of the
Aegean.
Address: 46 Pireos and Eponiton street 18547- Piraeus
(www.statistics.gr)
The conference secretariat can be reached via: uros2024 [at]
statistics.gr
A valid ID/password is required for your entry in the building.
Agenda
27th of November: Tutorials
28th of November: Welcome message & Keynote speaker 1 & Sessions
of presentations
29th of November: Keynote speaker 2 & Sessions of presentations
& Closing remarks
Wednesday, 27 November 2024
09:00 - 09:45 Registration
09:45 - 10:00 Welcome message
10:00 - 12:00 Tutorial session I “nonprobsvy: an R package for modern
methods for nonprobability surveys” by Łukasz Chrostowski and Maciej
Beręsewicz, Statistics Poland
12:00 - 13:00 Lunch break
13:00 - 15:00 Tutorial session II “R packages around JDemetra+: a
versatile toolbox for time series analysis” by Anna Smyk and Tanguy
Barthelemy, INSEE France
15:00 - 15:30 Coffee break
15:30 - 17:30 Tutorial session III “Data validation” by Mark van der
Loo, CBS Netherlands
Thursday, 28 November 2024
08:30 - 08:45 Walk in
08:45 - 09:00 Welcome message
09:00 - 10:00 Keynote speaker 1 “Why and for what purpose R in Official
Statistics?” by Sandra Barragan
10:00 - 10:30 Coffee break
10:30 - 12:00 Scientific session I R in Organization
12:00 - 13:00 Lunch break and Group photo
13:00 - 14:00 Scientific session II Machine Learning and AI
14:00 - 15:00 Scientific session III Data cleaning
15:00 - 15:30 Coffee break
15:30 - 16:30 Scientific session IV NLP in Official Statistics and Time
series
16:30 - 17:30 Scientific session V Using R in New Data Sources &
Report and GUIs
19:30 Official dinner
Friday, 29 November 2024
08:30 – 09:00 Walk in
09:00 - 10:00 Keynote speaker 2 “Moving away from SAS: an opportunity to
modernise the practices of statisticians” by Romain Lesur
10:00-10:30 Coffee break
10:30 - 12:00 Scientific session I Methods for Official Statistics
12:00 - 13:30 Scientific session II Sampling and Estimation
13:30-14:30 Lunch break
14:30 - 15:30 Scientific session III Disclosure control, dissemination
and visualization
15:30 - 16:30 Scientific session IV R in Production: Automation
16:30-17:00 Coffee break
17:00-18:00 Scientific session V Data analysis
18:00 Closing remarks
Download the agenda, in detail: Detailed_agenda_uRos2024_v14.pdf
Abstracts
You can browse all the accepted abstracts at https://uros.hopto.org/.
Download the book of abstracts: book-of-abstracts-uros2024_v3.pdf
Official Dinner
28 November - 19:30
Restaurant: Pame Psyr
Address: Katsikogianni 5, Athina 105 54
Maps:
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Photo group
Day 3
Welcome to the second day of the conference!
Keynote Speaker: Romain Lesur, INSEE France
Presentation - “Moving away from SAS: an opportunity to modernise the
practices of statisticians”
Scientific Session: Methods for Official Statistics
Access to official statistics from R: part II
Olav ten Bosch, CBS Netherlands
Detection and visualization of outliers in establishment
surveys
Valentin Todorov, UNIDO (retired)
Is statistical matching feasible?
Marcello D’Orazio, Statistics Italy (ISTAT)
Testing for the bias in the estimation of business structure
indexes from different data sources
Michaela Balkoudi, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Department of
Mathematics
Regional food purchasing behavior characteristics contained in
the Household Income and Expenditure Survey data
Atsushi Kimura, National Statistics Center, Japan
Scientific Session: Sampling and Estimation
Joint calibration estimators for totals and quantiles for
probability and nonprobability samples
Maciej Beręsewicz, Poznań University of Economics and Business;
Statistical Office in Poznań
Marcin Szymkowiak, Poznań University of Economics and Business;
Statistical Office in Poznań
nonprobsvy: an R package for modern methods for non-probability
surveys
Łukasz Chrostowski, Faculty of Mathematics and Informatics, Adam
Mickiewicz University
Piotr Chlebicki, Faculty of Mathematics and Informatics, Adam Mickiewicz
University; Centre for the Methodology of Population Studies,
Statistical Office in Poznań
Maciej Beręsewicz, Poznań University of Economics and Business,
Department of Statistics; Centre for the Methodology of Population
Studies, Statistical Office in Poznań, Poland
Estimation of population parameters in EL-SILC with the R
packages: the experience of ELSTAT
Irene Sarantou, Hellenic Statistical Authority
Anastasia Mnimatidou, National Technical University of Athens
blocking: an R package for blocking of records for probabilistic
record linkage based on approximate nearest neighbors
algorithms
Maciej Beręsewicz, Poznań University of Economics and Business,
Department of Statistics; Centre for the Methodology of Population
Studies, Statistical Office in Poznań, Poland
Scientific Session: Disclosure control, dissemination and visualization
Use of R to automate Eurostat statistical publications: Insights
from the third edition of the EMOS Coding Lab
Meszaros Matyas, Eurostat
Gallelli Andrea, Eurostat
Steenvoorden Tina, GOPA Worldwide Consultants
Maja Islam, Eurostat
Using R for efficient content production - The case of a monthly
Statistics Explained article
Bogdan Alexandru Micu, European Commission – DG TAXUD, Belgium
Statistical disclosure control for Census data with sdcMicro
package: the computational challenges
Vasiliki Spiliopoulou, Hellenic Statistical Authority
Dionysios Fragkopoulos, Hellenic Statistical Authority
Scientific Session: R in Production: Automation
Interactive visualizations of very large datasets using {shiny}
and Base R
Rahul Sangole, USA
Statistical Business Registers updates monitoring and
dashboards
Pedro Carrasqueira, Statistics Portugal
António Portugal, Statistics Portugal
Isabel Farinha, Statistics Portugal
Automatic Classification of Economic Activities with NOGAuto:
Exploring Rules for Use in Statistical Production
Athanassia Chalimourda, Swiss Federal Statistical Office (SFSO)
Lightning talk: A practical example for embedding R into
Eviewsprogramming
Michel Geller, STATEC Luxembourg
Scientific Session: Data analysis
Leveraging R for Official Statistics: A Case Study Using Traffic
Count Data
Nele van der Wielen, Central Statistics Office Ireland
Utilizing R for Simulating Studies in International Large-Scale
Assessment
Umut Atasever, IEA Hamburg (International Association for the Evaluation
of Educational Achievement), Germany
Francis L. Huang, University of Missouri, USA
Leslie Rutkowski, Indiana University, USA
Unemployment, Net Income and Emigration. An Econometric
Study
Marius Nicolae Jula, Faculty of Business and Administration
Estimating equivalized income for school students in
Austria
Dominik Ernst, Statistics Austria
Johannes Gussenbauer, Statistics Austria
Lightning talk: Time Series Analysis of Well-being and Poverty
Using R
Tudor-Ștefan Irimia, Bucharest Academy of Economic Studies
Closing
Day 2
Welcome to the conference!
A warm welcome message from the side of Organizing Committee
Ana-Maria Ciuhu, on behalf of National Institute of Statistics
Ciprian Alexandru, on behalf of Ecological University of Bucharest
Keynote Speaker: Sandra Barragan, Statistics Spain (INE)
Presentation - “Why and for what purpose R in Official Statistics?”
Scientific Session: R in Organization
Using R and SAS Viya for Statistical Production – a Multiple-Tool
Approach
Andreas Jahn, Federal Statistical Office Germany (Destatis)
Managing a Central Server for R Programming at Destatis:
Practical Insights and Challenges
Bernhard Fischer, Federal Statistical Office Germany (Destatis)
Romania’s experience in using R in the official
statistics
Ana-Maria Ciuhu, National Institute of Statistics; Institute of National
Economy, Romanian Academy
Encouraging use of R at NSTAC Japan
Ichiro Murata, National Statistics Center, Japan
Scientific Session: Machine Learning and AI
Supervised statistical (machine) learning for domain estimation
with business survey data
Vasilis Chasiotis, Department of Statistics, Athens University of
Economics and Business, Athens, Greece
The Synergy of R and Generative AI in Statistics
Vytas Vaiciulis, Central Statistics Office, Ireland
Automating Data Validation on SQL Server Using R and the Machine
Learning package
Paula Hartung, Statistics Iceland
RMLUtils: an Official Statistics oriented common interface for Machine Learning Carlos Sáez Calvo, Statistics Spain (INE)
Scientific Session: Data cleaning
A process for making imputations in official
statistics
Claude Lamboray, STATEC Luxembourg
Automatic validation in R for EU-SILC microdata
Margherita Zuppardo, Statistics Iceland
Scientific Session: NLP in Official Statistics and Time series
A Neural Network Approach to Text Classification for
International Standardized Codes
Nina Niederhametner, Statistics Austria
Semantic address matching using Keras for R
Paula Cruz, Statistics Portugal; NOVA IMS Leonardo Vanneschi, NOVA IMS
Marco Painho, NOVA IMS Filipa Ribeiro, Statistics Portugal
TEAM: an R package for time series model
identification
Carlos Sáez Calvo, Statistics Spain (INE)
MEDOS: A Shiny Application for Seasonal Adjustment of Short-Term
Statistics
Muhammed Fatih Tüzen, Turkish Statistical Institute (TURKSTAT)
Scientific Session: Using R in New Data Sources & Report and GUIs
New data sources and Official Statistics: An exemplary research
workflow in R using different API wrapper packages
Yannik Buhl, Federal Statistical Office Germany (Destatis)
Use of R tools in the statistical disclosure control of census data in Poland Tomasz Józefowski, Statistical Office in Poznań, Centre for Small Area Estimation; Poznań University of Economics and Business, Chair of Statistics
Streamlining Web Paradata Retrieval and Analysis at Statistics
Sweden: A Semi-Automated Approach for Enhanced Efficiency and
Consistency
Gustaf Andersson, Statistics Sweden
Emma Stavås, Statistics Sweden
Rmarkdown report in R Shiny
Olesja Nikoluskina, The Central Statistical Bureau of Latvia
Transforming Excel reports into SMDX compatible datasets with
R
Athanassios Stavrakoudis, Applied Informatics and Computational
Economics Lab, Department of Economics, University of Ioannina,
Greece
Day 1
Welcome to the trainings day!
Contact
We are looking forward to meeting you in person at the premises of
the Hellenic Statistical Authority in Piraeus, Greece!
Conference venue: Hellenic Statistical Authority (ELSTAT) 46, Pireos and
Eponiton street 18547- Piraeus www.statistics.gr
The conference secretariat can be reached via: uros2024 [at]
statistics.gr
Secretariat members
Katerina Kalioti, Hellenic Statistical Authority (ELSTAT)
Ana Maria Ciuhu, National Institute of Statistics, Romania
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