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SAUG and SACE: Status Report

This report outlines the achievements of SAUG and SACE, including the release of JD+ 2.0.0, documentation availability, training and coaching efforts, and upcoming agendas for both groups.

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SAUG and SACE: Status Report

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  1. SAUG and SACE: Status Report Point 2.3 SAEG Meeting – July 7th, 2015

  2. Outline • Quick report on what has already been achieved by SAUG and SACE • JDemetra+, Documentation, Helpdesk, Assistance, Trainings etc. • What is on the agendas of the 2 groups • JDemetra+, Plug-ins, Training, studies etc.

  3. SAUG and SACE meetings, reports • SACE • Intermediary report (first year of activity) released in April 2015; • Last coordination meeting in Paris (19/05/2015) • SAUG • Last meeting in Paris (18/05/2015) • All minutes, reports and documents available on the CROS portal

  4. What has been achieved? • Release of JD+ 2.0.0 in February • Long testing period by SACE and SAUG • Complete documentation available (see next presentation by SG) • Moving to JD+ 2.0.0 • Already done or on-going in several institutes : INE Portugal, INSEE, STATEC, Eurostat (some units), TurkStat, Statistics Finland etc. • Coaching : Statistics Denmark, ELSTAT, CSO Ireland

  5. Cooperation SAUG-SACE on JD+ • Members of the 2 groups test JD+ and prepare (or did) the move to JD+. • Some points raised by the SAUG: • Seasonality Tests: Definition, Comparison • AMI in JD+ Tramo: Parsimony of ARIMA models

  6. Helpdesk • Very active • Some statistics as of 10/06/2015 • 64 questions, 32 institutes • 2 technical problems with JIRA: link broken and large delay in the answer for several cases.

  7. Training and Coaching • Training at ELSTAT in February; coaching since. • Working with Statistics Denmark (Karen Keller) to use JD+ through SAS • Working with Irish CSO (Brian Cahill) to move to JD+

  8. International Conferences • To promote JD+ • NTTS 2015 (Brussels, May 2015) • 35th International Symposium on Forecasting (Riverside, June 21-24).

  9. On the Agenda (1) • Ongoing improvement of the documentation • Ongoing testing of JD+, Helpdesk • Migration to JD+ • SAUG will pilot a template on different institutes SA practices and plans. • Using JD+ in production: various experiments • Using the cruncher with SAS. • Using JD+ modules with R. • Using a web service.

  10. On the Agenda (2) • Training for users • Lots of material from SACE members and partners. • Synthesis and first draft for December. • Training for developers • Difficult task, impressive work from NBB and BBk • First training for “new developers” scheduled in Eurostat September 15-17 (Trainers: BBk, NBB, Insee) SACE 10

  11. On the Agenda (3) Plug-ins First draft for governance of new Plug-ins available Ongoing tests on the Benchmarking plug-in (ONS leader) SAUG will propose a prioritized list of user requests First works on new Plug-ins: Output and Quality reporting (Insee – Istat) Calendar effects (Insee-NBB) Difficult: need to “become a developer”

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