AI of Things LUCA and the UN World Data Forum: 7 ways mobile data is being used to change the world It’s just 6 days now until the United Nations World Data Forum in Cape Town and today we are honoured to be featured as guest contributors on their blog,...
AI of Things Aim for 2017: Change the World Have you already made your New Year’s resolutions? How would you feel if one of those was to change the world? Three nights ago millions of people had 12 grapes...
AI of Things LUCA’s First White Paper: Surviving the AI Hype LUCA has published its first white paper today entitled “Surviving the AI Hype – Fundamental concepts to understand Artificial Intelligence“. Written by Dr Richard Benjamins, this piece aims to...
AI of Things Our Christmas Lip Sync It’s been a busy few months since our LUCA launch in October, but finally the time has come to have a few days rest and enjoy the festive spirit....
AI of Things The refugee crisis and Syrian Civil War; a humanitarian issue reflected through data When we finish the year we always look to the past to weigh up the good and the bad moments of the year (trying to make the most of...
AI of Things Where are people from Madrid going during the upcoming December holidays? During the early December bank holiday many of us take the opportunity to relax, discover new places or return to our countries of origin. This time, as a further...
AI of Things The 5 most in-demand Big Data profiles in 2017 With Big Data falling off the Gartner Emerging Technology Hype Cycle this year, and Artificial Intelligence now hogging the limelight, we decided to take a look at the most...
AI of Things International call traffic may tell you more than first thought This post debates the value of international phone calls in understanding society. Telefónica has a wide global infrastructure of networks which can be used by other service providers to carry...
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...
Marta Mª Padilla Foubelo Dark Markets in the internet age What are Dark Markets or Black Markets? This concept has been in the news for a long time as a consequence of clandestine sales. The markets for drugs and...
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...
Alexandre Maravilla Web3 and the evolution of Internet Identity The recent rise of Web3; the new evolution of the Internet to make it decentralised through Blockchain, is also bringing a lot of talk about decentralised identity schemes and...
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...