We are pleased to inform you that the team of Statistics Poland composed of: Paulina Małek, Michał Bis (both representing the Statistical Office in Szczecin) and Jacek Maślankowski (Statistical Office in Gdańsk) proved to be the best and won the Big Data Hackathon. The event organised by the European Commission (Eurostat) was aimed at selecting the best application projects using Big Data.

On 12 and 13 April 2019, the second edition of Hackathon “ShowMeData” took place in Statistics Poland. Participants had been coding for almost 24 hours!

Polish official statistics ranked fourth in the world in 2018 and among the countries of Eastern Europe (Belarus, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Hungary, Moldova, Romania, Russia, Ukraine, Slovakia) on the 1st place in the Open Data Inventory ranking (ODIN), which assesses the coverage and openness of data on the websites of national statistical offices.

It contains basic indices of the socio-economic situation of the country, presented in the monthly, quarterly and annual series, including, among others, the national accounts, information on demography, the labour market, wages and salaries, social benefits, prices, money supply, public finances and finances of non-financial enterprises, investment outlays, agriculture, industry, construction, transport, domestic and foreign trade, along with monthly or quarterly data characterising the socio-economic situation of voivodships and EU countries.

It provides a short-term analysis of phenomena and processes in the national economy, including monthly, quarterly and annual information, among others, on the labour market, prices, wages and salaries, basic areas of the national economy (agriculture, industry, construction, the domestic market), foreign trade, money supply and public finances.