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Data activism: an increasingly relevant practice in the age of platforms
Data activism is an increasingly significant citizen practice in the platform era for its growing contribution to democracy, social justice and rights. It is an activism that uses data and data analysis to generate evidence and visualisations with the aim of revealing injustices, improving peop…
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…
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…
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…
Open data as a tool to reduce inequalities
The public sector is not only a great provider of open data, but also one of its main users. Open data facilitates contact and direct communication between governments and citizens. This can drive more efficient and effective public policies.
Among other areas, open data has great potential to devel…
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…