Data Matters Festival
A full day journey and the first of its kind in Palestine, it’s a completely free one-day event to attend Data Talks by data enthusiasts and a chance to learn, grow
Think Data Science Program
Today, successful data professionals understand that they must advance the traditional skills of analyzing large amounts of data to uncover insights for organizational
Data Science for Executives & Leaders
This program aims to train executives and leaders of institutions and all other supervisory positions on the concept of data science to achieve the maximum benefit of it.
Data Science for Schools
PCBS has been aware of the importance of data, that’s why many activities were designed to target school students as a specific target of data users. Activities include Schools’ Statistical Competition
Data Science Initiative Friends
اصدقاء مبادرة علوم البيانات
World Statistics Day
اليوم العالمي للاحصاء
About the celebration
Objectives of World Statistics Day Celebration
The Organizers
The Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics in its capacity as the sole source of official statistics in Palestine, continuously seeks to enhance statistical literacy and awareness of the importance of data,
Event Description
A full day journey and the first of its kind in Palestine, it’s a completely free one-day event to attend Data Talks by data enthusiasts and a chance to learn, grow, network and connect with Data Science communities in Palestine.
Our Story
Data science continues to evolve as one of the most promising and in-demand career paths for skilled professionals. Although ‘data science’ is a recently coined term, this field of study is an accumulation of decades of
Logo Meanings and semantics
Six Circles Highlighted in Blue
Earth and What is Inside
Hisham’s Palace is one of the important tourist landmarks in Palestine. It is located in the City of the Moon which is also named Jericho.
“I keep saying that the sexy job in the next 10 years will be statisticians, and I’m not kidding”
Hal Varian, Chief Economist at Google
“Errors using inadequate data are much less than those using no data at all.”
Charles Babbage, inventor and mathematician
“Torture the data, and it will confess to anything.”
Ronald Coase, British economist and author
“Without data you’re just another person with an opinion.”
W. Edwards Deming, statistician, professor, author, lecturer, and consultant.
“It’s easy to lie with statistics. It’s hard to tell the truth without statistics.”
Andrejs Dunkels, Swedish mathematics teacher, mathematician, and writer
“Numbers have an important story to tell. They rely on you to give them a voice.”