An article published on March 23 tells how finance is influenced by fake tweets.
The results come from a research done by Fabrizio Lillo, Maurizio Tesconi and Stefano Cresci, members of the SoBigData project.
Fosca Giannotti in the Italian delegation at #G7 Academies' Summit Ottawa 19 - 20 March 2018 Realizing our #DigitalFuture: inclusive, democratic, ethical, open to all citizens.
With international partners, including the Government of Canada, the RSC prepared a series of G7 Research Summits throughout 2018 that will culminate in Halifax in November 2018 during the annual gathering.
After the success of the first edition, also this year the SoBigData lab has launched the Tuscan Big Data Challenge. The call was opened from November 1st to December 31st and a roadshow around Tuscany were organized in order to present the Challenge. Also this year the requests for participation were many, all very interesting. This is the reason that led SoBigData researchers to accept 5 proposals, two more than what was established in the call.
Paolo Ferragina, Professor at University of Pisa talked about the themes of digitization and industry 4.0 in Florence on December the 5th.
With the professors Antonio Bicchi, he discussed on the relationship between people and machines, on the topics of automation and artificial intelligence and on the robot's perception of the world. The two-voice confrontation was moderated by the journalist Cesare Peruzzi, Director of Toscana 24 - Il Sole24Ore, and introduced by Albino Caporale, the Director of Activities production of the Tuscany Region.
On November 30, 2017 in Ispra (Italy) the European Commission’s Knowledge Centre on Migration and Demography (KCMD) and the IOM's Global Migration Data Analysis Centre (GMDAC) organised the workshop on Big Data and alternative data sources on migration: from case studies to policy support.
Researchers, data holders/providers, policymakers and practitioners gathered to:
A successful datathon was held in Tartu (Estonia) the second weekend of November 2017.
The topic of the datathon was the analysis of the impact of public investment subsidies on enterprise performance and their network structure in Estonia during 2011–2016.
There have been 220 participants, 12 teams and 18 mentors from all around Europe!
SoBigData participated in the Lucca Nerd festival with a talk by Roberto Trasarti titled Big Data and Human Mobility. Roberto talked about how Big Data and social mining can be a tool that enables innovative services for end users or public administrations to improve the lives of citizens: Carpooling, Elettrificability, Demography (City of Citizens context), indicators of well-being (Wellbeing context) and collection of opinions and needs (Societal-debate context).
On October 11 2017 at the Data Clinic - European University Institute, a study day has been hold in the SoBigData research project. Current topics have been tackled on the one hand social aspects linked to the definition of health and quality education indexes, on the other hand, the study of social and political debates on social networks. It is clear how these two themes are linked and mutually affected. The goal of the day was to give a careful look at new studies related to the issues related to the use of big data by fostering an exchange of ideas and promoting a creative boost.
On November the 10th, at 3 pm, Professors Paolo Ferragina and Fabrizio Luccio will present the book "The Computational Thinking: from algorithms to coding" at the Pisa Book Festival.