IAAC’s Master in City & Technology (1 or 2-year program) is a unique program oriented towards redefining the analysis, planning, and design of twenty-first-century cities and beyond. The program offers expertise in the design of digitally enhanced, ecological and human-centered urban environments by intersecting the disciplines of urbanism and data science. Taking place in Barcelona, the capital of urbanism, the Master in City & Technology is training the professionals that city administrations, governments, industries, and communities need, to transform the urban environment in the era of big data.


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The Secrets of the Blue Zones

Introduction The Netflix documentary “Live to 100: The Secrets of the Blue Zones” explores regions known for their high numbers of centenarians, focusing on lifestyle, diet, and culture over geographical aspects. Highlighting commonalities such as strong community ties, plant-based diets, and active living, it aims to inspire healthier lifestyle choices. Although it emphasizes the principles … Read more

Music_Mental Health

Undertaken by: Avi Sharma Hypothesis : Exposure to Music correlates with variations in Mental Health among people. We all know that listening to music can evoke various emotions, depending on the song. What I am exploring is the idea that exposure to music, in general, can play a role in shaping your overall mental health … Read more

Unveiling the Great Innovation Barrier: Leaders and Followers in the EU

In the dynamic landscape of global innovation, understanding the intricacies of what drives or hinders progress is crucial. This post dives deeper into the innovation data concerning EU countries, aiming to decipher it visually for clearer insights. Leveraging the Global Innovation Index 2022, which assigns each nation an innovation score, this project set out to … Read more

Predicting Taxi Trip Duration in New York City Using Machine Learning

Machine learning has been applied to a wide range of domains, including transportation, to improve the accuracy of predictions and optimize systems. In the context of taxi services, predicting the trip duration is an essential task to optimize route planning and estimate arrival times. In this post, we present a machine learning approach using Python … Read more

Machine learning model to predict NYC cabs’ trip duration

Goal: to predict trip duration of NYC cabs using machine learning models. Tools: Python + Nympy + Pandas + Datetime + Plotly.express + Matplotlib + Math + Seaborn + Bokeh + Sklearn Stages of project: data cleaning, data analysis, data preparation, data testing, evaluating prediction accuracy. Data cleaning The first dataset visualization with splitting datasets … Read more

Data-Driven Rides

Machine Learning-based Analysis of NYC Cab Trip Duration “Data-Driven Rides” is an entry for the first MaCT Machine Learning Competition that hosted on Kaggle which involves predicting the duration of taxi rides in New York City. The dataset provided for this competition is based on the 2016 NYC Yellow Cab trip record dataset and the … Read more

Predicting NYC Cab Ride Duration using ML

The MaCT01 students were tasked with training a model that would be used to predict NYC yellow taxi ride durations using machine learning. The dataset included pickup and drop-off datetimes, location coordinates and passenger count. Visualizing the data helped to understand the correlation between the columns and remove the highly correlated values Understanding the distribution … Read more

New York City Taxi Trip Duration

INTRODUCTION The competition is based on the 2016 NYC Yellow Cab trip record dataset. The challenge is to build a model that predicts trip duration for New York City taxis using machine learning. The dataset includes pickup time, geo-coordinates, number of passengers, and several other variables. Based on individual trip attributes, a code was written … Read more

1st Traditional IAAC MaCT ML Competition

#Objective #A Kaggle Competition to MaCT01 students to show their knowledge, designing an end-to-end machine learning project to predict the “Trip Duration” of NYC Taxi trips. #Workflow #First of all a workflow hast do be developed, which represents a classic approach for training machine learning models, analysing the provided training data provided by the submission, … Read more