Richard Benjamins Artificial Intelligence: What even is that? Artificial Intelligence (AI) is the hottest topic out there at the moment, and often it is merely associated with chatbots such as Siri or other cognitive programs such as...
Florence Broderick Telefónica Mannequin Challenge Today in the office we decided to do our very own Mannequin Challenge, bringing together employees from all over Telefónica. This viral internet craze has even frozen the internet...
AI of Things Can Mobile Data combat Climate Change in Germany? One of our favourite topics here at LUCA is using Big Data for Social Good, to measure our progress on Sustainable Development Goals. Three of the 17 goals are...
AI of Things Commuter Traffic: Can Big Data solve the problem? When we sit in our daily traffic jams, many of us may think: Where do the other commuters come from? Where are they on their way to? Are we...
Florence Broderick Big Dating: Could AI be the real matchmaker on Tinder? Online dating platforms such as Tinder, Happn and Hinge are seeing exponential growth, slowly sliding on to the home screens of smartphone users all over the world. Last week...
Ana Zamora LUCA at Big Data Spain 2016: Our Full Roundup Over the past 2 days our LUCA team have been in full force at the Big Data Spain 2016 event, which was held this year in Kinepolis in the...
Richard Benjamins Open Data and Business – a paradox? While Open Data has a wide range of definitions, Wikipedia provides one of the most commonly accepted: “Open Data is the idea that some data should be freely available...
Florence Broderick The Data Transparency Lab Conference 2016 kicks off tomorrow By Ramon Sangüesa, Data Transparency Lab coordinator. p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 13.3px Tahoma; -webkit-text-stroke: #000000} span.s1 {font-kerning: none} This week the 2016 edition of the Data Transparency Lab conference...
AI of Things Big Data Spain 2016: Your chance to join the LUCA team? This week on the 17th and 18th of November, Big Data Spain 2016 will be taking place bringing together over 1000 Big Data experts from all over the world...
AI of Things Chatbots? New? You haven’t met ELIZA By Dr Richard Benjamins, VP for External Positioning and Big Data for Social Good at LUCA. Artificial Intelligence is a hot topic at the moment. We definitely live in the...
AI of Things 5 AI uses in Photography On our blog, we enjoy sharing the applications of Big Data and Artificial Intelligence in sectors that may surprise you. Previously, in “Dining with Data” we saw how customers...
AI of Things Coca-Cola’s use of AI to stay at the top of the drinks market Coca-Cola is the largest beverage company in the world serving over 1.9 billion drinks daily across its 500 brands. Being such a large conglomerate active in so many countries...
Olivia Brookhouse Can Artificial Intelligence understand emotions? When John McCarthy and Marvin Minsky founded Artificial Intelligence in 1956, they were amazed how a machine could perform incredibly difficult puzzles quicker than humans. However, it turns out...
Santiago Morante Cendrero Warning About Normalizing Data For many machine learning algorithms, normalizing data for analysis is a must. A supervised example would be neural networks. It is known that normalizing the data being input to...
AI of Things Expert Systems in the World of Medicine Written by Sergio Sancho Azcoitia, Security Research en ElevenPaths Since its appearance a few years ago, expert systems have been applied in different fields. Due to their effectiveness they have...
