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<span style="color: rgb(32, 33, 36); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The 8th UN Committee of Experts on Big Data and Data Science for Official Statistics will take place June 10-14 in Bilbao, Spain. Topics will include the application of various big
data and AI approaches to global sustainability challenges: </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="https://unstats.un.org/bigdata/events/2024/conference/" target="_blank" id="OWAf6325dff-1221-6267-4c02-1d85a480b31b" class="ms-outlook-linkify OWAAutoLink" data-ogsc="" style="margin: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: left;">https://unstats.un.org/bigdata/events/2024/conference/</a></span><span style="color: rgb(32, 33, 36); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Semantic web and its use for data and model interoperability is one of the conference themes.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Cheers,<br>
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