On April 24 2018 SoBigData participated to the Web Conference that took place in Lyon, France, with a talk on the SoBigData project.

The former football coach of Italian teams applies math to sport. The project with Luca Pappalardo and Paolo Cintia from the University of Pisa and CRN-ISTI: "It is clear then that the game remains unpredictable, it is its beauty. But it is our duty as professionals to study and apply new methods to reduce randomness to a minimum ».

A SAGE Ocean Concept Grant won by SoBigData! The SoBigData member Stefano Cresci (IIT-CNR) won this very prestigious award with a proposal based on digital DNA.

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: