I've been invited to give a keynote talk at the WISE 2022 Conference. Thinking about it, I decided to focus on my idea of a bi-verse. To me, the bi-verse is the duality between the physical and digital worlds. On one side, the Web and social media are the environments where people post their content, … Continue reading Exploring the bi-verse: a trip across the digital and physical ecospheres
Category: smartcity
The Final TRIGGER Conference
We will join and contribute to the final TRIGGER conference is scheduled for May 31st, 2022 in Brussels. The theme is: "Rethinking the EU’s role in global governance". In this context, the TRIGGER project is going to present the main research outcomes of the H2020 research program that started in 2018, setting the stage for the collaboration … Continue reading The Final TRIGGER Conference
Analysis of Online Reviews for Evaluating the Quality of Cultural Tourism
we explored if social media and online review platforms can be a good source of quantitative evaluation of service quality of cultural venues, such as museums, theaters and so on.
Coronavirus stories and data
Coronavirus COVID-19 is an extreme challenge for our society, economy, and individual life. However, governments should have learnt from each other. The impact has been spreading slowly across countries. There has been plenty of time to take action. But apparently people and government can’t grasp the risk until it’s onto them. And the way European … Continue reading Coronavirus stories and data
Myths and Challenges in Knowledge Extraction and Big Data Analysis
The knowledge we may try to extract from human-generated content, IoT and Web sources can be dispersed, informal, contradicting, unsubstantiated and ephemeral today, while already tomorrow it may be commonly accepted.
The challenge is to capture and create consolidated knowledge that is new, has not been formalized yet in existing knowledge bases, and is buried inside a big, moving target (the live stream of online data).
The myth is that existing tools (spanning fields like semantic web, machine learning, statistics, NLP, and so on) suffice to the objective.
I explore the problem that one can face along this path.
Urban Data Science Bootcamp
We organize a crash-course on how the science of urban data can be applied to solve metropolitan issues. The course is a 2 days face-to-face event with teaching sessions, workshops, case study discussions and hands-on activities for non-IT professionals in the field of city management. It is issued in two editions along the year: in … Continue reading Urban Data Science Bootcamp
Social Media Behaviour during Live Events: the Milano Fashion Week #MFW case
We study spreading of social content in space during live events, measuring the spreading of the event propagation in space. We build didifferent clusters of fashion brands, we characterize several features of propagation in space and we correlate them to the popularity of the brand and temporal propagation.