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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…
High-value meteorological datasets
The cross-cutting nature of open data on weather and climate data has favoured its use in areas as diverse as precision agriculture, fire prevention or the precision forestry. But the relevance of these datasets lies not only in their direct applicability across multiple industries, but also in thei…
Complying with Europe. The Mobility High Value Datasets Regulation
Spain, as part of the European Union, is committed to the implementation of the European directives on open data and re-use of public sector information. This includes the adoption of initiatives such as the Implementing Regulation (EU) 2023/138 issued by the European Commission, whic…
Complying with Europe. The High Value Sites of Earth Observation and Environment Regulation
The European Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2023/138 sets clear guidelines for public bodies on the availability of high-value datasets within 16 months from 20 January 2023. These high-value high value datasets (High value datasets or HVD) are grouped into the following themes, which were…
The relevance of open data for medical research: The Case of FISABIO Foundation
In the digital age, technological advancements have transformed the field of medical research. One of the factors contributing to technological development in this area is data, particularly open data. The openness and availability of information obtained from health research provide multiple benefi…
Artificial Intelligence applied to the identification and classification of diseases detected by radiodiagnosis
In this post we have described step-by-step a data science exercise in which we try to train a deep learning model with a view to automatically classifying medical images of healthy and sick people.
Diagnostic imaging has been around for many years in the hospitals of develo…
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…
Health and open data
Health is one of the priority development fields in this century. Most analysts agree that health management - from all possible perspectives - will change radically in the coming years. The analysis of health data will set the way forward in the coming days.
The life expectancy of developed countri…
