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Why Big Data Matters: Perspectives from the Libraries

World Statistics Day is celebrated around the globe on 20 October quinquennially, first celebrated in 2010. The theme of the third World Statistics Day was “Connecting the world with data we can trust”, reflecting the importance of trust, authoritative data, innovation and public good in national statistical systems. The celebration of World Statistics Day is a global collaborative endeavour, organised under the guidance of the United Nations Statistical Commission. See what Patrick Cher, Convenor of IFLA’s Big Data Special Interest Group has to say about why Big Data matters to libraries.

IFLA Big Data SIG WLIC2020 event update

Call for papers for the Big Data SIG open session at WLIC 2020 now open

The call for papers for the IFLA Big Data SIG’s open session at the forthcoming congress in Dublin, Ireland, August 15 - 21 is now open. The Big Data SIG is seeking papers focused on finding collaborative solutions to the practical challenges of working with data in libraries.

Now available: papers and presentations from WLIC 2019 satellite meeting

Both the papers and presentation slides from the WLIC2019 satellite meeting are now available from the satellite meeting webpage.

IFLA WLIC 2019 preconference satellite meeting on Data Intelligence in libraries