SoBigData Conference: Data Science for Society
Contact: Prof. Paolo Ferragina, Professore Ordinario di Algoritmi, Università di Pisa
Scientific Committee: Paolo Ferragina, Università di Pisa; Fosca Giannotti, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche di Pisa; Fabrizio Lillo, Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa e Università di Bologna; Dino Pedreschi, Università di Pisa;
Topics: Data science and its applications, Data-driven innovation, Industry 4.0, (Web) Search engines, Start ups on sport and well-being, SoBigData EU project, SoBigData Tuscan Data Challenge, Responsible data science.
Program:
08:30 – 09:15 Registration
09:15 – 09:30 Welcome and introduction, Fosca Giannotti (ISTI-CNR Pisa)
09:30 – 10:00 Invited talk: Active Question Answering, Massimiliano Ciaramita (Google, Zurich)
10:00 – 10:30 Coffee break
10:30 – 12:00 Data Science @ SoBigData
- Societal Debates: Computational Analysis of Rumours and Fake News, Kalina Bontcheva (University of Sheffield)
- City of Citizens: BigData Tuscany — Polycentric cities and competing airports, Mirco Nanni (ISTI-CNR Pisa)
- Migration studies: Understanding it!, Christina Muntean (ISTI-CNR Pisa)
- Economic performance: Risk in Financial Networks, Fabrizio Lillo (University of Bologna and SNS Pisa)
- Social Sensing: Digital DNA fingerprinting for spambots detection, Stefano Cresci (IIT-CNR Pisa)
- Social Network Analysis: Entropy-based approach to the analysis of bipartite networks, Fabio Saracco (IMT Lucca)
- Algorithmic Methods: Fast ranking of documents in Web search engines, Rossano Venturini (University of Pisa)
12:00 – 13:00 Start-up stories on data-driven Innovation in sport and well-being
- Wyscout, Emanuele Massucco
- MYagonism, Paolo Raineri
- TennisCommander, Giuseppe Prencipe
- BioBeats, Davide Morelli
- Sport data analytics: predicting performance, Paolo Cintia (ISTI-CNR Pisa)
13:00 – 14:00 Lunch time
14:00 – 14:30 Invited talk: Towards Industrial Machine Intelligence, Michael May (Siemens, Munich)
14:30 – 15:10 SoBigData Tuscan Data Challenge
- FIAT: Anomaly detection from streams of automotive data, Raffaele Perego (ISTI-CNR Pisa)
- MPS: Recommendation systems for financial advisors, Daniele Regoli (SNS Pisa)
- Autolex: automatic legal advice for unfair commercial practices, Marco Cornolti (University of Pisa)
- Kinoa: from data to knowledge to improve roads accessibility, Paolo Cintia (ISTI-CNR Pisa) and Luca Pappalardo (University of Pisa)
15:10 – 15.25 Data-driven innovation for better health and economic sustainability of health care systems, Giuseppe Turchetti (Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna)
15:25 – 15.40 Responsible data science, Anna Monreale (University of Pisa)
15:40 – 16:00 SoBigData Training: Stories from the Master in Big Data Analytics, Dino Pedreschi (University of Pisa)
16:00 – 16:30 Concluding remarks
Paolo Ferragina (University of Pisa)