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Wellcome Grants €2.4m to RCSI to Advance Research on Deprescribing Medicines Using Big Data

By Ryan Harmon 24 August 2023

Dr Frank Moriarty, Senior Lecturer at RCSI School of Pharmacy and Biomolecular Sciences, has received a €2.4 million career development award from Wellcome to advance new methods to research deprescribing – the planned process of reducing or stopping medicines that may no longer be of benefit or may be causing harm. Improvements in healthcare mean […]

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How Big Data Impacts Smart Cities?

By Jack Mullen 14 May 2021

Big data solutions provide administrative controls for large amounts of data, including storage, backups, analysis, and visualisation. Big data systems introduce efficiency into a complex data infrastructure. In addition, big data solutions enable the use of advanced capabilities in smart cities. This includes Internet of Things (IoT) technology, smart sensors, smart

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City Lights: Michael Guerin, Programme Manager, Smart Docklands

By Jack Mullen 6 April 2021

Pictured above: Michael Guerin. Image courtesy of smartdocklands.ie The head of Dublin’s Smart Docklands project discusses air-quality solutions and how technology is keeping Dublin’s river safe. What is Smart Docklands? Smart Docklands is Dublin’s Smart City Testbed. It was established in 2017 as a partnership between Dublin City Council and the CONNECT Research Centre at

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How To Secure Your Office 365 Data in the Cloud

By Jack Mullen 30 March 2021

Image courtesy of https://accessorange.com/office365/ The views expressed here are not necessarily those of Council.ie but rather are those of www.evros.ie Evros Backup Solutions Architect and Veeam Vanguard, Stephen Seagrave, highlights the issues with businesses storing their Office 365 data in the cloud. “With 2020 marking an accelerated migration to cloud, the reliance

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Dublin’s smart bins find new purpose during the pandemic

By Jack Mullen 5 February 2021

Image courtesy of @DublinChamber Dublin’s solar-powered Bigbelly bins were already smart, sending alerts when they are almost full to streamline collections. Now, they’re also being used to measure busyness in the city and to house small cell infrastructure to improve connectivity across Dublin. This is the latest example of cities repurposing existing smart infrastructure

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Transportation is in the Midst of a Deep Transformation

By admin 19 January 2018

StreetLight Data CEO Laura Schewel discusses the role of Big Data in transport planning. What have the challenges been in your career? “When I started StreetLight Data, I had to find enough money to really get going. This meant finding investors. I had to go pitch our company to investors, and I pitched literally hundreds […]