This page provides a clickable overview of big data sources potentially exploitable for official statistics, based on the Classification of types of big data developed in 2013 by UNECE.

1. Social networks (human-sourced information)

1100 Social networks: Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr etc.

1200 Blogs and comments

1300 Personal documents

1400 Pictures: Instagram, Flickr, Picasa etc.

1500 Videos: Youtube etc.

1600 Internet searches

1700 Mobile data content: text messages

1800 User-generated maps

1900 E-mail

1999 Other

2. Traditional business systems (process-mediated data)

21 Data produced by public agencies

2110 Medical records

Others

22 Data produced by businesses

2210 Commercial transactions

2220 Banking/stock records

2230 E-commerce

2240 Credit cards

3. Internet of things (machine-generated data)

31 Data from sensors

311 Fixed sensors

3111 Home automation

3112 Weather/pollution sensors

3113 Traffic sensors/webcam

3114 Scientific sensors

3115 Security/surveillance videos/images

3199 Other

312 Mobile sensors (tracking)

3121 Person (mobile phone location)

3122 Road (cars, trucks)

3123 Rail (trains)

3124 Air (planes)

3125 Nautical (ships)

3129 Other

313 Satellite data

3131 Topographic

3132 Thermal

3133 Surveillance

3134 Meteorological

3135 Other

32 Data from computer systems

3210 Logs

3220 Web logs