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SIGESTAT turns operational databases into accountable statistics
A statistical production system that builds publication-ready tables and yearbooks from relational databases, while letting decision-makers ask plain-language questions and receive cited answers.
Why it surfacedSIGESTAT tackles the unglamorous machinery behind national statistics: versioning tables, recording provenance, detecting source changes, and catching figures inflated by duplicating joins. Its homepage says the system has been deployed in Cameroon, runs on an institution's own servers, supports English and French, and exports to Excel, Word, JSON, and Stata.
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The 240-Material Organ
August 16’s newborn domains include a 240-material perfume organ, a repeatedly saved JPEG cat, a ski tracker designed by a 15-year-old, and a searchable page claiming to contain 148,303 prescription records.
This is one of 1,000 discoveries in the 2026-08-16 Domain Arrivals issue.