ECTS - University of Pisa
In our digital society, every human activity is mediated by information technologies, hence leaving digital traces behind. These massive traces are stored in some, public or private, repository: phone call records, movement trajectories, and social media records are all examples of Big Data, a novel and powerful “social microscope” to understand the complexity of our societies. The analysis of big data sources is a complex task, involving the knowledge of several technological and methodological tools. This course has three objectives:
This course is meant to put at work the many data analytics technologies and competences: data mining, machine learning, social network analytics, visual analytics in realizing a whole Big data analytics project: from acquiring and analyzing big data from multiple sources to the purpose of discovering the patterns and models that explain certain phenomena, till the validation and presentation of the discoveries and the interpretation of the predictions.
The students will be exposed to experience in different domains: mobility and transportation, urban planning, demographics, economics, social relationships, opinion and sentiment, etc.; and on the analytical and mining methods that can be used.
This course has three objectives:
The assessment of the course consists of: (i) the presentation of a paper in the literature showing a real-world example of big data analytics project; (ii) the development, during the course, of a big data analytics project in team with other students; (iii) an oral exam where the student describes the developed project, the motivations behind it and the results obtained. During the oral exam the student must be able to demonstrate knowledge of the course contents and be able to discuss the topics thoughtfully and with propriety of expression.
The assessment of the course consists of: (i) the presentation of a paper in the literature showing a real-world example of big data analytics project; (ii) the development, during the course, of a big data analytics project in team with other students; (iii) an oral exam where the student describes the developed project, the motivations behind it and the results obtained. During the oral exam the student must be able to demonstrate knowledge of the course contents and be able to discuss the topics thoughtfully and with propriety of expression.
The student will be able to develop complex big data analytics projects, i.e., to pre-process and clean big and complex data, to perform predictive analytics, and to interpret and communicate the results of predictive models.
The student will be able to develop complex big data analytics projects, i.e., to pre-process and clean big and complex data, to perform predictive analytics, and to interpret and communicate the results of predictive models.
Good knowledge of Data Mining, Machine Learning, Databases and Programming.
Good knowledge of data mining, databases and (python) programming is required.
Module 1: Big Data Analytics and Social Mining
In this module, analytical methods and processes are presented thought exemplary cases studies in challenging domains, organized according to the following topics:
Module 2: Big Data Analytics Technologies
This module will provide to the students the technologies to collect, manipulate and process big data. In particular the following tools will be presented:
Module 3: Laboratory for Interactive Project Development
During the course, teams of students will be guided in the development of a big data analytics project. The projects will be based on real-world datasets covering several thematic areas. Discussions and presentation in class, at different stages of the project execution, will be performed.
Module 1: Big Data Analytics and Social Mining
In this module, analytical methods and processes are presented through exemplary cases studies in challenging domains, organized according to the following topics:
Module 2: Big Data Analytics Technologies
This module will provide to the students the technologies to collect, manipulate and process big data. In particular, the following tools will be presented:
Module 3: Laboratory for Interactive Project Development
During the course, teams of students will be guided in the development of a big data analytics project. The projects will be based on real-world datasets covering several thematic areas. Discussions and presentation in class, at different stages of the project execution, will be performed.
Several research papers will be provided to the aim of discuss new trends and developments on Big Data application scenarious. Some basilar white papers and reference books are the followings
1.F Giannotti, D Pedreschi, A Pentland, P Lukowicz, D Kossmann, J Crowley, D Helbing. A planetary nervous system for social mining and collective awareness. The European Physical Journal Special Topics 214 (1), 49-75, 2012
2.M Batty, KW Axhausen, F Giannotti, A Pozdnoukhov, A Bazzani, M Wachowicz. Smart cities of the future. The European Physical Journal Special Topics 214 (1), 481-518, 2012
Agrawal et al. Challenges and Opportunities with Big Data 2011-1 (2011). Cyber Center Technical Reports. Paper 1. http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/cctech/1
Data, data everywhere. The Economist, Special Report on Big Data, February 2010.
Data Science for Business -- Foster Provost, Tom Fawcett, Publisher: O'Reilly Media
SOCIAL MEDIA E SENTIMENT ANALYSIS L'EVOLUZIONE DEI FENOMENI SOCIALI ATTRAVERSO LA RETE Ceron Andrea; Curini Luigi; Iacus Stefano 2014
Selection of papers of applied data science project will available on course website for student presentations and interactive discussions.
Following technologies will be introduced and used within the project development:
1.The Jupyter Notebook: for developing open-source and reproducible data science
2.MongoDB: fast querying and aggregation in NoSQL databases
3.GeoPandas: analyze geo-spatial data with Python
4.Scikit-learn: programming tools for data mining and analysis
5.M-Atlas: a toolkit for mobility data mining
Several research papers will be provided to the aim of discuss new trends and developments on Big Data application scenarious. Some basilar white papers and reference books are the followings
1.F Giannotti, D Pedreschi, A Pentland, P Lukowicz, D Kossmann, J Crowley, D Helbing. A planetary nervous system for social mining and collective awareness. The European Physical Journal Special Topics 214 (1), 49-75, 2012
2.M Batty, KW Axhausen, F Giannotti, A Pozdnoukhov, A Bazzani, M Wachowicz. Smart cities of the future. The European Physical Journal Special Topics 214 (1), 481-518, 2012
Agrawal et al. Challenges and Opportunities with Big Data 2011-1 (2011). Cyber Center Technical Reports. Paper 1. http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/cctech/1
Data, data everywhere. The Economist, Special Report on Big Data, February 2010.
Data Science for Business -- Foster Provost, Tom Fawcett, Publisher: O'Reilly Media
SOCIAL MEDIA E SENTIMENT ANALYSIS L'EVOLUZIONE DEI FENOMENI SOCIALI ATTRAVERSO LA RETE Ceron Andrea; Curini Luigi; Iacus Stefano 2014
Following technologies will be introduced and used within the project development:
1.The Jupyter Notebook: for developing open-source and reproducible data science
2.MongoDB: fast querying and aggregation in NoSQL databases
3.GeoPandas: analyze geo-spatial data with Python
4.Scikit-learn: programming tools for data mining and analysis
5.M-Atlas: a toolkit for mobility data mining
