Interviews

The Canary Islands Statistics Institute (ISTAC) is the central body of the autonomous statistical system and the official research center of the Government of the Canary Islands. It is in charge of providing statistical information of interest related to...

Today, data drives the world. It conditions public policies, the behaviour of algorithms and the decision-making of many companies. That is why it is important to have figures that correctly represent reality, i.e. that take into account all variables,...

The AMETIC association represents companies of all sizes linked to the Spanish digital technology industry, a key sector for the national GDP. Among other issues, AMETIC seeks to promote a favorable environment for the growth of companies in the sector,...

A few months ago, Facebook surprised us all with a name change: it became Meta. This change alludes to the concept of "metaverse" that the brand wants to develop, uniting the real and virtual worlds, connecting people and communities. Among the...

Publishing open data following the best practices of linked data allows to boost its reuse. Data and metadata are described using RDF standards that allow representing relationships between entities, properties and values. In this way, datasets are...

Google is a company with a strong commitment to open data. It has launched Google Dataset Search, to locate open data in existing repositories around the world, and also offers its own datasets in open format as part of its Google Research initiative. In...

Open data is not only a matter of public administrations, more and more companies are also betting on them. This is the case of Microsoft, who has provided access to selected open data in Azure designed for the training of Machine Learning...