Industrial Area
Big Data & Data Science
Innovative data analytics solutions
The Big Data & Data Science Department at Eurecat designs, builds and validates innovative data analytics solutions to optimise business processes and improve decision-making by creating and adapting new technologies and algorithms.
Services

Data mining and machine learning
- Recommendation systems
- Data mining
- User behaviour mining
- Graphics mining

New Data Economy
- Big data analytics platforms
- Personal data management systems

Privacy & Algorithmic Fairness
- Online conversation analysis
- Information dissemination and influence on social media
- Fake news detection
- Participation and digital democracy platforms
- Human mobility and geoanalysis

Perception & Cognition
- Behavioural and psychophysiological measures
- Multi-modal portable sensors for field studies with users

Big Data Infraestructures
- Stream processing
- In-house cloud infrastructure
- Spatio temporal data management
- NOSQL data management

Social Media & computational Social Science
- Detection of targeted advertising and price discrimination online
- Auditing of algorithms and discrimination
- Anonymisation platforms
Representative sectors
Contact

Cirus Iniesta
Director of the Big Data & Data Science Unit at Eurecat
Computer Engineer (UPF), MSc Economics with reference to Africa (SOAS, University of London) and postgraduate studies in Big Data and Analytics (UPC). From 2012 to 2015 he worked at the think tank Mo Ibrahim Foundation (London/Senegal), specializing in the generation of composite indices for the study of basic service provision in African macroeconomies. From 2015 to 2019 he worked as a data scientist in the mobile video game industry, where he became familiar in distributed computing environments. Since 2019 he works to Eurecat, first as a researcher and senior data scientist and currently as Director of the Big Data & Data Science (BD&DS) unit, integrated in the Digital Area. He has worked in areas of time series modeling and prediction as well as techniques related to natural language processing, both in understanding and generation.
Outstanding projects

New model for the treatment of online data in which citizens can decide what happens with their digital identity and with whom they share it.

Platform to help micro, small and medium-sized companies (MSMEs) to validate their level of compliance with the European General Data Protection Regulation.

Research on VTT (value of travel time) by introducing and validating a conceptual framework for the estimation of VTT through a European-wide data collection.
News
New cybersecurity toolbox designed to protect automated and connected mobility systems
The European SELFY project is to develop a self-assessment and self-protection toolbox to enhance the security and resilience of [...]
Project to combat misinformation and disinformation through innovative data use
The Eurecat technology centre is taking part in the MediaFutures project, a European hub which has just announced a call [...]
Artificial intelligence envisages new scenarios in clinical diagnostic support, traffic accident risk prediction and changing tourism patterns
The Centre of Innovation for Data tech and Artificial Intelligence (CIDAI) has unveiled in Barcelona the results of three [...]
European consortium identifies shortcomings to remedy gender inequalities in transport
A European consortium coordinated by the Eurecat technology centre has developed tools, protocols and guides to support inclusion and gender [...]
Artificial intelligence can identify students who need extra help
A pilot study of the use of artificial intelligence to detect the needs of students in remote learning has concluded that the [...]
New system tapping artificial intelligence and big data for better cold cut curing is presented at Mobile World Congress
Food group Splendid Foods, whose core business is making cured cold cuts, has partnered the Eurecat technology centre on a project [...]












