Patrick Buckley Robot Waiters – The future or just a gimmick? As we continue to battle the COVID-19 pandemic, the hospitality industry is looking to technology as a way to keep workers safe. Could robot waiters be the answer? In...
Patrick Buckley How will AI change the labour market for the better? From the way we shop, to the way we learn, the digital world in which we live is unrecognisable from the reality of a decade ago. One area which...
Olivia Brookhouse IoT and Big Data in football to enable intelligent decision making IoT and Big Data in sport are becoming ever more prevalent, bringing value to not only players but spectators too. Football, although a seemingly basic sport with a just...
Richard Benjamins. From Data Exhaust to Data-Driven: How CEOs face Big Data Since Big Data became a buzzword in the board room of companies some years ago (thanks to McKinsey’s report “Big Data: The next frontier for innovation, competition, and productivity”), many...
LUCA Deep Learning and satellite images to estimate the impact of COVID19 Motivated by the fact that the Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) pandemic has caused worldwide turmoil in a short period of time since December 2019, we estimate the negative impact of...
LUCA Success Story: LUCA Transit and Highways England The transport industry is very receptive to the application of Big Data and Artificial Intelligence strategies, as there are clear use cases that can maximize a companies’ efficiency and...
LUCA Case Study: LUCA Tourism and Royal Palace Visitors Analysis Madrid receives almost 6 million international tourists annually, who come to the city to see the history, soak up the sunshine and experience the culture. In addition to this...
LUCA How Germany Moves project wins at the German Online Communications Awards In another post from the start of this year, which you can read here, we presented the interactivty mobility map that our colleagues at Telefónica NEXT in Germany had created....
Big Data joins the fight against cancerLUCA 13 September, 2018 The medical community continues to make ground breaking discoveries every day, but with a survival rate of only 50% (Cancer Research UK), we still have a long way to go until we live in a cancer free world. Even with these technological advances, the complicated and diverse disease affects everybody. Although many common types of cancer are curable (breast, prostate, testicular, cervical, melanoma, thyroid and Hodgkin Lymphoma), more must be done to ensure a better future for cancer patients. One of the biggest constraints on cancer research today is the lack of large data-sets that show how patients have responded to various treatments. Could Big Data be the key to unlocking the cure? The Universal Cancer Databank (UCD), set up for free by Australian Billionaire Andrew Forrest and creator of the Eliminate Cancer Initiative (ECI), is a worldwide anonymised database where cancer patients and survivors can input their medical details to aid others in their position. It has the potential to help in the development of better treatments, and speed up the process of discovering new ones. The UCD project aims to connect a range of existing and developing database projects into a unified databank, including the UK’s landmark BRIAN database, led by Britain’s major brain tumour charity. The organisation is derived from a series of landmark national Brain Cancer Missions launched in the UK, China and Australia, as the governments of those countries recognise that global participation is necessary to progress research. So far those missions have raised £110 million towards a global goal of £500 million, including over £7 million from the Minderoo Foundation, to develop a new international collaboration around brain cancer, including data sharing and the launch of a major adaptive clinical trial for glioblastoma. Figure 2. Tessa Jowell Ex-UK MP Baroness Tessa Jowell became the first person to donate their medical information to the site. The 70-year-old mother of two was diagnosed with an aggressive form of brain tumour in May 2017, a diagnosis she kept secret from the public until September last year when she tweeted: “Thank you for so much love and support on my birthday. More people living longer better lives with cancer is my birthday pledge”. She has been praised around the world for her bravery and selflessness, with cancer researchers calling her donation a ‘game changer’ in the medical field. Despite the conviction and dedication of cancer victim Tessa Jowell, concerns around data sharing exist among the public amid growing privacy concerns. There is a risk that people can be identified even when data is pseudonymised. At LUCA, we always work with anonymised and aggregated data to ensure privacy. Nevertheless, one must question the value of one’s privacy when joining the fight against cancer. Should it be a part of our society to share our medical data to advance cancer treatments? Tessa sadly lost her fight in May of this year at the age of 70. Rest in peace. Written by Lucy Beardsley Don’t miss out on a single post. Subscribe to LUCA Data Speaks. You can also follow us on Twitter, YouTube and LinkedIn Four design principles for developing sustainable AI applicationsHow to select AI and Big Data use cases?
Patrick Buckley Robot Waiters – The future or just a gimmick? As we continue to battle the COVID-19 pandemic, the hospitality industry is looking to technology as a way to keep workers safe. Could robot waiters be the answer? In...
Patrick Buckley How will AI change the labour market for the better? From the way we shop, to the way we learn, the digital world in which we live is unrecognisable from the reality of a decade ago. One area which...
Patrick Buckley How AI is helping fashion retailers stay afloat With an estimated current global market value surpassing 406 billion USD, the fashion industry is one of the most significant yet vulnerable industries out there. In an ever-worsening socio-economic...
LUCA La transformación digital en la gestión del agua, ahora más que nunca Hoy en día mantenemos la incertidumbre de cuándo dispondremos de una vacuna o cuál será el impacto real en la sociedad y en la economía que nos deja esta...
Patrick Buckley Thanks to AI, the future of video-conferencing is in sight. Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, video-conferencing has become the backbone of both our work and social lives. Today, on #WorldHugDay, we take a look at some of the ways in which...
Patrick Buckley How AI and Machine Learning help to develop vaccines As Christmas approaches this year, we have all been gifted the great news that the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine has shown to be both safe and effective in creating an immune...