LUCA Chiemsee-Alpenland Tourism and Telefónica Next Examine visitors to the Chiemsee lake Original post by Cécile Schneider, Telefónica NEXT The touristic region of Chiemsee-Alpenland and our colleagues at Telefónica NEXT used data analysis to examine the profile of visitors to the Chiemsee...
LUCA III Impact Innovation Talks: Big Data’s new challenges, achievements and opportunities Yesterday, the 16th of November, the III Impact Innovation Talks was held and was organized by Telefónica Open Future together with PWN Madrid. This third edition of a talk series with the slogan #WomansAge aims...
Beatriz Sanz Baños FIWARE, the standard that IoT needs What is FIWARE? FIWARE is an open source initiative that works towards building a set of standards to develop Smart applications for different domains such as Smart Cities, Smart Ports,...
Beatriz Sanz Baños The Smart mining revolution The integration of IoT in smart mining manages to connect its employees with their work environment, providing different benefits that reduce the percentage of accidents. Since its inception, safety has...
Samuel Bonete Redefining Cloud Security with SASE Stop for a moment and think: what percentage of your Internet traffic ends up on websites or traditional browsing and what proportion on SaaS services? If we analyse it...
ElevenPaths ElevenPaths Radio English #1 – Skills of a Cybersecurity Professional In this first episode, our CSA Deepak Daswani discusses what a true cybersecurity professional must have to be valuable to companies.
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...
LUCA 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...
LUCA 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...
LUCA 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...
LUCA 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...
LUCA 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...
LUCA 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...
LUCA Are you Ready for a Wild World? Don’t miss out on Big Data for Social Good 2018! Ready for a Wild World? Our next Big Data for Social Good event will be dedicated to Climate Change and Disaster Preparedness Although we often associate Big Data with worries...
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...
Gabriel Bergel Risk Analysis Applied to COVID-19 Our CSA Gabriel Bergel shows you how to apply the Risk Analysis methodology to the management of the COVID-19 threat.
ElevenPaths How the “antimalware” XProtect for MacOS works and why it detects poorly and badly Recently, MacOS included a signature in its integrated antivirus, intended to detect a binary for Windows; but, does this detection make sense? We could think it does, as a...
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...
