Miryam Artigas Telefónica Aura receives the award as a leading Artificial Intelligence company at the GLOTEL Awards Last week, Telecoms.com, the digital transformation news platform, held the seventh edition of the Global Telecoms Awards (GLOTEL Awards) in central London. Like every year, experts from around the...
Richard Benjamins The RAE launches LEIA with Telefónica, Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Twitter and Facebook Last Friday, Chema Alonso and I had the opportunity to attend the closing session of the 16th Congress of the Association of Spanish Language Academies (ASALE) in Seville organised...
LUCA Telco Data Analytics Europe The third annual Telco Data Analytics Europe conference takes place in Madrid on the 24th and 25th of October. The two-day conference will see over 60 pioneers of data...
LUCA 5 medical uses of Virtual Reality One of the technologies where Machine Learning plays an important, though not always very evident role, is Virtual Reality. Virtual Reality (or VR as it is often abbreviated to)...
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 The new Spain: redrawing the country using mobility data One of the most exciting fields that the use of data opens up is the study of networks. Our societies, communications, infrastructure, businesses and many other areas of life...
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...
Ana Zamora Big Data and Tourism: How this Girona Festival became Data-Driven Every year, from the 9th to the 17th of May, Girona celebrates the “Temps de Flors”, one of the most popular flower festivals in Europe. For ten days, the...
LUCA International call traffic may tell you more than first thought This post debates the value of international phone calls in understanding society. Telefónica has a wide global infrastructure of networks which can be used by other service providers to carry...
Richard Benjamins Artificial Intelligence: What even is that? Artificial Intelligence (AI) is the hottest topic out there at the moment, and often it is merely associated with chatbots such as Siri or other cognitive programs such as...
Florence Broderick Telefónica Mannequin Challenge Today in the office we decided to do our very own Mannequin Challenge, bringing together employees from all over Telefónica. This viral internet craze has even frozen the internet...
LUCA Can Mobile Data combat Climate Change in Germany? One of our favourite topics here at LUCA is using Big Data for Social Good, to measure our progress on Sustainable Development Goals. Three of the 17 goals are...
LUCA Commuter Traffic: Can Big Data solve the problem? When we sit in our daily traffic jams, many of us may think: Where do the other commuters come from? Where are they on their way to? Are we...
Florence Broderick Big Dating: Could AI be the real matchmaker on Tinder? Online dating platforms such as Tinder, Happn and Hinge are seeing exponential growth, slowly sliding on to the home screens of smartphone users all over the world. Last week...
Ana Zamora LUCA at Big Data Spain 2016: Our Full Roundup Over the past 2 days our LUCA team have been in full force at the Big Data Spain 2016 event, which was held this year in Kinepolis in the...
Richard Benjamins Open Data and Business – a paradox? While Open Data has a wide range of definitions, Wikipedia provides one of the most commonly accepted: “Open Data is the idea that some data should be freely available...
Florence Broderick The Data Transparency Lab Conference 2016 kicks off tomorrow By Ramon Sangüesa, Data Transparency Lab coordinator. This week the 2016 edition of the Data Transparency Lab conference will take place. In this event, a community of technologists, researchers, policymakers...
Olivia Brookhouse Big Data, the fuel for Digital Banks In 1981, Bill Gates said “640KB will be enough for anybody”. Surpisingly, it was hard even then, to imagine where we would be today; in a sea of data....
Olivia Brookhouse The Data hiding behind Halloween Big Data and Artificial Intelligence are shaping the future of business with data insights, personalised content and improved user experiences and Halloween, one of the biggest consumer holidays, is...
LUCA The best Data Science certifications Over the last 10 years, the amount of data we have generated has soared to unprecedented heights. It is said that by 2020, each person will be generating 1.7...
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...
LUCA Machine Learning to analyze League of Legends Written by David Heras and Paula Montero, LUCA Interns, and Javier Carro Data Scientist at LUCA When League of Legends was released in 2009, few people could have predicted what...
