Predicting the outcome of elections is a topic that has been extensively studied in political polls, which have generally provided reliable predictions by means of statistical models. In recent years, online social media platforms have become a potential alternative to traditional polls, since they provide large amounts of post and user data, also referring to … Continue reading Understanding Polarized Political Events through Social Media Analysis
On Friday, January 22, 2016 I attended a very interesting symposium organised by Harvard University Institute for Computational Science on "BRAIN + MACHINES: EXPLORING THE FRONTIERS OF NEUROSCIENCE AND COMPUTER SCIENCE". Although it fell outside my main research fields, I found it very interesting and enlightening. And the discussed topics could also imply some crucial … Continue reading "What’s special about us?" Harvard computational science symposium on Brain+Computer systems
