Juliana Machado, a graduate in Data Analytics from the School of Economics and Management of the University of Porto (FEP), is one of the winners of the 2025 edition of the Master’s Thesis Competition (MTC), organised by the European Union’s Statistical Office (Eurostat).
Held every two years, this competition aims to recognise the best theses presented in 2023 and 2024 by young talents holding the European Master in Official Statistics (EMOS) qualification. EMOS is a network established in 2014 by Eurostat and the European Statistical System to promote research in the field of official statistics.
The award-winning thesis, titled “New Challenges in Official Statistics: Big Data Analytics and Multi-level Product Classification of Web Scraped Data”, is the result of work conducted by Juliana Machado at the Bank of Portugal, under the supervision of professors Bruno Veloso (FEP) and Miguel Portela (U. Minho).
This year’s edition of the Master’s Thesis Competition assessed a total of 21 theses submitted by students from 13 universities across eight European countries.
Juliana Machado and the other winners will now have the opportunity to present their work at the New Techniques and Technologies for Statistics (NTTS) conference, which will be held from 11 to 13 March 2025 in Brussels.
This is not the first time that FEP’s alumna has been recognised by Eurostat. In 2023, Juliana Machado and two other Master in Data Analytics students received the award for best team in the EMOS network at the European Big Data Hackathon, a competition that challenges teams from across Europe to present solutions for statistical problems.
FEP’s Master in Data Analytics students have access, under certain conditions, to the EMOS qualification (European Master in Official Statistics). EMOS was created by Eurostat and the European Statistical System (ESS) in 2014 with the aim of incorporating the subject of official statistics into curricula to address training and recruitment needs, and to serve as a recruitment pool for highly qualified statistical professionals for the ESS and the European System of Central Banks (ESCB).
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