1. PX strikes back! Lorenzo Bruni PC-Axis 2018, Bilbao (SP)
PX strikes back!
PC-Axis 2018, Bilbao (SP)

2. New look

3. IT MAY, HOWEVER, BE A MISTAKE TO JUMP TO CONCLUSIONS
FUN STATS
Brexit
Referendum Results
Mad Cow
Disease outbreak
NISRA (Belfast)
CSO (Cork)
Leave
Stay
Sick
Healthy
IT MAY, HOWEVER, BE A MISTAKE TO JUMP TO CONCLUSIONS

4. From API to M2M: Let’s make it practical
API – Application Program Interfaces
M2M – Machine To Machine

5. Talk to…
Google Assistant
Amazon Alexa
Facebook Messenger

6. The Options: Seeking for a good balance
* UAT – User Acceptance Test

7. Learning from… PxWeb .Stat Suite SIS-CC* PxStat
PX Reference Group 2016
PX Reference Group 2017
Learning from…
PxWeb
PC-Axis Community
PX format
API / JSON-Stat
More…
.Stat Suite
SIS-CC*
Data Management
Modularity
Open Source (almost)
More…
PxStat
Best of both
Controls & Workflows
Open Source (for real)
* SIS-CC: Statistical Information System – Collaboration Community
* Statistical Information System – Collaboration Community

8. PxStat Open Source Responsive Design Modular Design
3 Tiers Architecture (goodbye MVC)
Abstracted Statistical Entity
Access & Confidentiality Controls
Version & Change Controls
Release & Approval Workflows
Very Short Timeline
Age of systems

9. The Technology: Light, Modular, Flexible

10. PxStat Technology Modular T3 Front-End Modular T1 Modular T2 SQL DB
* LOD – Linked Open Data
Front-End
Modular T3
Services
Visuals
LOD*
Other…
Modular T1
2016 Standard
SQL DB
NoSQL Cache
Other…
Modular T2
APIs

11. ASE: Abstracted Statistical Entity
* UAT – User Acceptance Test

12. Current Scenario ENGINE PX PX JSON-Stat CSV format black box format
schema
CSV
black box PX
format
ENGINE
* SIS-CC: Statistical Information System – Collaboration Community
* Statistical Information System – Collaboration Community

13. ASE - Abstracted Statistical EntityPX
format
ASE
JSON-Stat
schema
CSV
format
SDMX
standard
Other…
other
* SIS-CC: Statistical Information System – Collaboration Community
* Statistical Information System – Collaboration Community

14. Performance with ASE Like for like… OVER 120 FASTER Really?! YES
* UAT – User Acceptance Test

15. Access & Confidentiality Controls Who, What, Why

16. Access & Confidentiality Controls
Modular
Active Directory
LDAP
Other…
Modular
Administrator
Other…
Power User
Approver
Moderator
Users
Privileges
Pre-Releases
Your call…
Groups
* UAT – User Acceptance Test

18. Version & Change Controls History and Transparency

19. Version & Change Controls
Product: Consumer Price Index
Release: September 2018
Date: 21st October 2018 at 09:00
Version: 1
Revision: 0
Reason: Scheduled Release
Product: Consumer Price Index
Change: Rounding fixed
Version: 1
Revision: 1
Product: Consumer Price Index
Change: Figure fixed
Version: 1
Revision: 2
Product: Consumer Price Index
Release: September 2018
Date: 23st October 2018 at 13:08
Version: 2
Revision: 0
Reason: Emergency Release
Change: Rounding fixed
Change: Figure fixed
* UAT – User Acceptance Test

21. Release & Approval Workflows Schedule and Process

22. Release & Approval Workflows
Request to Release
Approve
Release
Publish
Moderator
Approver
Power User
Reject
Reject
Administrator
* UAT – User Acceptance Test

24. The Agenda: Making things happening

25. Timeline 2018 2019 End of End of January April Today IE + IT + FR + BGQ Q Q Q
Hiring
On track
Delay
Design
Planned & Not Started
Development
Milestone
System Test
UAT
Live Release
ESSnet LOD
IE + IT + FR + BG
LOD/Open Source Prep
IE + IT + FR + BG + NI + YOU
Open Source

26. Always Encrypted: Confidential computing

27. Encryption
By Infrastructure
By Design
* UAT – User Acceptance Test

28. Confidential Computing
Computations without seeing the data
Protecting data in use from:
Malicious insiders (i.e. DBA)
Rogue Admins
Hackers and Malware
Third party access
Tampering
* UAT – User Acceptance Test

29. Ask, don’t be shy
…and I won’t bite ;-)