LUCA 7 Big Data events in May May is fast approaching and we’re excited to announce a series of events we’ll be taking part in throughout Europe. Take a look and follow us on Twitter to...
Ana Zamora Open Algorithms, what are they? Yves-Alexandre de Montjoye explains Yves – Alexandre de Montjoye is a lecturer at Imperial College London’s new Data Science Institute. As a postdoctoral researcher at Harvard IQSS, his main field of research focuses on metadata...
Beatriz Sanz Baños Blockchain opportunities for IoT Blockchain technology offers a wide variety of applications in different productive sectors. Financial services, informatics security, cryptocurrency or merchandise supply chains are some of them.
Beatriz Sanz Baños IoT in Hotels The digitization of the economy is reaching all areas of our society. One sector that is more evolved with the application of Internet of Things is tourism. More and...
ElevenPaths The Data Transparency Lab strengthens its work on data transparency after investing over one million euros in three years Barcelona becomes the permanent headquarters of the DTL Annual Conference, which will take place from 11 to 13 December. The DTL is a clear example of the various innovation projects...
Innovation and Laboratory Area in ElevenPaths Uncovering APTualizator: the APT that patches Windows By the end of June 2019, we assisted to an incident were a high number of computers had started to reboot abnormally. In parallel, Kaspersky detected a file called swaqp.exe, which apparently...
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 Success Story: pioneering project for economic and social development In a previous article we talked about how important it is to undertake a cultural transformation, that is, of individuals, whilst a company or sector undertakes a digital transformation...
LUCA Improving intent to purchase with mobile advertising: Success Story of Milpa Real The Kantar Millward study demonstrates the effectiveness of the Mobile Advertising platform Data Rewards. The objective of the Brand Lift study is to measure the effectiveness of an advertising campaign,...
LUCA How the workers travel to Distrito T? Written by LUCA Big Data for Social Good Team. Telefónica operates in 17 countries and has presence in 24, however its central offices can be found in Madrid, in a...
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 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 Traffic spikes before football games? The effect of the World Cup in Germany Post written by Telefónica NEXT Once every four years, The FIFA World Cup brings fans together in a month of surprising events. Every game is different, but each is filled...
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....
LUCA How Germany moves Our colleagues in Telefonica NEXT have created, using mobility data, data analysis and big data, an interactive map that lets you visualize nationwide traffic flows. Cities, transport companies and...
Olivia Brookhouse Would you let Artificial Intelligence run Christmas? Artificial Intelligence and Big Data are transforming the workplace, providing real time insights to optimize decision making. Meanwhile at home, AI embedded home devices and online applications can accurately...
Stefan Leadbeater 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...
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...
ElevenPaths The Confirmation Bias: we seek the information that confirms our decisions, refusing their opposed evidences Imagine yourself in a lab over an experiment. You’re asked to analyze the following number sequence: 2, 4, 6 This sequence follows a rule. What do you think the rule is?...
LUCA How the fashion industry is applying Big Data and AI Season after season, retailers come up with loads of new products ready to hit shelves worldwide. While at one time, designers had no idea what their customers would like...
