Paloma Recuero de los Santos How should you speak to children about Artificial Intelligence? In previous years, people’s relationship with technology in general, and with artificial intelligence in particular, was based on “text”, usually using specialised programming languages. Today, however, artificial intelligence has...
Esther Cardenal AI of Things (VII): Better data, better decisions Have you ever wondered if you are using the right strategies to improve your shop’s performance? Or what you need to do to improve the customer experience at the...
Juan Manuel Ferrer Advanced Factories or how to drive the factory to a new productive dimension Many new friends and old friends. Last week we had the opportunity to share time, experiences, opportunities and business with colleagues, customers and suppliers. The Advanced Factories fair has...
AI of Things The highlights of LUCA Innovation Day 2019. What did you miss? The third edition of LUCA Innovation Day took place on Wednesday the 16th of October, in which we presented the advances developed over the last year by the data...
AI of Things 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...
AI of Things 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...
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 Can Big Data and IOT prevent motorcycle crashes? Most of us are familiar with the dangers involved in driving motorbikes, with motorcyclists being 27 times more likely than passenger car occupants to die in a crash per...
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...
AI of Things 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...
AI of Things 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...
AI of Things Big Data Spain 2016: Your chance to join the LUCA team? This week on the 17th and 18th of November, Big Data Spain 2016 will be taking place bringing together over 1000 Big Data experts from all over the world...
Florence Broderick The Data Transparency Lab Conference 2016 kicks off tomorrow By Ramon Sangüesa, Data Transparency Lab coordinator. p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 13.3px Tahoma; -webkit-text-stroke: #000000} span.s1 {font-kerning: none} This week the 2016 edition of the Data Transparency Lab conference...
AI of Things Chatbots? New? You haven’t met ELIZA By Dr Richard Benjamins, VP for External Positioning and Big Data for Social Good at LUCA. Artificial Intelligence is a hot topic at the moment. We definitely live in the...
Marta Mª Padilla Foubelo Dark Markets in the internet age What are Dark Markets or Black Markets? This concept has been in the news for a long time as a consequence of clandestine sales. The markets for drugs and...
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...
Alexandre Maravilla Web3 and the evolution of Internet Identity The recent rise of Web3; the new evolution of the Internet to make it decentralised through Blockchain, is also bringing a lot of talk about decentralised identity schemes and...
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...
