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Applications of artificial intelligence in professional sports
Sport has always been characterized by generating a lot of data, statistics, graphs... But accumulating figures is not enough. It is necessary to analyze the data, draw conclusions and make decisions based on it. The advantages of sharing data in this sector go beyond mere sports, having a positive…
Benefits and opportunities of public initiatives for open data visualisation
Imagine you want to know how many terraces there are in your neighbourhood, how the pollen levels in the air you breathe every day are evolving or whether recycling in your city is working well. All this information exists in your municipality's databases, but it sits in spreadsheets and technical d…
The benefits of sharing sport-related data
In the digital age, data has become an invaluable tool in almost all areas of society, and the world of sport is no exception. The availability of data related to this field can have a positive impact on the promotion of health and wellbeing, as well as on the improvement of physical performance of…
Big Data Test Infrastructure: A free environment for public administrations to experiment with open data
The Big Data Test Infrastructure (BDTI) is a tool funded by the European Digital Agenda, which enables public administrations to perform analysis with open data and open source tools in order to drive innovation.
This free-to-use, cloud-based tool was created in 2019 to accelerate d…
What is a data dictionary and why is it important?
Data has occupied a fundamental place in our society in recent years. New technologies have enabled a data-driven globalization in which everything that happens in the world is interconnected. Using simple techniques, it is possible to extract value from them that was unimaginable just a few years a…
Re-use of open data in public administrations
Open data is a source of information for the development of smart services, as well as for decision-making and policy-making. It is therefore not surprising that an increasing number of public bodies, in addition to opening data - for reuse by others and for reasons of accountability and transparenc…
Data vocabularies: why are they important?
Each individual, organization or group uses a number of common words in their daily communication, which would be their personal vocabularies. The greater the number of words we use, the greater our ability to communicate, but it can also be a barrier, increasing the difficulty of understanding othe…
Linked Open Vocabularies (LOV)
One of the main barriers to the deployment of linked data is the difficulty that data editors have to determine which vocabularies to use to describe their semantics. These vocabularies provide the "semantic glue" that allows simple data to become "meaningful data".
Linked Open Vocabularies (LOV)…
