Better Life Index (BLI), the measure of well-being proposed by the OECD, contains many metrics, which enable it to include a detailed overview of the social, economic, and environmental performances of different countries. However, this also increases the difficulty in evaluating the big picture. In order to overcome this, many composite BLI procedures have been proposed, but none of them takes into account societal priorities in the aggregation.
SoBigData organised the course for italian journalists: "Data journalism and Big Data: the revolution of journalistic information in the age of the Internet and social networks".
On July the 7th some SoBigData reaserchers and collaborators (Giulio Rossetti, Daniele Fadda, Michela Natilli, Laura Pollacci, Andrea Marchetti, Viola Bachini) went to Grosseto (Italy) and talked about the theoretical knowledge and practical skills in data-driven journalism.
The course was co-organized and accredited by the Italian National Council of Journalists.
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Inspired by the 72h Hours of Science event, the workshop Complexity72h - organized and hosted by the IMT School for Advanced Studies Lucca - was an interdisciplinary event whose aim was to bring together young researchers from different fields of complex systems. Participants - from different stages of their career, i.e. Master students, PhD students and postdocs, and disciplines as different as physics, mathematics, economics and engineering - formed working groups aimed at carrying out a project in a three-day time, i.e. 72 hours.
11th GATE Training Course: Large Scale Text and Social Media Analytics with GATE
By Genevieve Gorrell
Form 4 to 9 June 2018, ETH Zurich was held a CryptoDatathon.
The theme of this one-week event was to sense web social signals for cryptocurrencies by using big data processing, machine learning and natural language processing techniques.
It is often argued that there is a paucity of data on migration. While this is broadly true, there is in fact an abundance of data being produced which could inform migration policy but which has yet to be fully utilized.
Vast amounts of data are generated through the use of mobile phones, internet-based platforms and other digital devices in real time, at very little cost. These “digital crumbs” can offer important insights into societal phenomena, including migration, as shown by an increasing number of studies and initiatives.
On 14 and 15 June was held in Rome the conference Workers and firms in the platform economy Open issues, empirical evidence and policy challenges.
Roberto Trasarti, a researcher form SoBigData, partecipated to the conference in the Panel one: The advent of digital platforms: sociological, economic and ethical issues
A blog article has been published on Sage Ocean Publications about the research on Digital DNA done by Stefano Cresci. The work won the prestigious Sage concept grant.