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POINT CENSUS [4 records]

Record 1 2026-03-31

English

Subject field(s)
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Statistical Surveys
  • Demography
CONT

In recent years, the performance of supercomputers skyrocketed, and at the same time, the access for data scientists to high performance computing technologies has been democratized, offering to policy makers the unprecedented opportunity for creating tailored policy using a completely synthetic population. Policy simulation models can take as input synthetic individuals that resemble the actual ones but are stripped out of their identities, as they are synthetic by design. Synthetic individuals are created by interlinking census data, behavioural surveys and other available data sets and the result is a synthetic population with average statistics similar to the actual one by design, to the point that one is not able to tell if an individual belongs to the real or to the synthetic population, with the advantage of being relieved of most privacy concerns.

OBS

synthetic persons; synthetic people: plural.

Key term(s)
  • synthetic persons
  • synthetic people

French

Domaine(s)
  • Intelligence artificielle
  • Sondages et enquêtes (Statistique)
  • Démographie
CONT

Sur base des données du Registre national, nous pouvons créer directement nos individus synthétiques caractérisés par les variables présentes dans celui-ci (âge, genre, commune, etc.). Ensuite, nous souhaitons «ajouter» à chaque individu un diplôme et un statut professionnel. Pour cela, nous avons choisi de nous baser sur trois tables du Census 2011. Tout d'abord, nous avons considéré une table croisant l'âge, le genre, la commune et le diplôme, ainsi qu'une autre table croisant l'âge, le genre, la commune et le statut professionnel.

Spanish

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Record 2 2011-12-20

English

Subject field(s)
  • Road Traffic
DEF

A traffic census in which the volumes of traffic passing in each direction at each point are counted separately(e. g. turning counts at a crossroads).

OBS

directional count: term and definition proposed by the World Road Association.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Circulation routière
DEF

Comptage ne portant que sur une zone restreinte et visant à déterminer les volumes de courants de circulation passant à une intersection donnée dans une direction donnée.

OBS

comptage directionnel : terme proposé par l'Association mondiale de la route.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Tránsito vial
DEF

Aforo que permite individualizar los diferentes movimientos de tráfico que pasan por una sección según su destino (por ejemplo, giros en una intersección).

OBS

aforo direccional: Término y definición propuestos por la Asociación Mundial de la Carretera.

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Record 3 2004-07-12

English

Subject field(s)
  • Statistical Graphs and Diagrams
  • Information Theory
CONT

Nevertheless, clustering real-world data sets often raises problems, since the data space is usually a high dimensional feature space. A prominent example is the application of cluster analysis to gene expression data. ... In general, most of the common clustering algorithms fail to generate meaningful results because of the inherent sparsity of the data space. In such high dimensional feature spaces data does not cluster anymore.

OBS

The modern world is full of large data sets :census data, multimedia databases, and remote sensing data, to name a few. With the aid of computers it is possible to collect scientific data on a grand scale. These examples are not "large" merely because they have many data points. They are also high dimensional, meaning that there are many measurements taken of each person, multimedia object, or point on the ground. The "data point" representing one person is made up of their age, gender, educational level, occupation, and whatever else was recorded. Suppose there are 12 attributes recorded for each person. We can think of that person's record as a point in 12 dimensional space.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Diagrammes et graphiques (Statistique)
  • Théorie de l'information

Spanish

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Record 4 1993-01-01

English

Subject field(s)
  • Census
Key term(s)
  • point census

French

Domaine(s)
  • Recensement

Spanish

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