AI of Things LUCA to power data-driven decisions in Brazil’s tourism sector Brazil’s tourism industry had a huge boost in 2016 with more than half a million tourists descending upon Rio de Janeiro for the Olympics – making it a record year with...
AI of Things WiDS Madrid 2017 Roundup On Friday, we joined our colleagues from Synergic Partners to celebrate Stanford University’s Women in Data Science (WiDS) event for the first time ever in Madrid. This international event,...
AI of Things LUCA partners with Pelephone to bring Big Data services to Israel This week we are thrilled to announce our latest partnership with Pelephone, powering the Israeli telco’s latest product: Smart Data. Set to invest five million shekels in the next...
Ana Zamora LUCA Talk 1: Using Big Data to understand mobility and pollution Last Monday we hosted our very first LUCA webinar with great success, with more than 140 people connecting to our live stream. Technology, and more specifically Big Data, is enabling...
Beatriz Sanz Baños What’s the role of satellite connectivity in an IoT world? The European Space Agency (ESA) recently launched the Hispasat 36W-1 into space. This satellite begins the update of a platform that aims to renew the services offered by many...
Ana Zamora Chema Alonso stars in “Big Data, Living with Algorithms” Yesterday evening, RTVE launched the first in a series of documentaries entitled “Documentos TV”, showing just how digital our daily lives have become and how the control of these...
AI of Things 5 Big Data and AI Startups to watch out for in 2017 Big Data may have fallen off the Gartner Emerging Technology Hype Cycle in 2016, but Big Data and Artificial Intelligence startups are however still in the spotlight. An increasing...
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...
Ana Zamora 5 LUCA events for your diary It’s been a busy month here in LUCA HQ, with lots of things going on such as the presentation of our analytics dashboard to the Movistar cycling Team and...
AI of Things Movistar Team: the best cyclists, the best behind the scenes team, the best strategy and Big Data By Mikel Zabala, PhD (Sport Scientist, Lecturer at Granada University and member of the team of trainers for the Movistar Team), Javier Carro (Data Scientest en LUCA), y Pedro...
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...
Paloma Recuero de los Santos Artificial Intelligence or Cognitive Intelligence? The buzz words of business (Original post in Spanish: ¿Inteligencia artificial o cognitiva?) Artificial Intelligence in the last 5 years has become the biggest buzz word with various spin offs including “Cognitive Intelligence”, “Smart Technologies”...
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...