Migration: The Needle in the Data Haystack

Migration: The Needle in the Data Haystack

With migration continuing to make headlines in the media, a new episode of the Office for National Statistics’ (ONS) podcast Statistically Speaking unpacks what actually defines a “migrant”, and how the UK’s largest producer of official statistics goes about estimating them.  Madeleine Sumption, Director of the Migration Observatory at the University of Oxford, tells podcast host Miles Fletcher:  “I think in people’s minds, when they think about…

Tracking Refugee Movements with AI Models: Data-Driven Insights into Migration and Political Shifts

AI, when coupled with Data Analytics, offers a powerful toolkit to process vast volumes of unstructured data, predict future flows, and understand the downstream impacts on host countries and regions. AI-driven forecasts are now embedded in regional policy planning, electoral risk modelling, and intelligence analysis. Agent-Based Simulation is a decentralised model where refugees are treated as individual agents with probabilistic rules. Moving …