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...
AI of Things 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...
AI of Things 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...
AI of Things 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...
AI of Things Could Big Data solve the music industry’s problems? Musicians relations with their publishers and labels have always been tumultuous and it has been alleged with the amount of middle men in the industry that it can take...
AI of Things 4 companies using Big Data to address Water Scarcity Water scarcity is an increasingly serious issue. It is estimated that by 2025, 1.8 billion people will face “absolute water scarcity”. The United Nations recognized the seriousness of this...
Ana Zamora Hackathons are not just for developers By Glyn Povah, Head of Global Product Development at LUCA. Hackathon is derived from the English words “hack” and “marathon”, and if you Google the word “hackathon” you’ll get something...
AI of Things 4 Data Enthusiasts changing the world as we know it It is becoming increasingly apparent that NGOs and governments are creating more roles in the Data Science discipline. Using Big Data for social good is all about coming up with new...
AI of Things When Big Data meets art In this world of ours, it is normal to feel overwhelmed by the amount of information, facts and data we encounter everyday – and the quantity we are generating...
AI of Things How we’re mapping Climate Change with Big Data At the 2014 U.N. Climate Change Summit in New York City, U.S. President Barak Obama shared his thoughts on the seriousness of climate change. While acknowledging other pressing issues...
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...