Can Data save the world? Learning from the experience of COVID-19 — Data is generated by anything and anyone today. But can data save the world? Actually, data and data science are powerful means for exploring and understanding any phenomenon. The COVID-19 pandemic is one of the first worldwide scenarios where data made a difference in capturing and analyzing the diffusion and…

Top universities releasing MOOCs and educational materials for public good — A large partnership of 30+ top European universities and associations of professionals worked together for the last two years to study data, policies, actions, and effects of pandemic management. This activity was conducted within the Periscope research consortium. …

A reflection on how Active Intelligence will affect our life — Precisely as the microbiota contributes and enables human life thanks to a synergic interaction with a large set of third-party entities (micro-organisms primarily located in our guts) within the human body, today human life benefits from another contextual synergy, coming from the digital ecosystem: we call this contribution the HumanTechBiota…

The Experience of Italian Museums — In the cultural tourism field, there has been an increasing interest in adopting data-driven approaches that are aimed at measuring the quality of service through online reviews. …

Real-time analysis of Twitter content about the role of Europe and other international players — Social media data offers a rich source for analysing the views of individuals on ongoing (political) processes. What are the concerns of twitter users about climate change? How concerns and interests change in the context of large-scale public events, like COP 26 in Glasgow? More specifically, we are interested in…

The fact that we live in a world driven by data becomes clear when suddenly systems are being disrupted. We need ways to use and benefit from the data we produce and collect, and at the same time, we need to be resilient to problems that may arise from their…

We live in a world that is driven by data — The fact that we live in a world driven by data becomes clear when suddenly systems are being disrupted. We need ways to use and benefit from the data we produce and collect, and at the same time, we need to be resilient to problems that may arise from their…

The case of the Big Four Fashion Weeks — Social media is dominating day-to-day people’s life. In our life, it has taken the role of both a source of information and a place where to share personal experiences and opinions. In particular, it has demonstrated huge potential in communication, interactions, and community building during large-scale events, such as the…

A data science multi-disciplinary project to study and reduce “transport poverty” in Sub-Saharan countries — In many developing countries, basic services and activities including transportation, food provisioning, and private mobility solutions cannot be taken for granted. In many regions of the world, transportation services are not provided on an organized and structured basis. This means that you cannot expect buses or trains to run according…