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ESSnet Web Intelligence Network (WIN) Project: 2022-2023 Webinar Series | Methods of Processing and Analysis Web Scraped Tourism Data & Web Intelligence in Practice. How to use content from the web for enterprise statistics | 23 February & 10 March 2023

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2022-2023 WIN Webinar Series 

The ESSnet Web Intelligence Network (WIN) project is creating an environment where an array of non-traditional data sources can be accessed by members of the European Statistics System (ESS) and beyond. To help build capability in this community, the project will be delivering a series of webinars and a face-to-face workshop covering the following subjects:

  • Architecture, Methodology and Quality – Nov 2023 – available to watch on
  • Business Registers Quality Enhancements – Jan 2023 – available to watch on
  • Tourism Statistics – Feb 2023
  • Web Intelligence in Practice – Satellite event at the NTTS Conference (in-person workshop in Brussels)- Mar 2023 – registration now open

The next webinar organized under the WIN project is now available to book on Eventbrite. More information below.

For additional information on WIN, please access the project’s work packages, blogs and trainings pages or contact the project team at ESSnet.project@ons.gov.uk.

23 February 2023 at 14:00 CET

Webinar: Methods of Processing and Analysis Web Scraped Tourism Data

This webinar will discuss the issues of data sources available in tourism statistics. We will present how to search for new data sources and how to analyse them. We will review and apply methods for merging and combining the web scraped data with other sources, using various programming environments. We will also look at different methods for removing any duplicates found in the merged dataset.  To book your place visit our Eventbrite page.

10 March 2023 from 09:00-13:00 CET, Brussels

Workshop: Web Intelligence in Practice. How to use content from the web for enterprise statistics

The workshop is face-to-face satellite event at the NTTS Conference and will cover a general overview of Web Intelligence Network and Web Intelligence Hub. It will demonstrate how the Web Intelligence Platform and Datalab can be used to acquire and process data from the web. Methodological issues of conducting surveys based on web data will be explained in dedicated sessions on data collection and data processing. The course will also lead participants step by step on how to start the data acquisition with the Web Intelligence Platform and how to process them with the Datalab. To find out more about this course please visit the workshop page. Registrations are now open at the NTTS Conference page.

WIN Blog – We have just published our latest blog on the CROS Portal – Experimental Indices in Tourism Statistics.

UK ONS Data Science Campus blog – We have just published our latest ESSnet WIN blog on the Data Science Campus website