We have analysed the themes of the last edition to draw a comparison between the offline treated topics and the online arose Twitter discussion.
Artificial intelligence and Machine learning: what’s the difference?
The terms Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning are often used as synonyms, but there is a big difference that depends on the way machines are taught.
BlueAlpaca: a smart chatbot for a smart city
An innovative chatbot project in collaboration with the SynchroniCity EU project and the cities of Milan, Santander, Antwerp and Helsinki. The objective: making information and services accessible and usable by citizens.
What a chatbot really is
It’s been roughly two years now since we started working on our first chatbot in U-Hopper. It was called Talk2Fiesta and was developed as part of the FiestaIoT EU project: it was meant to offer an alternative way of accessing environmental information (among the others temperature, humidity and wind) regarding the city of Santander, Spain. […]
AI and energy efficiency
Few days ago I was in Brussels, invited by to speak at a high-level roundtable organized by JRC on Intensive Data Processing and Energy Efficiency – Innovative Green Technologies for Artificial Intelligence. The round table included a number of industry representatives working at the junction of ICT and energy, as well as policy-makers and high-profile scientists. The discussion […]
Monitoring the Trento Sport Festival 2018
The first edition of the Sport Festival has taken place in Trento, Italy, during 11 – 14 October 2018. Being sport addicts, at U-Hopper we could not miss the chance to monitor the Twitter coverage of the event with Tapoi. We have also been using a new interesting analysis for the first time: the people […]
Chatbots for (and with) citizens – Three lessons learnt
Here at U-Hopper, we have gone quite crazy about chatbots lately. For those of you who do not share the hype, chatbots are software programs that, by leveraging artificial intelligence tools and techniques, are able to chat with humans, typically by answering simple questions. At the moment, there is a large variety of chatbots out […]
Social profiling is dead (thanks to GDPR): long life to social profiling!
Over the past few weeks, we all got our inbox clogged with emails about changes in privacy policy, requests to reconnect and confirm our personal data with cheesy “Your privacy is important to us” (really??) subject lines etc. This was all due to the entry into force (on May 25th, 2018) of the new EU […]
Monitoring the Trento Economics Festival 2018
This year the 13th edition of the Trento Economics Festival took place and we at U-Hopper were ready to monitor the Twitter coverage of the event with Tapoi.The main theme of this year’s edition has been Business and Technology and our analysis’ objective has been to verify (and actually confirm) that the social discussion was actually […]
Monitoring Trento Smart City Week 2018
Monitor the official Twitter account of Trento Smart City Week 2018 @trentosmart : this is what we have done during the four days of the event. Our objective has been collecting and presenting relevant information regarding the social coverage of the event.