How do we get more renewable energy into the grid without upgrading the infrastructure?

How do we get more renewable energy into the grid without upgrading the infrastructure?

The energy sector is changing fast. Daily headlines about green transition strategies, geopolitical shifts, and supply security make that clear. The transition to a carbon-neutral economy and local energy independence both depend on our ability to integrate renewables into existing power grids.  Today, grid operators manage renewable energy influx using a “static maximum” approach. Connection

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STYO: from “What’s my payback time?” to a bank-ready answer in minutes

STYO: from “What’s my payback time?” to a bank-ready answer in minutes

Every solar and battery sales engineer in the Baltics knows the moment: you’re twenty minutes into a meeting with a promising customer. A logistics company, a dairy farm, a developer planning solar on a new commercial rooftop. And they ask the question that decides everything: so, what’s the payback time? You have two options: give

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Which Enterprise Estonia grant is right for your idea?

Which Enterprise Estonia grant is right for your idea?

You want to develop an innovative product based on artificial intelligence or machine learning. But where to start? And how to finance the necessary research and product development if your own resources are not enough? This is where support from the Estonian state comes in: several grants from Enterprise Estonia (EIS) can help move your

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AI masterclass for company executives

AI masterclass for company executives

Can AI boost business profitability? STACC’s AI masterclass helps company executives explore AI’s potential, assess business challenges, and create an AI implementation roadmap. Gain expert insights on how AI can improve efficiency and drive growth!

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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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Marlon Dumas was awarded the National Research Award

Marlon Dumas was awarded the National Research Award

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.

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Garage48 Open & Big Data 2016

Garage48 Open & Big Data 2016

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

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