STACC’s developers Carlos Bentes, Maksym Semikin and Meri Liis Treimann took part in the RecSys Challenge 2018, which was organized by Spotify, The University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and Johannes Kepler University, Linz, and concluded on June 30, 2018. Spotify is an online music streaming service with over 140 million active users and over 30 million tracks. One of
X-Road is a software framework that enables direct secure data exchange over internet between state and private organizations (hereafter “members”). It is the Estonian official software platform for data exchange between public and private sector institutions and enterprises. X-Road members can act as data clients or data providers or both. Data service providers make their
By Christian Safka, Data Scientist at STACC In this tutorial we will convert images to vectors, and test the quality of our vectors with cosine similarity. The full project can be found here. What is a feature vector? What I am calling a ‘feature vector’ is simply a list of numbers taken from the output
This week, the list of positively evaluated research and development institutions was officially approved with the signature of the Minister of Education and Research, Mailis Reps. STACC is one of the institutions receiving a positive evaluation. Regular evaluation is an external evaluation, which assesses the level of the R&D institution in the field compared to
On February 9, the Government of Estonia approved this year’s laureates of the National Research Award. The award in the field of technical sciences was awarded to STACC’s head of strategic development area, Marlon Dumas for his research on “Foundations of Process Mining”. Dumas’ research is focused on using event logs for optimizing business processes.
Garage48 (https://www.garage48.org/) is an international series of weekend hackathons that aims to promote entrepreneurship and startup culture. Garage48 Open & Big Data 2016 (https://www.garage48.org/events/openbigdata) took place in Tartu with STACC scientists Irene Teinemaa and Anna Leontjeva mentoring teams on data science and our CEO Kristjan Eljand advising on the business side. STACC wishes to congratulate
STACC’s head of research area Marlon Dumas and researcher Irene Teinemaa won the best paper award for “Semantics and Analysis of DMN Decision Tables” at BPM2016 conference in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Dumas’ presentation at the conference can be watched here and the paper itself can be read here.
Our project manager, researcher Elis Kõivumägi attended a conference Mobile Tartu 2016 from 29.06 to 1.07.2016 where he gave a presentation on “Semantically enriching mobile subscribers’ trajectories“.
Reach-U together with Entel, Ericsson and Transport Ministry of Chile carried trough a project for transport planning in Santiago. The project done in Chile was chosen from 279 other projects to be discussed on stage at Smart City Expo World Congress in November, 17. See video. Read more.
We are happy to announce that STACC was chosen as one of the 6 centers that will get financing from the „Measure for technological development centres for the period 2014–2020“. The purpose of the project is to turn STACC into a leading R&D organisation where companies can access expertise in (big) data analytics and co-develop
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