Nexa Center for Internet and Society Newsletter Se non visualizzi correttamente questo messaggio clicca qui <http://nexa.polito.it/lunch-extra1> NEXA /Extra/ Nexa Lunch Seminar Mercoledi 4 ottobre 2017, ore 13.00 - 14.00 Politecnico di Torino http://nexa.polito.it/lunch-extra1 Understanding and rewiring cities using big data Speaker Bruno Lepri (Fondazione Bruno Kessler) This event will be webcast live: http://nexa.polito.it/upcoming-events In the last decades, cities have been largely acknowledged as complex and emergent systems as opposed to top-down planned entities. Thus, *a new city science is emerging that aims at an empirical analysis of urbanization processes*. However, it is evident the lack of understanding of the dynamics that regulate people interactions, their relationship with urban characteristics, and their influence on socio-economic outcomes of cities. Nowadays, massive streams of human behavioural data and urban data combined with increased analytical capabilities are creating unprecedented possibilities for understanding global patterns of human behaviour and for helping researchers to better understand relevant problems for cities and also whole societies. For example, analysing the digital traces people leave every day (e.g., mobile phones and social media data, credit card transactions, etc.) researchers were able, among the other things, *to estimate the socio-economic status of territories, to monitor the vitality of urban areas and to predict neighbourhood’s crime levels*. In my talk, I describe some recent works where we have leveraged data from public and from commercial entities in order (i) to infer how vital and liveable a city is, (ii) to find the urban conditions (e.g., mixed land use, mobility, safety perception, etc.) that magnify and influence urban life, (iii) to study their relationship with societal outcomes such as poverty, criminality, innovation, segregation, and (iv) to envision data-driven guidelines for helping policy makers to respond to the demands of citizens. Our results open the door for a *new research framework to study and to understand cities, and societies*, by means of computational tools (i.e. machine learning approaches) and novel sources of data able to describe human life with an unprecedented breath, scale and depth. /Ingresso libero - Saranno disponibili panini e bibite per coloro che si saranno registrati su http://extralunch.eventbrite.com/ <http://extralunch.eventbrite.com> entro il 2 ottobre./ BIOGRAFIE - e informazioni supplementari [LEPRI] BRUNO LEPRI leads the Mobile and Social Computing Lab (MobS) and is vice-responsible of the Complex Data Analytics research line at Bruno Kessler Foundation (Trento, Italy). He recently launched an alliance between MIT and FBK on Human Dynamics Observatories. He is also a senior research affiliate of Data-Pop Alliance, the first think-tank on Big Data and Development co-created by the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative, MIT Media Lab, Overseas Development Institute to promote a people-centered big data revolution. In 2010 he won a Marie Curie Cofund post-doc fellow and he has held post-doc positions at FBK and at MIT Media Lab. He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Trento. His research interests include computational social science, big data and personal data, human behavior understanding, and new models for personal data management and monetization. His research has received attention from several press outlets and obtained the best paper award at ACM Ubicomp 2014. His work on personal data management was one of the case studies discussed at the World Economic Forum. Letture consigliate e link utili: * M. De Nadai, R. Vieriu, G. Zen, S. Dragivecic, N. Naik, M. Caraviello, C. Hidalgo, N. Sebe, and B. Lepri,/Are Safer Looking Neighborhoods More Lively? A Multimodal Investigation into Urban Life <https://arxiv.org/abs/1608.00462>/, in Proceedings of ACM-MM 2016. * M. De Nadai, J. Staiano, R. Larcher, N. Sebe, D. Quercia, and B. Lepri, /The Life and Death of Great Italian Cities: A Mobile Phone Data Perspective <https://arxiv.org/pdf/1603.04012.pdf>/, in Proceedings of WWW 2016. * N. Naik, S. D. Kominers, R. Raskar, E. L. Glaeser, C. Hidalgo,/Computer Vision Uncovers Predictors of Physical Urban Change <http://www.pnas.org/content/114/29/7571.full>/, PNAS 2017. * E. L. Glaeser,/The Triumph of City: How Our Greatest Invention Makes us Richer, Smarter, Greener, Healthier, and Happier <https://www.amazon.com/Triumph-City-Greatest-Invention-Healthier/dp/0143120549>/. Che cosa sono il Centro Nexa e i cicli di incontri “Mercoledì di Nexa” e “Nexa Lunch Seminar” Il Centro Nexa su Internet & Società del Politecnico di Torino (Dipartimento di Automatica e Informatica) è un centro di ricerca indipendente e interdisciplinare che studia Internet e il suo effetto sulla società. Maggiori informazioni all'indirizzo: http://nexa.polito.it/about. Durante i “*Mercoledì di Nexa*”, che si tengono *ogni 2° mercoledì del mese* alle *ore 18 in punto*, il Centro Nexa su Internet e Società apre le sue porte non solo agli esperti e a tutti coloro i quali lavorano con Internet, ma anche a semplici appassionati e cittadini. Il ciclo di incontri intende approfondire, con un linguaggio preciso ma divulgativo, i temi legati alla Rete: motori di ricerca, Creative Commons, social networks, open source/software libero, neutralità della rete, libertà di espressione, privacy, file sharing, big e open data, smart cities e molto altro. Al centro di quasi tutti gli incontri un ospite pronto a dialogare con i direttori del Centro Nexa, il Prof. Juan Carlos De Martin del Politecnico di Torino e il Prof. Marco Ricolfi dell'Università di Torino, nonché lo staff e i Fellows del Centro Nexa. Maggiori informazioni sui Mercoledì di Nexa, incluso un elenco di tutti i “Mercoledì” passati, sono disponibili all'indirizzo: http://nexa.polito.it/mercoledi. Si segnala inoltre che dal maggio 2012 *ogni 4° mercoledì* del mese *dalle ore 13 alle ore 14* il Centro Nexa organizza anche i "*Nexa Lunch Seminar*". Una lista di tutti i “Lunch Seminar” passati è disponibile all'indirizzo: http://nexa.polito.it/lunch-seminars. See our events calendar <http://nexa.polito.it/events> if you're curious about future luncheons, discussions, lectures, and conferences not listed in this email. Our events are free and open to the public, unless otherwise noted. 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