Data permeates all aspects of our work, and its power—harnessed responsibly—is critical to the global agendas we serve. The UN family’s footprint, expertise and connectedness create unique opportunities to advance global “data action” with insight, impact and integrity. To help unlock more potential, 50 UN entities jointly designed this Strategy as a comprehensive playbook for…
The Asia-Pacific Stats Café Series on “Big Data Governance”Monday, 16 August 2021, 12:00-13:30 hours (GMT+7). This Stats Café explores governance issues related to the use of big data for official statistics, including privacy, ethics, legislation and coordination, and how the role of the National Statistics Office in government-wide digital strategies, national data infrastructure and data…
The Human Capital Index (HCI) provides a new definition of human capital and quantifies the contribution of health and education to the productivity of the next generation of workers. Countries can use it to assess how much income they are foregoing because of HC gaps, and how much faster they can turn these losses into…
Big Data is a collection of data that is huge in volume, yet growing exponentially with time. It is a data with so large size and complexity that none of traditional data management tools can store it or process it efficiently. Big data is also a data but with huge size. Following are the types of Big Data:…
Welcome to Maha Data! Data is defined as facts or figures, or information that’s stored in or on which operations are performed by a computer. They may be stored and transmitted in the form of electrical signals and recorded on magnetic, optical, or mechanical recording media.