In 2024, analysts from the Center for Strategic Analytics and Big Data of the ISSEK and developers of the iFORA big data intellectual analysis system implemented a number of methodological innovations, improving the results of semantic text analysis and increasing the security and efficiency of the iFORA big data analysis system infrastructure. They shared their achievements during a series of methodological webinars on new solutions in big data analysis, which took place in November 2024 and consisted of three sessions.

For the third year in a row, the HSE ISSEK Centre for Strategic Analysis and Big Data holds a series of webinars on the methodological innovations of the iFORA system. During this series of events, the Centre’s employees will share their experience in applying new methodological solutions in big data analysis. Additionally, the developers of the iFORA big data intelligent analysis system will demonstrate its effectiveness using real cases. The webinars will take place on November 13, 15 and 18, 2024.Young researchers, senior undergraduate and graduate students at the National Research University Higher School of Economics and all those interested in semantic text analysis technologies are invited to participate. The case studies will focus on human capital development and the current education agenda.

As the situation with COVID-19 has shown, mistakes associated with insufficiently developed policy measures in medicine, science, education and other socially significant sectors of the economy are very costly for society. In the July issue of Nature, First Vice-Rector, HSE ISSEK Director Leonid Gokhberg discussed the topic of the growing practice of making management decisions based on big data analysis.