This is an open collaborative initiative funded by the Office of National Statistics to pursue topical research programmes on Big Data and Data Science. The activity is at cross-faculty level and involves our group IT Innovation Centre (ECS), Web and Internet Science(ECS) and also the Southampton Statistical Sciences Research Institute(S3RI. Interest in the state of the art on big data intelligent processing and extraction of knowledge is the essence of this activity. This is applied to operational survey activities by ONS and for advancing in context of capturing added value knowledge and information from Big Data resources.