After about eight years of algorithm design, software development and tuning, and large experimental tests I wish to share in this post the news about the public availability of a robust API offering some powerful entity-linking functionalities which are based on the tools we have published in the last few years: TagMe, WAT, SWAT and SMAPH.

All these tools can be now freely accessed via the EU SoBigData Infrastructure.

The description of each of the four tools is present in that page, I summarize here their main characteristics:

University of Pisa, CNR and FC Barcelona have created an algorithm able to predict more than 50% of the muscular injuries of a professional football team.

Accidents have a major impact on the performance and budget of sports clubs. The most recent example is the injury of the "Matador" Cavani which proved to be decisive for the defeat of Uruguay in the last world cup in Russia.

Dino Pedreschi's article on the most important Italian business daily newspaper Sole24ore talks about #AI, #BlackBoxes and the right to #Explanation
#explainableAI #ethics #humanAI.

Google will fund a project aimed at developing Computational Thinking for teachers in science and technology in secondary schools. The project, one of the three winners of the Google Educator Grant Award in Italy, was conceived by Paolo Ferragina, professor of the Department of Computer Science of Pisa University and member of SoBigData, and Fabrizio Luccio, professor of the Department of Computer Science of Pisa University.

Prof. Dino Pedreschi, pioneer of Big Data Analytics, helps us to understand Artificial Intelligence with examples and simulations at the TAM TAM TALKS promoted by Generali Italia.

Better Life Index (BLI), the measure of well-being proposed by the OECD, contains many metrics, which enable it to include a detailed overview of the social, economic, and environmental performances of different countries. However, this also increases the difficulty in evaluating the big picture. In order to overcome this, many composite BLI procedures have been proposed, but none of them takes into account societal priorities in the aggregation.

SoBigData organised the course for italian journalists: "Data journalism and Big Data: the revolution of journalistic information in the age of the Internet and social networks".

On July the 7th some SoBigData reaserchers and collaborators (Giulio Rossetti, Daniele Fadda, Michela Natilli, Laura Pollacci, Andrea Marchetti, Viola Bachini) went to Grosseto (Italy) and talked about the theoretical knowledge and practical skills in data-driven journalism.

The course was co-organized and accredited by the Italian National Council of Journalists.

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