Data scientists in China are using big data relating to daily web searches to help build a better picture of the country's economy. The world's largest trading nation lacks key economic metrics like survey-based unemployment rates and private manufacturing indicators and official statistics are often unreliable or incomplete. Nov 27 2016, 9:31 PMNov 29 2016, 7:59 In China, where more than half of all internet users access the Internet via mobile devices, there is also an urgent need for new ways to measure how people use their online activities.
Data scientists in China are using big data relating to daily web searches to help build a better picture of the country's economy. The world's largest trading nation lacks key economic metrics like survey-based unemployment rates and private manufacturing indicators and official statistics are often unreliable or incomplete. In China, where more than half of all internet users access the Internet via mobile devices, there is also an urgent need for new ways to measure how people use their online activities.