A Blog about Machine Learning, Data Privacy and what it takes to make sense of the digital words in the rise of the digital millennium.
This last Tuesday, I lead the ‘Discover Big Data’ workshop at the First European Celebration of Women in Computing. There were many parallel sessions that morning and I received some questions about my presentation from the participants that couldn’t divide themselves to attend this workshop 😉 Welcome to the Big Data workshop, we need women Read More …
Mid-February, Francesca Bria from Nesta presented the final study report on Digital Social Innovation (#DigitalSI) As NESTA puts it: This report coordinated by Nesta and commissioned by the European Commission, DG CONNECT is the first systematic network analysis of the emerging digital social innovation (DSI) ecosystem in Europe The study began 18 months ago with Read More …
The European Parliament is asking to “unbundling search engines from other commercial services”, issuing a message as in the ‘Free Willy’ movie, or any other cause you may be for 🙂 The Economist has done its first page article around it: ‘Should governments break up digital monopolies?’, Nov. 29th. 2014. Is this issue so important? Read More …
Open Education Europa, the EU portal on open education resources just published the scoreboard of the European MOOCs. Check here for the full information on all the listed MOOCs, Learn and enjoy!
Last week I presented this topic to professional women at PWI here in Brussels. It’s called ‘small talk’ because it is not a technical presentation but one for a broader audience, to create awareness on this Big Data trend. The main concept I wanted them to take away is the change in the business arena Read More …
I was at the conference Powered by Inspire here in Brussels. It was all about geo-spatial European Standardization. Erika Nissi, from the International Union of Railways, spoke about their particular situation regarding this European Directive. They want to move on that direction, and they will comply eventually, but railways have a lot of other Directives and Read More …