Valerio Grossi, Project Manager of SoBigData, explains what is our infrastructure and what we do.
We interviewed Dino Pedreschi in Pisa during Internet Festival 2016. He talked about data scientist: "We are living a revolution. All industrial revolutions destroys old jobs but at the same time creates new ones. Now we need data scientists, people who can find, analyse, understand data and tell stories around them. Through our master we are trying to create the best data scientists".
The Tuscan Big Data Challenge is a free opportunity for all the Tuscan companies that want to explore how big data could help their business.
On September 5th, 2016 the 1st International SoBigData Workshop took place in Hannover in conjunction with the TPDL 2016. The attractive program attracted around 65 researchers and practitioners from researchers, policy makers, data provider, data scientists, etc. from all over Europe to get insights societal challenges and discuss potential big data solutions as they are currently developed in SoBigData.
For my SoBigData++ Transnational Access visit, I spent one month in Pisa working on evolutionary game theory and higher-order network science at CNR-ISTI. The main purpose of my TNA experience was to begin a new project studying the emergence of cooperation in group interactions. In this project, the goal is to develop models of temporally evolving group interactions (using hypergraphs) that are changing according to rules based on the dynamics of evolutionary games.
As a media scholar primarily focused on sociology, the opportunity to participate in the SoBigData++ TNA program at the Department of Computer Science, University of Sheffield, presented both a formidable challenge and a unique avenue for improving analysis skills. The study of media, and particularly online disinformation, has reached a point where remaining confined within the boundaries of one's own discipline is no longer feasible. The necessity for cross-disciplinary skills has become paramount.