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Collecting and analysing data to improve humanitarian assistance and restore damage during the Ukrainian war
05-10-2022
On 24 February Europe entered a scenario that not even the data could have predicted: Russia invaded Ukraine, unleashing the first war on European soil so far in the 21st century. Almost five months later, on 26 September, the United Nations (UN)...
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Quantifying the value of data
26-09-2022
There is a recurring question that has been around since the beginning of the open data movement, and as efforts and investments in data collection and publication have increased, it has resonated more and more strongly: What is the value of a dataset...
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This is MarIA, the first artificial intelligence in the Spanish language
22-09-2022
After several months of tests and different types of training, the first massive Artificial Intelligence system in the Spanish language is capable of generating its own texts and summarising existing ones. MarIA is a project that has been promoted by the...
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Open data in transport and urban mobility research projects
20-09-2022
Open data portals are experiencing a significant growth in the number of datasets being published in the transport and mobility category. For example, the EU's open data portal already has almost 48,000 datasets in the transport category or Spain's own...
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When to use each programming language in data science?
14-09-2022
Python, R, SQL, JavaScript, C++, HTML... Nowadays we can find a multitude of programming languages that allow us to develop software programmes, applications, web pages, etc. Each one has unique characteristics that differentiate it from the rest and...
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European Legislation Identifier (ELI): an opportunity to boost interoperability and reuse of legal texts
01-09-2022
Nowadays we can find a great deal of legislative information on the web. Countries, regions and municipalities make their regulatory and legal texts public through various spaces and official bulletins. The use of this information can be of great use in...
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Improving efficiency in the legal sector: LegalTech and data analytics
25-08-2022
Digital transformation affects all sectors, from agriculture to tourism and education. Among its objectives is the optimization of processes, the improvement of the customer experience and even the promotion of new business models. The legal...
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Chatbots or virtual assistants in Public Administrations to democratize the use of open data
16-08-2022
According to the latest analysis conducted by Gartner in September 2021, on Artificial Intelligence trends, Chatbots are one of the technologies that are closest to deliver effective productivity in less than 2 years. Figure 1, extracted from this report...
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Different approaches to identifying high-value data
09-08-2022
Since the publication of Directive (EU) 2019/1024 on open data and re-use of public sector information, the European Commission is undertaking a number of actions to develop the concept of high-value data that this directive introduced as an important...
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10 Popular natural language processing libraries
02-08-2022
The advance of supercomputing and data analytics in fields as diverse as social networks or customer service is encouraging a part of artificial intelligence (AI) to focus on developing algorithms capable of processing and generating natural language...