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Data science is all the rage. Professions related to this field are among the most in-demand, according to the latest study ‘Posiciones y competencias más Demandadas 2024’, carried out by the Spanish Association of Human Resources Managers. In particular, there is a significant demand for roles related to data management and analysis, such as Data Analyst, Data Engineer and Data Scientist. The rise of artificial intelligence (AI) and the need to make data-driven decisions are driving the integration of...

EXTENDED: You can submit your project until September 20th!   The deadline to participate in the II edition of the Datathon UniversiData is now open. This competition recognises the value of projects that reuse open university data published on the portal UniversiDATA,a public-private initiative that was born at the end of 2020. Its aim was, and is, to promote open data in the Spanish higher education sector in a harmonised way. UniversiDATA is currently made up of the Universidad...

Las Jornadas de Geodatos que organiza el Área de Gobierno de Desarrollo Urbano del Ayuntamiento de Madrid, dirigidas por la Subdirección General de Innovación e Información Urbana, se han consolidado como punto de encuentro de profesionales de los datos georreferenciados, la información urbanística, la cartografía y la innovación.  ¿Dónde y cuándo se celebra? Este año, el evento gratuito se inaugurará el miércoles 22 de marzo a las 9.30h en el Auditorio de La Nave en Madrid (metro Villaverde...

Once again, Barcelona City Council is organising the Barcelona Dades Obertes Challenge, now in its fourth year. The aim of this competition is to bring the benefits of open data closer and to promote its use in the city's educational centres. What does the challenge consist of? This year there are new changes! Like last year's edition, this is a competition for the city's students to develop real projects of analysis and/or interpretation, based on the use of datasets included in the Open Data BCN...

One more year, the Aporta Initiative launches the Aporta Challenge, a competition aimed at promoting the creation of solutions based on public sector information, which help solve challenges in specific sectors that affect society as a whole. This time, the chosen sector is education. A teaching model based on data and disruptive technologies The current context of a global pandemic has marked a before and after in the education sector. Although there has been talk for years about the benefits of...

We live in an era in which training has become an essential element, both to enter and to progress in an increasingly competitive labour market, as well as to be part of research projects that can lead to great improvements in our lifetime. Summer is coming and with it, a renewed training offer that does not rest at all in the summer season, but quite the opposite. Every year, the number of courses related to data science, analytics or open data increases. The current labour market demands and requires...

De aquí a 2025, la UE y los Estados miembros deberían haber reducido a la mitad la actual brecha de 1 millón de especialistas digitales, prestando especial atención a una mayor participación de mujeres. Así se indica en la Estrategia Europea de Datos recientemente publicada por la Comisión Europea, donde se establece el avance de las competencias y la inversión en competencias digitales como uno de los pilares clave del futuro de la EU. Esta mejora en las habilidades digitales está intrínsecamente...

The Barcelona’s city council organizes, for the second consecutive year, the Barcelona Dades Obertes Challenge, a contest aimed at promoting the knowledge and use of open data in the schools of Barcelona city. This year's edition is organized, like the previous year, with the collaboration of Consorci d'Educació de Barcelona and Centro de Recursos Pedagógicos Específicos de Soporte a la Innovación y la Recerca Educativa (CESIRE); and Barcelona Activa S.A. were added. The contest is aimed at students who...