Space-Time Research works with official statistics providers in the areas of health, utilities, transportation, and education, as well as with the world’s leading National Statistics Offices.
Official statistics providers are government, commercial and research organizations with a mission to share data with a diverse range of internal and external stakeholders.
For example, some official statistics providers are responsible for providing data based on government administrative data, surveys, or censuses, for example, Australian Bureau of Statistics. Others collate research data for other organizations and communities to access, for example, Cancer Council Victoria.
In the past, users found answers to their ad hoc requests by searching through reports or phoning an organization and speaking with an analyst. Depending on the complexity of their request and the analyst’s other duties, these can be slow and costly processes, and a poor use of everybody’s time.
Space-Time Research creates data provision services that enable users to instantly access the information they need. We provide access to confidentialized information via self-service tools and free up time for staff to perform their other important tasks.
Space-Time Research’s SuperSTAR products enable users at any level to access data themselves. SuperSTAR’s ‘self service’ data approach has numerous benefits to both data providers and their users:
- No waiting—instant answers to ad hoc queries
- No need to pre-aggregate results
- Confidentiality can be applied ‘on the fly’
- Multilingual applications allow for a broader audience
- Online interactive tools provide data at a finer detail with less effort
- Annotations improve the value of the data
There is an ever increasing demand for data. Data providers have to handle unpredictable ad hoc requests, handle disclosure control and ensure data quality. Users are becoming more sophisticated, requiring greater levels of data access.
With the arrival of Web 2.0, disseminating this data has never been easier. The very idea of self-service analytics is now possible, but this comes with challenges. Coinciding with this is Gov 2.0 and a global push for increased government transparency and access to more data.
Data providers need to implement online, self-service solutions. At the same time, they must ensure disclosure control and data quality. They need to maximize analysts’ time and reduce budgets, but still keep up with the increasing demand for data.
Space-Time Research offers a suite of tools that answers those challenges. SuperVIEW and SuperWEB, both online data access tools, provide instant access to statistical information online.
SuperVIEW is a powerful product for provisioning rich, interactive Gov2.0 / Web 2.0 data exploration sites for either public facing or intranet deployments. It supports interactive Map-based data visualizations using ESRI ArcGIS 9.3 Server and Javascript technologies.
Through RESTful interfaces, SuperVIEW utilizes SuperSTAR's powerful data analytics engine to quickly generate ad hoc multi-dimensional tables for its visualizations from potentially large and complex underlying datasets.
The SuperVIEW technology comes in a variety of user-experience packages — the View Experience, Data Experience, and View Component Experience.
Each experience package allows for the easy creation of a type of SuperVIEW web site from core experience packages. Customers create new sites through a highly flexible configuration layer that allows them to dynamically specify what data queries to execute and how to visualize and present them to the end users. Sites can be branded and styled to act as native integrated sections of an organizational intranet or extranet.
SuperWEB is a Web solution for ad hoc tabulation, providing access and analysis of large privacy protected, confidentialized microdata tables of billions of cells.
Extremely fast queries allow for self-service querying and generation of integrated cross tabulations, charts, and maps. Data presented on a map can be examined in aggregated form or in detailed unit record view format. SuperWEB is integrated with ArcGIS and used for geospatial analysis of data in government data provider applications around the world.
Major government data providers like the US Census Bureau and the Australian Bureau of Statistics (www.abs.gov.au) are customers. SuperWEB can also be used in commercial data provider applications. SuperWEB with ESRI’s ArcGIS Server 9.3 can build Web 2.0 geospatial visualization and analysis that is the basis for Government 2.0 platforms.
