A need for new technological tools has emerged during the current Sars-Cov-2 pandemic. In particular, several mobile applications based on digital tracking and contact tracing have been developed, with ethical implications that have been addressed differently by a number of countries.

The SoBigData community published a white paper, entitled “Give more data, awareness and control to individual citizens, and they will help COVID-19 containment” (https://bit.ly/whitepaper_covid_sobigdata). The white paper states:

Human migration is a constant phenomenon in human history, and its study involves numerous research fields. To date, data not typically used for studying migration are increasingly available. These include the so-called social Big Data: digital traces left by humans through cell phones, online social networks, and online services. More and more technologies can be employed to extract information from these large datasets. However, how can Big Data help to understand the migration phenomenon?

How did the COVID-19 epidemics change our mobility habits, and how did it impact on people’s well-being and on the virus transmissibility?

In the first webinar of the seminar series organized by SoBigData, we will address these questions, as well as many others, from the perspective of Data Science and Environmental Epidemiology.

Sentiment Analysis is a sub-field of Natural Language Processing (NLP) that, combining tools and techniques from Linguistics and Computer Science, aims at systematically identifying, extracting, and studying emotional states and personal opinion in natural language.

Women's football took its first steps since the early twentieth-century. Unfortunately, the ostracism from the English Football Association drastically slowed down its development, which experienced a long period of stagnation. Women's football resurfaced in the 1960s in the Nordic countries of Europe, and it is now spreading all over the world. From 2012 the number of women academies has doubled, with around 40 million girls and women playing football worldwide nowadays.