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Big Data: What it is, what it does and how it impacts the world of work
Big Data is sweeping up information on just about everything, from traditional sources of information to mobile phone use. It’s a powerful new tool for powering economic development and informing policy making that can improve people’s lives and address the growing need for new and decent jobs.
In this podcast two experts on Big Data, Veronica Escudero, Senior Economist and Lead of the Skills, Labour Market Policies and Policy Evaluation Team of the ILO Research Department, and Sveta Milusheva, Senior Economist in the Development Impact department at the World Bank and co-lead of the Bank’s Global Data Facility – Mobile Phone Data for Policy (GDF–MPD) Program, explain how Big Data works and its impacts on the world of work.
Listen to the full podcast: https://www.ilo.org/resource/article/big-data-what-it-what-it-does-and-how-it-impacts-world-work