From an English Teacher to a Data Science Project Manager!

From an English Teacher to a Data Science Project Manager!

From teaching English to leading data science projects – an unexpected career shift that became the perfect fit. STACC’s welcoming team and hands-on approach made the transition seamless, proving that new challenges lead to great opportunities.

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How STACC used AI to help the National Heritage Board estimate the stability of museum objects

How STACC used AI to help the National Heritage Board estimate the stability of museum objects

How can AI support museum conservation? STACC collaborated with the National Heritage Board to develop a predictive model that assesses artifact stability, enabling museums to streamline inventory processes and focus on preserving the most at-risk objects.

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AI creates plays: How did STACC make robots to write, and act plays inspired by Chekhov?

AI creates plays: How did STACC make robots to write, and act plays inspired by Chekhov?

How did AI step onto the stage? STACC’s data scientists developed an artificial intelligence capable of generating Chekhov-inspired plays, structuring plots, assigning characters, and even adding stage directions.

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Do you want to know which bird is singing outdoors? Lapponica – bird song identification app will help you!

Do you want to know which bird is singing outdoors? Lapponica – bird song identification app will help you!

Want to identify birds by their songs? Lapponica, developed with STACC, uses AI to recognize the calls of 220 bird species. With future expansions, it aims to become the world’s best bird song recognition app.
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A weekend full of hacking @Junction 2019

A weekend full of hacking @Junction 2019

STACC’s team hacked their way through Junction 2019, developing an AI-powered smart lighting system using radar and gesture control. After two days of intense coding and minimal sleep, they successfully demoed their prototype – an experience full of challenges and fun!

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STACC’s developers at RecSys Challenge 2018 by Spotify

STACC’s developers at RecSys Challenge 2018 by Spotify

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

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Meet X-Road: Estonian official software platform for data exchange between public and private sector institutions

Meet X-Road: Estonian official software platform for data exchange between public and private sector institutions

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

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Extract a feature vector for any image with PyTorch

Extract a feature vector for any image with PyTorch

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

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STACC is now a positively evaluated research and development institution

STACC is now a positively evaluated research and development institution

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

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