Welcome to our Blog Post page!
We will use this space to share exciting write-ups of big data and data science projects that are taking place at African NSOs.
If you would like to submit a Blog Post to feature on this web page, please email us at regionalhubforafrica@un.org.
| Blog Post |
Description |
Date of Issue |
| Nowcasting GDP in Nigeria |
This post takes a look at the approach and methods for applying Machine Learning to Google Trends data for nowcasting GDP in Nigeria, with some significant results. Links to a public GitHub repo are shared, providing full details of the project for others to follow. |
19 March 2025 |
| AI drives efficient and high-quality cost-of-living data in Senegal |
Integrating web scraped price data into the compilation of the Consumer Price Index (CPI) |
Coming soon! |
| Transforming Economic data using Machine Learning in The Gambia |
Automating ISIC Classification coding using the Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers (BERT) model |
Coming Soon! |