Istat.it - Experiments on Big Data

In this section, results of experiments on Big Data are available, characterised by the use of non-official sources.

The use of data scanner to estimate prices of products, for example, seems to open the way for replacing traditional sources with Big Data sources.

Another example of experimentation is the use of mobile phones data to study people movements on the territory, in different time slots and days of the week. The analysis of such data makes it possible to classify population movements, from those of commuters to other more occasional, thus obtaining important and timely information on mobility, useful for managing transport infrastructures.

Furthermore, Istat is studying the possibility of using data from online job search archives to improve estimation models of important labour market indicators, as the unemployment rate.

Most of the experiments on big data are available in Italian language only.

Social Mood on Economy Index
Update with data of the fourth quarter 2022

Reference period: Years 2016-2022
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Date of last update: 08 February 2023
Use of the Open Street Map to calculate indicators for road accidents. Year 2017
Update of the new indicators on road accidents

Reference period: Year 2017
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Date of last update: 19 May 2021
Modalities of use of websites by enterprises
The estimates are obtained using directly Internet data (year 2018)

Reference period: Year 2018
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Date of last update: 08 May 2020
Use of the Open Street Map to calculate indicators for road accidents. Year 2016
Istat proposes the calculation of new indicators on road accidents

Reference period: Year 2016
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Date of last update: 03 July 2019
Modalities of use of websites by enterprises
The estimates are obtained using directly Internet data (year 2017)

Reference period: Year 2017
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Date of last update: 08 June 2018