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.
At the "Measuring Migrations" workshop, a side event of the NTTS2017 conference, Fosca Giannotti, Dino Pedreschi and Alina Sirbu have contributed with a talk titled "Exploring human mobility and migration with BigData: research at SoBigData.eu".
Algorithm can create a bridge between Clinton and Trump supporters -a research from Aalto University
A growing number of people have expressed their concern about high levels of polarization in the society. For instance, the World Economic Forum’s report on global risks lists the increasing societal polarization as a threat – and others have suggested that social media might be contributing to this phenomenon.