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Open data on femicide: a fundamental step in the fight against violence against women
Femicide, defined as the gender-based murder of women, remains one of the most extreme forms of violence. In 2023, it is estimated that approximately 85,000 women and girls were murdered in the world and of these, 60% died at the hands of intimate partners or family members, which is equivalent to 1…
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…
The gender gap: inequality is also in the data
Today, 8 March is the day on which we commemorate women's struggle to achieve their full participation in society, as well as giving visibility to the current gender inequality and demanding global action for effective equality of rights in all areas.
However, the data seem to indicate that we still…
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 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…
Accessible training on new technologies: MOOCs and online training platforms
The adoption of innovative technologies could bring great competitive advantages for companies, optimizing processes, improving the customer experience and even creating new products and services. Therefore, an increasing number of organizations demand professionals with knowledge in areas such as d…
