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.
Yesterday morning SoBigData researchers went in Livorno (Italy) to the ITI Galilei High Scholl. They met the young students and told them what role big data plays in everyday life. Dino Pedreschi (University of Pisa) explained the data scientist job and young data scientists from University of Pisa and CNR showed their latest works and answered to student's questions. Can we say if a music song is happy by analysing data? What ca we understand through Instagram selfie? Does women and men have the same chanches in the labour market? What are the main migrant's ways today?
The latest SoBigData dissemination project has just began. With the project “Datajournalism at school”, high school students will learn how to look for news in a huge amount of data and how to tell a story starting from a scientific result.
Today 15 of So Big Data Master 2016 students discussed their final thesis. They all all graduated with honors.
The final thesis discussed today are about many fields, like the use of Facebook as a marketing support in the field of cycling analysis, the sale Lottomatica performance, the world of insurance, the gas turbines and many others.
The event was organized in the Gerace classroom of the Computer Science Department of the University of Pisa. There were the partner companies, thet have followed the boys during the stage and the master teachers.
"Meet the Life Sciences" interview with Paolo Ferragina, SoBigData datascientist at University of Pisa.
The interactive web-documentary “Demal te niew” (Go and come back in Wolof) mixes different media and languages and it is aimed at overturning the European perspective on migration. "Demal te niew" adopts an original standpoint: it focuses on the stories of return migrants from Italy to Senegal.