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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…
Satellite Data Analysis: A Window on the World from Space - Application in Fisheries Monitoring and Management
Satellite data has become a fundamental tool for understanding and monitoring our planet from a unique perspective. This data, collected by satellites in orbit around the Earth, provides a global and detailed view of various terrestrial, maritime and atmospheric phenomena that have applications in m…
Computer use: the AI that learns how to operate your computer
The evolution of generative AI has been dizzying: from the first great language models that impressed us with their ability to reproduce human reading and writing, through the advanced RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) techniques that quantitatively improved the quality of the responses provided…
Explainable artificial intelligence (XAI): how open data can help understand algorithms
The increasing adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) systems in critical areas such as public administration, financial services or healthcare has brought the need for algorithmic transparency to the forefront. The complexity of AI models used to make decisions such as granting credit or making a…
New geospatial data capture techniques: innovations for more efficient data governance
Geospatial data capture is essential for understanding our environment, making informed decisions and designing effective policies in areas such as urban planning, natural resource management or emergency response. In the past, this process was mainly manual and labour-intensive, based on ground mea…
The role of open data in the evolution of SLM and LLM: efficiency vs. power
Language models are at the epicentre of the technological paradigm shift that has been taking place in generative artificial intelligence (AI) over the last two years. From the tools with which we interact in natural language to generate text, images or videos and which we use to create creativ…
Citizen science projects that encourage public knowledge
Citizen science is consolidating itself as one of the most relevant sources of most relevant sources of reference in contemporary research contemporary research. This is recognised by the Centro Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), which defines citizen science as a methodology and a mean…
SLM, LLM, RAG and Fine-tuning: Pillars of Modern Generative AI
In the fast-paced world of Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI), there are several concepts that have become fundamental to understanding and harnessing the potential of this technology. Today we focus on four: Small Language Models(SLM), Large Language Models(LLM), Retrieval Augmented Generation…
RAG techniques: how they work and examples of use cases
In recent months we have seen how the large language models (LLMs ) that enable Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) applications have been improving in terms of accuracy and reliability. RAG (Retrieval Augmented Generation) techniques have allowed us to use the full power of n…
Open geographic data applications of the National Centre for Geographic Information (NICHD)
The National Centre for Geographic Information publishes open geospatial data from the National Cartographic System, the National Geographic Institute and other organisations through web applications and mobile applications to facilitate access to and consultation of geographic data by citizens.
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