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Data policies that foster innovation
The importance of data in today's society and economy is no longer in doubt. Data is now present in virtually every aspect of our lives. This is why more and more countries have been incorporating specific data-related regulations into their policies: whether they relate to personal, busin…
Invisibilisation and algorithmic discrimination
Digital technology and algorithms have revolutionised the way we live, work and communicate. While promising efficiency, accuracy and convenience, these technologies can exacerbate prejudice and social inequalities exacerbate prejudice and social inequalities and create new forms of exclusion and cr…
Segment Anything Model: Key Insights from Meta's Segmentation Model Applied to Spatial Data
Image segmentation is a method that divides a digital image into subgroups (segments) to reduce its complexity, thus facilitating its processing or analysis. The purpose of segmentation is to assign labels to pixels to identify objects, people, or other elements in the image.
Image segmentation is c…
Open data as a tool for education and training
The demand for professionals with skills related to data analytics continues to grow and it is already estimated that just the industry in Spain would need more than 90,000 data and artificial intelligence professionals to boost the economy. Training professionals who can fill this gap is a major ch…
This is MarIA, the first artificial intelligence in the Spanish language
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 Secretary of State for Digitalisation and Art…
Open data in transport and urban mobility research projects
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 portal datos.gob.es, which has around 2,000 dat…
10 Popular natural language processing libraries
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.
To be able to carry out this task in the current…
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…
11 libraries for creating data visualisations
Programming libraries are sets of code files that are used to develop software. Their purpose is to facilitate programming by providing common functionalities that have already been solved by other programmers.
Libraries are an essential component for developers to be able to program in a simple way…
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…
