SoBigData: Social Mining & Big Data Ecosystem: The SoBigData Research Infrastructure (RI) provides an integrated ecosystem for ethic-sensitive scientific discoveries and advanced applications of social data mining on the various dimensions of social life as recorded by “big data”. The research community uses the SoBigData facilities as a “secure digital wind-tunnel” for large-scale social data analysis and simulation experiments SoBigData promotes repeatable and open science. Its mission is to support data science research projects by providing:

• An ever-growing, distributed data ecosystem for procurement, access and curation and management of big social data, to underpin social data mining research within an ethic-sensitive context.
• An ever-growing, distributed platform of interoperable, social data mining methods and associated skills: tools, methodologies and services for mining, analysing, and visualising complex and massive datasets, harnessing the techno-legal barriers to the ethically safe deployment of big data for social mining.
• An ecosystem where protection of personal information and the respect for fundamental human rights can coexist with a safe use of the same information for scientific purposes of broad and central societal interest. SoBigData has a dedicated ethical and legal board, which is implementing a legal and ethical framework.

Talk by Roberto Trasarti.