Patrick Buckley COVID-19 Shines a light on the huge possibilities of AI in Education In 2020 remote learning platforms have become essential for students around the world as a result the COVID-19 pandemic. Many of these platforms incorporate Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology which continues to...
Olivia Brookhouse The Big Data and IoT applications fighting coronavirus The coronavirus pandemic has truly turned our lives upside down, changing how we work, study and interact in every way. The global health crisis has tested every government’s ability...
AI of Things Rebuilding Mocoa with Big Data The possibilities of Big Data to contribute to social good are infinite and has proven itself as an indispensable tool to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals by 2030. The natural...
Olivia Brookhouse Can Big Data help reduce Deforestation in the Amazon? The disturbing images and videos of the Amazon ablaze last month were truly shocking and saddening. Not only trees, but wildlife, animals, habitats and homes burned to the...
Richard Benjamins Towards a new Big Data ecosystem to mitigate Climate Change Big Data can be used to help fight Climate Change [1],[2],[3]. Several projects have analysed huge amounts of satellite, weather and climate data to come up with ways to...
AI of Things Analysing tourist profiles in Spain with INE Tourism is one of the main sectors of economic activity in Spain. According to the National Institute of Statistics (INE), an autonomous body under the Ministry of Economy in...
AI of Things Mobility patterns in Lima and Callao based on Big Data technology We often think of Big Data as something exclusive to private companies. But one of the clearest applications is that of public bodies who want to improve the lives...
AI of Things Big Data joins the fight against cancer 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...
AI of Things Ready for a Wild World: Big Data is key for humanitarian issues The Big Data for Social Good event organized by LUCA, “Ready for a Wild World“, took place on May 24th and brought together experts from relevant global organizations and...
AI of Things Using Data to Manage Emergency Situations Content originally written by Carmen Rodríguez, intern at LUCA, and Javier Carro, Data Scientist within LUCA’s Big Data for Social Good area. What would you say if we told you...
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...
Beatriz Sanz Baños Barriers to IoT adoption Internet of Things is constantly growing. There are more and more objects in our familiar environments that work connected through the network. It makes our everyday activities easier in...
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...
