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...
Beatriz Sanz Baños Industry 4.0 is much more than Smart Factories We should start by explaining what Industrial IoT (IIoT) – also known as Industry 4.0 – is. It is undoubtedly as much a revolution as the three previous revolutions...
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...
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 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...
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...
Richard Benjamins Big Data and Elections: We shine a light on Trump and Clinton Twitter is widely used as a tool to understand and predict phenomena in the real world. Today on our blog, we have been using Twitter to understand the US Presidential...
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...
