6 interviews found
Podcast: Data and open knowledge in Spanish institutions
Science and technology
Open knowledge is knowledge that can be reused, shared and improved by other users and researchers without noticeable restrictions. This includes data, academic publications, software and other available resources. To explore this topic in more depth, we have representatives from two institutions whose aim is to promote scientific production and make it available in open access for reuse:
Mireia…
Podcast: How to learn data science in a self-taught way
Science and technology
Education
Did you know that data science skills are among the most in-demand skills in business? In this podcast, we are going to tell you how you can train yourself in this field, in a self-taught way. For this purpose, we will have two experts in data science:
Juan Benavente, industrial and computer engineer with more than 12 years of experience in technological innovation and digital transformation. In…
Interview with Adolfo Lozano, Director of the Office of Transparency and Open Data of the University of Extremadura
Education
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 interconnected with each other, regardless of the digital repository where they are located, which facilitates their contextualization and exploitation…
Interview with Gonzalo Romero, Director of Google for Education in Spain
Science and technology
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 addition, it is a reuser of open data in solutions such as Google Earth.
Among its areas of work is Google for Education, with solutions designed…
Interview with Belén Gancedo, Director of Education at Microsoft Ibérica
Science and technology
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 models. He also collaborates in the development of multiple projects in order to promote open data. In Spain, it has collaborated in the dev…
Interview with Ainara Zubillaga, COTEC Foundation
Education
Public sector
During 2020 the education sector has been exposed to great changes due to the global pandemic. Homes were transformed into classrooms, which was a challenge for everyone involved in the educational ecosystem.
The COTEC Foundation, a private non-profit organization charged with promoting innovation for economic and social development, closely followed this situation. Already in April, they publish…
