#LLMs are transforming classification! 🇳🇴 Statistics Norway tested various GPT models for COICOP coding, while 🇮🇹
@mm-istat-news-bot.bsky.social used Gemma-2 for sentiment analysis in tourism. Eurostat’s nowcasting competition proved that simple models can complement short-term statistics #NTTS2025

#RStats was in the spotlight! 🇪🇸 INE's new ineapir package makes querying Spanish stats easier, while PCBS ditched Excel for R pipelines - saving days of work! Plus, an EMOS project modernized Eurostat viz, replacing Excel graphs with R markdown code. #NTTS2025

The #BigData Hackathon winners showcased cutting-edge dashboards: tracking ice coverage, EU-wide PM2.5 pollution both using data from Sentinel @copernicusecmwf.bsky.social, and impervious land footprint using deep learning. Geospatial + AI is shaping the future of environmental stats! #NTTS2025