Did you know that robots aren’t just made for scrubbing the floors and other types of dirty work? They can be used to do lots of other exciting things, like theatre. To break the cult of robots scrubbing floors and mowing lawns, MEDITA researcher Liina Keevallik took it upon herself to do something particularly cultural and beautiful with robots – robot theatre.

Have you ever heard a bird sing while walking in the park or in the woods and wondered which bird sings so beautifully? STACC and Lapponica have developed a powerful bird song recognition application that allows you to record a bird song and identify which bird the song belongs to. Lapponica is a company created

The Junction journey of our team – Maksym, Raul, Christian, Carlos and me, Eerik – began actually on the 12th of September in Spark Hub, Tartu at an event called Tech Race Tartu. Tech Race Europe is a hackathon event touring through cities around Europe and as it`s meant for everyone regardless of their skillset

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