Big Data can be useful also in navigation.

We interviewed Alessandro Dedominicis, Big Data Director at Navionics.

Navionics one of the biggest italian telematics and marine cartography companies and collaborates with the University of Pisa and the SoBigData Master. “A couple of years ago, almost accidentally, we realized that we had collected millions of data describing the behavior of our users” says Dedominicis. Dedominicis tells the history of Navionics in the last two years, since the Big Data adventure began, and today.

Mining a large number of datasets recording human activities for making sense of individual data is the key enabler of a new wave of personalized knowledge-based services. The video above is a promotional video for a paper that will be presented at KDD2017 in Halifax. In this paper we focus on the problem of clustering individual transactional data for a large mass of users. The authors of the paper are Riccardo Guidotti, Anna Monreale, Mirco Nanni, Fosca Giannotti, Dino Pedreschi.

Is the provision of knowledge enough, particularly given the proliferation of misinformation in the modern-day culture of fake news? Nature Communication tries to answer this question through an open editorial.

The SoBigData webdoc “Demal Te Niew” on return migration between Italy and Senegal has now been translated in Spanish and published on El Pais (you can find it here).

The SoBigData paper on “Returners and explorers dichotomy in human mobility” has just been published on an interdisciplinary collection of recent research on complex systems of Nature Communications. The prestigious journal choose to feature the article in the section on “Social Systems”. The authors are Luca Pappalardo, Filippo Simini, Salvatore Rinzivillo, Dino Pedreschi, Fosca Giannotti and Albert-László Barabási.

One of the most difficult tasks for scientists and researchers is to communicate the results of their activities and the effects on the everyday life.
In 2012 two research scientists at Imperial College London, Dr Michael Motskin and Dr Praveen Paul, started the Pint of Science events to have people meeting scientists in front of a pint of beer. In few years Pint of Science has quickly conquered hundreds of cities, in different countries in all continents.

The increasing interest on data science from both the academic and industrial worlds led to the creation of a brand new Ph.D.

At the Data Driven Life Workshop organized by the European Data Protection Supervisor, Dirk Helbing and Dino Pedreschi have been invited as panelists and Jeroen van den Hoven was the moderator. In the full recording of the workshop (see above) the panel starts at 6:27:30.

The European Parliament has adopted a resolution on the fundamental rights implications of big data.