The promise and problems of including 'big data' in official government statistics
- Written by Fleur Johns, Professor of Law and Associate Dean (Research), UNSW
Official statistics help to shape a population’s sense of itself.Izumo Taisha/Flickr, CC BY-SA
The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) will soon announce the kinds of information it will collect in the next national census in 2021. If international trends are a guide, “big data” will comprise a growing part of ABS data...
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