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.
Tag: data science
News Sharing Behaviour on Twitter. A Dataset and a Pipeline
Online social media are changing the news industry and revolutionizing the traditional role of journalists and newspapers. In this scenario, investigating the behaviour of users in relationship to news sharing is relevant, as it provides means for understanding the impact of online news, their propagation within social communities, their impact on the formation of opinions, … Continue reading News Sharing Behaviour on Twitter. A Dataset and a Pipeline
Understanding Polarized Political Events through Social Media Analysis
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
IEEE Big Data Conference 2017: take home messages from the keynote speakers
I collected here the list of my write-ups of the first three keynote speeches of the conference: Human in the Loop Machine Learning (Carla E. Brodley, Northeastern Univ.) Enhancing Human Perception via Text Mining and IR (Cheng Zhai, Univ. Illinois) Graph Representation Learning (Jure Leskovec, Stanford and Pinterest)
Driving Style and Behavior Analysis based on Trip Segmentation over GPS Information through Unsupervised Learning
Over one billion cars interact with each other on the road every day. Each driver has his own driving style, which could impact safety, fuel economy and road congestion. Knowledge about the driving style of the driver could be used to encourage "better" driving behaviour through immediate feedback while driving, or by scaling auto insurance … Continue reading Driving Style and Behavior Analysis based on Trip Segmentation over GPS Information through Unsupervised Learning
A Curated List of WWW 2017 Papers for Data Science and Web Science
This year the WWW conference 2017 is definitely focusing a lot of emphasis on Web Science and Data Science. I'm recording here a list of papers I found interesting at the conference, related to this topic. Disclaimer: the list may be incomplete, as I did not go through all the papers. So in case you want … Continue reading A Curated List of WWW 2017 Papers for Data Science and Web Science
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
Urbanscope: Digital Whispers from the Urban Landscape. TedX Talk Video
Together with the Urbanscope team, we gave a TedX talk on the topics and results of the project here at Politecnico di Milano. The aim of Urbanscope is to systematically produce compelling views on urban systems to foster understanding and decision making.
The role of Big Data in Banks
I was listening at R. Martin Chavez, Goldman Sachs deputy CFO just last month in Harvard at the ComputeFest 2017 event, more precisely, the SYMPOSIUM ON THE FUTURE OF COMPUTATION IN SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING on "Data, Dollars, and Algorithms: The Computational Economy" held in Harvard on Thursday, January 19, 2017. His claim was that Banks are essentially API providers. The … Continue reading The role of Big Data in Banks
The Harvard-Politecnico Joint Program on Data Science in full bloom
After months of preparation, here we are. This week we kicked off the second edition of the DataShack program on Data Science that brings together interdisciplinary teams of data science, software engineering & computer science, and design students from Harvard (Institute of Applied Computational Science) and Politecnico di Milano (faculties of Engineering and Design). The … Continue reading The Harvard-Politecnico Joint Program on Data Science in full bloom