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Benefits and opportunities of public initiatives for open data visualisation
Imagine you want to know how many terraces there are in your neighbourhood, how the pollen levels in the air you breathe every day are evolving or whether recycling in your city is working well. All this information exists in your municipality's databases, but it sits in spreadsheets and technical d…
Data on the banking sector: sources of access
Access to financial and banking data is revolutionising the sector, promoting transparency, financial inclusion and innovation in economic services. However, the management of this data faces regulatory challenges in balancing openness with security and privacy.
For this reason, there are different…
DGT datasets to help improve traffic and road safety
The General direction of traffic (DGT in its Spanish acronym) is the body responsible for ensuring safety and fluidity on the roads in Spain. Among other activities, it is responsible for the issuing of permits, traffic control and the management of infringements.
As a result of its activity, a larg…
Open data in local authorities: priorities and highlighted datasets
Local public bodies, such as county councils and municipalities, play a crucial role in opening their data to the public. Making data available to citizens not only builds trust in institutions, but also drives innovation, facilitates citizen participation and promotes informed decision-making. Thro…
Big Data Test Infrastructure: A free environment for public administrations to experiment with open data
The Big Data Test Infrastructure (BDTI) is a tool funded by the European Digital Agenda, which enables public administrations to perform analysis with open data and open source tools in order to drive innovation.
This free-to-use, cloud-based tool was created in 2019 to accelerate d…
Open science and information systems for research
The European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) is a European Union initiative that aims to promote open science through the creation of an open, collaborative and sustainabledigital research infrastructure. EOSC's main objective is to provide European researchers with easier access to the data, tools and re…
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…
European Webinars: Monitoring Climate Change and Digital Development with Open Data
The "Stories of Use Cases" series, organized by the European Open Data portal (data.europe.eu), is a collection of online events focused on the use of open data to contribute to common European Union objectives such as consolidating democracy, boosting the economy, combating climate change, and driv…
Education through MooCs
During the second quarter of 2020, humanity was forced to improvise a large-scale experiment in distance education due to the need to close schools at all levels to help contain the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic. Like many other sectors and activities, whose face-to-face formula has been abruptly…
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…
