Abstract We studied international migrations of researchers, scientists, and academics, to better understand the so-called “brain drain” phenomenon, if and how it can be measured,…
Posts published in “computational social science”
“Developing Real Estate Automated Valuation Models by Learning from Heterogeneous Data Sources” is out!
Abstract In this paper we propose a data acquisition methodology, and a Machine Learning solution for the partially automated evaluation of real estate properties. The…
Age of misinformation: an interdisciplinary outlook on fake news
With the spread of web 2.0 and digital technologies, the divide between producers and consumers – of culture, of science, of news – has become…
Our study on “Immigration as a Divisive Topic” is out on Future Internet
Our analysis of the italian debate around #immigration in Twitter has been published on Future Internet (MDPI – Open Access)! Spoiler alert: political orientation of…
The emergence of structural inequalities from a nation-wide wire transfers network
Five Years. Not a Bowie’s song, but the time we took to collect/clean/analyse wire transfers’s data, build a network and get all the necessary authorizations…
“Research trends on misinformation” tutorial at DSAA 2020
Giancarlo Ruffo and Alfonso Semeraro will be giving a tutorial on the current research on misinformation, with a focus on fake-news spreading dynamics and fact-checking.…
Our latest on Brexit and stance detection is out
Our paper “#Brexit: Leave or remain? the role of user’s community and diachronic evolution on stance detection” (with Mirko Lai, Viviana Patti, and Paolo Rosso)…
Our test “Can you spot fake-news?” is on line
After many months (if not years) of design, check, re-design cycles, we are finally proud to announce that our test “”Can you spot fake-news?” is…
Our latest paper is out: “Contro L’Odio”: A Platform for Detecting, Monitoring and Visualizing Hate Speech against Immigrants in Italian Social Media.
Abstract The paper describes the Web platform built within the project “Contro l’Odio”, for monitoring and contrasting discrimination and hate speech against immigrants in Italy.…
“News and the City” is finally out! Check out EPJ Data Science
“News and the city: understanding online press consumption patterns through mobile data” has been accepted and published as regular paper in EPJ Data Science. It…