About the webinar
The African Centre of Statistics (ACS) of the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA), as part of theStatsTalk-Africa series, will hold the webinar entitled Generative AI Applications in Economics and Statistics - Part 1 on 6 August 2024 from 11:00 to 12:30 EAT via Microsoft Teams.
The webinar will show practical uses for NSOs and other organizations of several key applications of Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) and generative AI in economics and statistics as follows:
- Large Language Models as virtual tutors for online training courses on the System of National Accounts (SNA) and the System of Economic Environmental Accounting (SEEA).
- Retrieval-Augmented Generation for data querying: using RAG to query data availability and data sources from national accounts websites using natural language.
- Extracting structured information such as statistical data from complex documents for research purposes.
The StatsTalk-Africa is a monthly webinar series being organized by the UNECA-ACS to demystify and provide a space for dialogues on data, statistics, and innovative techniques and tools among data experts and users with within ECA, Africa and rest of the world. Demystifying and unpacking statistical concepts mean that Stats Talk will have experienced speakers and practitioners from the region and across the globe.
Speakers:
- Welcome Remarks: Mr. Oliver Chinganya, Director, ECA-ACS
- Presenter: Mr. Issoufou Seidou Sanda, Statistician, EIASS, ECA-ACS
- Moderator: Ms. Uwamahoro Sandrine, Data Scientist, National Institute of Statistics of Rwanda
Registration link
Contact Persons
Ms. Ana Deveza, ECA-ACS, ana.deveza@un.org
Mr. Issoufou Seidou Sanda, ECA-ACS, seidoui@un.org
Mr. Yonas Mersha, ECA-ACS, yonas.yigezu@un.org