Knowledge in the world continuously evolves, and ontologies are largely incomplete. We propose a method and a tool for discovering emerging entities by extracting them from social media. Once instrumented by experts through very simple initialization, the method is capable of finding emerging entities; we propose a mixed syntactic + semantic method.
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Spark-based Big Data Analysis of Semantic IFML Models and Web Logs for Enhanced User Behavior Analytics
I'd like to report on our demonstration paper at WWW 2017, focusing on Spark-based Big Data Analysis of Semantic IFML Models and Web Logs for Enhanced User Behavior Analytics. The motivation of the work is that no approaches exist for merging web log analysis and statistics with information about the Web application structure, content and semantics. Indeed, … Continue reading Spark-based Big Data Analysis of Semantic IFML Models and Web Logs for Enhanced User Behavior Analytics
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.
Data Science for Good City Life
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 a Smart City gets Personal
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
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 Dawn of a new Digital Renaissance in Cultural Heritage
Fluxedo joined forces with the Observatory of Digital Innovation in Arts & Culture Heritage (Osservatorio per l'innovazione digitale nei beni e attività culturali) by the School of Management (MIP) of Politecnico di Milano, for covering the social media analytics of Italian and international museums. The results of the work have been presented during an event on January … Continue reading The Dawn of a new Digital Renaissance in Cultural Heritage
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
Modeling and Analyzing Engagement in Social Network Challenges
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
Business Process Management & Enterprise Architecture track of ACM SAC 2017
This year I'm co-organizing with Davide Rossi and a bunch of experts in Business Process Management and Enterprise Architecture a new event called BPM-EA, which aims at bringing together the broad topics of business processes, modeling, and enterprise architecture. These disciplines are quickly evolving and intertwining with each other, and are often referred to with the broad … Continue reading Business Process Management & Enterprise Architecture track of ACM SAC 2017