ICSP Presentation
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Statipedia
Statipedia - a platform for collaboration across statistical agencies.
Presentation for Interagency Council on Statistical Policy, 3PM, Wednesday, September 15, 2010, at BLS conference center.
- Barry D. Nussbaum (Chief Statistician, Environmental Protection Agency)
- Peter B. Meyer (Office of Productivity, Bureau of Labor Statistics)
- James A. Buszuwski (Office of Compensation and Working Conditions, Bureau of Labor Statistics)
- Michael J. Messner (Office of Water, Environmental Protection Agency (Wiki Page))
Vision
- Tools and workspaces for statistical staff across agencies
- With source material for economists and statisticians
- Not for general public; not for sensitive materials
- Eventually: Available to new employees; Version control system; Search engine; Statistical software; and more
- To start with: a wiki -- our pilot project
Examples of Statipedia Uses
- Repository of definitions of government/statistical terms
- Technical information
- Seasonal adjustment
- Occupation and industry classification
- Systemic risk
- Handbook information brought to life ; Bibliographic categories
- Categories of data sets (e.g. on individuals)
- Probability Distributions Beta Distribution, Dirichlet Distribution
- Disease Mapping, Spatial data analysis, Methods for censored data, Markov Chain Monte Carlo
- Agency-Specific Guidance
- Personal Pages
- Those willing to network and share expertise can build their own user pages, including keywords for areas of technical expertise.
- Anyone needing help in a technical area can quickly look for it here
- Software Pages (for example, R)
- Standard format for the home pages of software package/system/program. software Category: Statistical software
- User groups for government users, including online advice and source code
- These would include links to online resources:
- Blogs (for example R-Bloggers
- User groups (for example the DC-area UseR Group)
- Wikis (for example, R Wiki and SAS Community Wiki, see recent edits)
- These would include links to online resources:
- Miscellaneous (anything that can help us work more effectively, for example,
Wiki practices and successes
We learned from and can copy other systems
- can copy norms, rules, templates, extensions, bots from wikipedia, potentially from Intellipedia, Diplopedia, Bureaupedia, Techipedia, MAX, Eurostat, and OECD
We are proposing a platform which is:
- scientific ; global ; standard; high-morale ; meets all the technical standards; scalable; cheap now and forever; open-source; the right one scientifically ; the standard in our businesses of science and government ; could be swept naturally into SCOP when the time is right
Next Steps
- Activate Statipedia on EPA-Extranet
- Convene core group of 6-10 statisticians & economists @ "Barn_Raising"
- Build the wiki with core group over 2-month period
- Add interested registered users and continue to build the wiki for additional 4 months
- Success criteria for a Statipedia pilot project