By Stephen Bruestle, PhD. (Economics)

Host: SoBigData.IT - KDD Lab, ISTI-CNR, Pisa, Italy

Most economists do not use clustering. We like to identify a small, fixed number of parameters. And, clustering has many parameters.

Economics will have to change to stay relevant. Developments in data and data science make clustering more practical. Businesses are relying more on clustering. Economists should do the same.

My idea is simple. I will use clustering to solve an economics problem. Specifically, I will use clustering to define markets.

By Gaurav Pandey, Faculty of Information Technology, University of Jyväskylä, Finland

Host: Avishek Anand, Assistant Professor, L3S Research Center, Hannover, Germany

The impetus for me to become a SoBigData fellow came to mind while I was monitoring the use of crowdsourcing for the Kenyan Presidential elections of 2017.

by Giulia Preti, dbTrento Group, University of Trento, Italy

In Ocotober 18 2018 Dino Pedreschi took part in the Policy Dialogue with European University Institute
on “EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT ELECTIONS - CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES OF NEW DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES”

NLP APPROACHES TO RHETORIC AND RESONANCE IN BREXIT TWEETS

Yin Yin Lu, Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford

I arrived at the Fraunhofer Institute for Computer Graphics Research IGD this April armed with 26 million EU referendum tweets and an age-old question about rhetoric: What makes persuasive content work? In this age of limited attention, does content even matter?