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Data citation, a practice that favours the re-use of data
We are living in a historic moment in which data is a key asset, on which many small and large decisions of companies, public bodies, social entities and citizens depend every day. It is therefore important to know where each piece of information comes from, to ensure that the issues that affect our…
Towards an Open Government: A Guide to Transforming Public Administrations
The Open Government Guide for Public Employees is a manual to guide the staff of public administrations at all levels (local, regional and state) on the concept and conditions necessary to achieve an "inclusive open government in a digital environment". Specifically, the document seeks for the admin…
Discover IATE: the European Union's inter-institutional terminology bas
IATE, which stands for Interactive Terminology for Europe, is a dynamic database designed to support the multilingual drafting of European Union texts. It aims to provide relevant, reliable and easily accessible data with a distinctive added value compared to other sources of lexical informatio…
Initiatives for training machine learning models with open data
Behind a voice-enabled virtual assistant, a movie recommendation on a streaming platform, or the development of some COVID-19 vaccines, there are machine learning models. This branch of artificial intelligence enables systems to learn and improve their performance.
Machine learning (ML) is one of th…
10 Popular Data Analytics and Machine Learning Libraries
Programming libraries refer to the sets of code files that have been created to develop software in a simple way . Thanks to them, developers can avoid code duplication and minimize errors with greater agility and lower cost. There are many bookstores, focused on different activities. A few weeks ag…
Citizen science and open data to help society
Some time ago we talked about the power of citizen science to generate open data. As we explained then, citizen science initiatives seek to encourage citizens to contribute to various scientific activities and research through their efforts, knowledge, tools and resources.
The participatory n…
Open data: the great allies to eradicate inequality
Is it possible to find in the data the necessary help to solve the real problems that our society faces? While it is true that data alone cannot be transformed into food for the most disadvantaged, nor can it make weapons disappear in conflict zones or inequalities in the world, they are very useful…
The re-use of public sector information and industry 4.0
The promotion of digitalisation in industrial activity is one of the main axes for tackling the transformation that the Spain's Digital Agenda 2025 aims to promote. In this respect, several initiatives have already been launched by public institutions, including the Connected Industry 4.0 programme…
How open data can help in the refugee crisis
According to the United Nations Agency for Refugees (UNHCR), we are currently witnessing the highest levels of displacement of people registered in recent history. In 2019, it is estimated that more than 70 million people have been forced to leave their homes, including 25.9 million legal refugees,…
How to improve the acquisition of skills in the era of intelligent technologies
New technologies are changing the world we live in. The society changes, the economy changes, and with that, the jobs change. The implementation of technologies such as Artificial Intelligence, Big Data or Internet of Things are driving the demand for new professional profiles that we did not even c…
