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contractor during the maintenance period since the maintenance and repair
process are in need of a large number of manpower with high skills.
In conclusion, the module of Price Intelligence is further expected to reduce
the burden in DOSM states which involve in the consumer price collection that
is conducted on the monthly or weekly basis. This is because Price Intelligence
can provide us with the data from the online source. Web scraping from the
internet is an efficient way of collecting the data needed in the CPI. Having said
that, few methodological issues as well as legal consideration are needed to be
resolved before such an approach can be implemented in the official CPI. In
terms of legal aspect, although acquiring data automated from the online
sources are now becoming common things especially on dealing with the
statistical data collection, most of the online sources that crawled did not
mention any clear restriction on automatic data acquisition. Since DOSM is the
official statistics agency, there is act that permit DOSM to do data collection.
However this need to be made up clearly and should be made officially by
make amendment to the current statistical act accordingly.
At the same time, some literatures and researches based on the practices
of other countries in dealing with the Big Data are also conducted. Inasmuch,
the price is indeed intelligence in itself but the human intellectuality in making
choices based on the prices information must unfailingly takes precedence.

Reference
1. StatsBDA Bullet Volume 2 (Editorial Board, STATSBDA Team c/o
Methodology and Research Team) Reference:
http://bigdata.black/infrastructure/platforms/history-of-big-data/

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