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 |
| Automating Occupation Coding in Zimbabwe: A Leap Toward Smarter Labour Statistics |
In October 2025, the Zimbabwe National Statistics Agency (ZIMSTAT) launched a transformative initiative to automate occupation coding using Natural Language Processing (NLP) and the International Standard Classification of Occupations (ISCO). Developed with technical support from the UK’s Office for National Statistics (ONS) Data Science Campus, this marks a major milestone in modernizing labour statistics across Africa.
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7 October 2025 |
| 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! |