On March 10, 2017 we hosted a seminar by Daniele Quercia in the Como Campus of Politecnico di Milano, on the topic: Good City Life Daniele Quercia leads the Social Dynamics group at Bell Labs in Cambridge (UK). He has been named one of Fortune magazine's 2014 Data All-Stars, and spoke about “happy maps” at TED. … Continue reading Data Science for Good City Life
When people talk about smart cities, the tendency is to think about them in a technology-oriented or sociology-oriented manner. However, smart cities are the places where we leave and work everyday now. Here is a very broad perspective (in Italian) about the experience of big data analysis and smart city instrumentation for the town of Como, … Continue reading When a Smart City gets Personal
Within a completely new line of research, we are exploring the power of modeling for human behaviour analysis, especially within social networks and/or in occasion of large scale live events. Participation to challenges within social networks is a very effective instrument for promoting a brand or event and therefore it is regarded as an excellent … Continue reading Modeling and Analyzing Engagement in Social Network Challenges
Following up on my recent perspective that moves from model-driven development to hidden-model products, together with the Fluxedo team and in collaboration with WebRatio and Eurotech, we launched a new product called EventOmeters. EventOmeters allows businesses and event organizers to increase the effectiveness of their events, involving participants and being able to rely on certain measures for … Continue reading EventOmeters by Fluxedo: the new actor in Event Management. Mobile app + social media (semantic) analytics + IoT
My recent interview on the evolution of social media and its role in modern society is available on YouTube (in Italian only, sorry about that). While the 3+ minutes of speech necessarily had to be a general overview on the role and recent changes of social media, I wish to summarise here the some technical … Continue reading My interview on Social Media and Society: what I said (and what I didn’t)
At this point of the year, just before vacation time, it makes sense to me to think to Web Engineering practices at large and draw some trends and outlook for the field after this year.As a PC chair of ICWE 2012 (International Conference on Web Engineering), this year I can claim I had a privileged view over … Continue reading Trends in Web engineering: my 4 takes from ICWE 2012
