As usual, November's macroeconomic data came out and drew expert interpretations from all sides. Slightly different is that the movement from the statistical industry shows that statistics, including CPI, are facing a change. This change is an inevitable part of the big data era.
The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) has just signed a strategic cooperation agreement on big data with 11 leading companies involved in big data,**** with the same to explore how to apply big data to government statistics.
What is big data? Where is big data? What is it for? How is it used? What is the relationship with government departments? Is it not a bit of claptrap and "alarmist talk" to mention big data now?
Take two examples. In the weeks before the outbreak of influenza A (H1N1), Google Inc. looked at 50 million Americans most frequently searched for words and phrases data, found that "which is the treatment of cough and fever medication," the topic of the search frequency has increased, and thus accurately predicted the occurrence of the influenza and the scope of the spread of the flu. The U.S. subway police tracked the time and location of subway robberies, analyzed the causes and patterns, and produced prediction charts, which led to a significant drop in subway robberies. In addition to the success of the business community, big data in government management on the extraordinary "hand" is showing.
Through the exchange, integration and analysis of massive data, new knowledge is discovered, new values are created and new discoveries are made, the era of big data is coming to us.
Compared with many developed countries that have raised the development and application of big data to the height of national strategy, China's big data management is still in its infancy. Heavy qualitative, light quantitative, heavy views, light data thinking inertia, making us less sensitive in data collection, use and management. For example, what is the proportion of each of the haze pollutants? What is the saturation of urban motor vehicles? The lack of accurate data are making it difficult to make relevant decisions with precision.
Big data is not a "bluff" label, there is no need to exaggerate it, and can not turn a deaf ear, far away.
This year's National People's Congress on the two sessions of the National People's Congress, can be analyzed through the Spring Festival mobile users roaming situation, to grasp the size of the population flow and migration patterns, for traffic management, railroad transportation, public **** safety management, etc. to provide decision-making references. This is a realistic proposal to tap the value of big data.
The energy of big data often exceeds our imagination. In real estate price statistics, the bank's loan information and housing construction department of the net signature data can make the house price data more real and reliable; in the field of employment, the search engine big data can help monitor the early warning unemployment rate and labor market supply and demand situation; the road to shoot the traffic image data can help to project the amount of freight transported by the road transport, and so on. These are not whimsical, once they land, will greatly improve the refinement of government management, improve the scientific nature of decision-making. In the fields of medical health, food hygiene, geological disasters, social opinion, information security, homeland security, etc., the analysis and research of big data can effectively realize the prevention and early warning of major security, crisis and risk, and greatly improve the level of national governance.
"Whoever owns big data has the high ground. As far as the government is concerned, big data will surely become the information foundation for macro-control, national governance and social management" -- the words of Ma Jiantang, director of the National Bureau of Statistics, can be described as a high level.
Keeping pace with the development of new technologies, from the national level to consider the overall strategy for the development of big data in China, at the legislative level to regulate the protection of user privacy, the collection and release of government information, the opening of public **** data and so on - are we ready?
Never underestimate the energy of new technologies such as the Internet. By utilizing these technologies, the ability and efficiency of national governance will be greatly improved. It's all about "building a smart planet with smart analytics".