ONS looks to big data as it explores new ways to measure UK economy

Office for National Statistics to harvest data from traffic sensors, mobile phones and satellite images at new campus in Wales

The UK's official statistics office is looking into using traffic sensors, mobile photo data and satellite images as new ways of measuring the shape of the economy.

The Office for National Statistics (ONS) is opening a new data science campus at its headquarters in Newport, south Wales, on Monday as part of a 17m investment in the way the UK collects and presents data.