Patrick Buckley How IoT technology is helping candy producers make sweet profits! From chocolate bars to lollipops, gumdrops to Haribos, the confectionary industry is now worth an estimated 210$ billion worldwide. With the industry experiencing strong growth, it is no surprise...
Olivia Brookhouse When will Robots find a place in the Smart Home? With the mass introduction of smart speakers, smart doorbells, smart fridges and even smart toilets there is a world of possibilities when it comes to innovating our homes. Whilst...
Richard Benjamins. Big Data: What’s the economic value of it? How do we put an economic value on Big Data initiatives in our organizations? How can we measure the impact of such projects in our businesses? How can we...
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 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 What does Big Data tell us about the way people move around Brazil’s favelas? Brazil has seen its fair share of the world’s media spotlight in the past year, with positive storylines around the success of the Rio Olympics, as well as more...
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...
Richard Benjamins. Artificial Intelligence is disrupting the law as we know it Years ago, science fiction movies used to seem very futuristic to us – making us feel detached from the remarkable innovations we saw from scene to scene. However, what...
Álvaro Alegría When Michelangelo invented Big Data They say that Michelangelo was asked about his impressive technique in sculpting the Pietà in just one piece, his answer was: “The sculpture was already inside of the stone....
LUCA 5th Annual CDO Forum in London will see Chema Alonso take to the stage The role of the CDO in today’s business environment has been further cemented by the creation of events like the CDO Forum. This event gives a platform for the...
LUCA How can AI enhance Cancer treatment and detection? The medical sector is constantly trying new medicine and drug combinations to help lead to the most effective cancer treatment. There are an endless number of new cancer drugs...
LUCA Strata Data Conference London 2017 The upcoming Strata Data Conference London 2017 event aims to bring together the best data scientists from across the world, presenting the most innovative trends and solutions related to...
LUCA World Health Day: Using Big Data to address depression Last week was World Health Day, sponsored by the World Health Organization (WHO). This year, the day is focused on raising awareness about the prevalence of depression through the “Depression:...
Richard Benjamins. Are you ready to become the CDO? Applying Analytics to the CDO role As we have seen from an earlier post on CDOs, Chief Data Officers are becoming more popular. Increasingly more organizations are understanding that data is a strategic asset and...
LUCA LUCA White Paper: Data as a Force for Good LUCA’s second white paper sees Dr Richard Benjamins looking at data as a force for good. This piece focuses on giving readers the ability to analyse the possibilities of...
LUCA Join us for the first Big Data for Social Good in Action event Mark your calendars for Thursday, 18th May to join us for LUCA‘s first-ever Big Data for Social Good in Action meetup. Figure 1: Join us for Big Data for Social...
LUCA New developments in fitness and health data The explosion of Big Data surrounding our daily lives is not a recent trend. Still it is continuously growing and developing new functions everyday, including the growing use of...
Patrick Buckley How IoT technology is helping candy producers make sweet profits! From chocolate bars to lollipops, gumdrops to Haribos, the confectionary industry is now worth an estimated 210$ billion worldwide. With the industry experiencing strong growth, it is no surprise...
Carlos Ávila WhatsApp Terms and Conditions Update: A Cheeky Move? Surely by now many have already accepted the new terms and privacy policies without really knowing what they were about or their impact on the privacy of their data,...
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...
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...
