Can your Facebook friendships help in predicting your next phone call? While network science is a pivotal tool to characterize the structure of real world complex systems, link prediction algorithms can help to reconstruct networks from incomplete data sets and to forecast future interactions in evolving networks. Facebook, indeed, is a good example of how the second task may be routinely applied on online social networks.

Big Data, salute e impatto sociale: Fondazione ISI alla Biennale Tecnologia di Torino

ISI Foundation partner of Periscope, a new H2020 project funded by the European Commission to understand social, economic, behavioural and mental health related aspects of the COVID-19 pandemic

I modelli epidemiologici predittivi sono modelli matematici che individuano alcuni parametri chiave e, analizzando i dati disponibili, propongono scenari possibili sull’andamento di un'epidemia. Prima dell'arrivo del Covid-19, questi modelli erano conosciuti soprattutto dagli addetti ai lavori: gli scienziati che li sviluppavano e i sistemi sanitari che li utilizzavano per la prevenzione e il controllo delle epidemie (come avvenuto con successo, per esempio, nei casi di Ebola e Zika).

Low-dimensional embeddings, from classical spectral embeddings to modern neural-net-inspired methods, are a cornerstone in the modeling and analysis of complex networks.

Lunedì 12 ottobre saranno presentati i risultati del lavoro degli otto borsisti Lagrange attualmente al lavoro presso OGR, dove Fondazione ISI e Fondazione CRT hanno stabilito un centro focalizzato su "Data Science for Social Good".

È online “Eventi e Covid-19”, piattaforma che stima il rischio di presenza del virus in eventi collettivi

Covid doesn't stop WiDS . For the third consecutive year, ISI Foundation is one of the 75+ locations worldwide hosting the Stanford Women in Data Science conference. The event for women leadership and innovation will take place online, Monday 28th September.

ISI Foundation is joining NetSci 2020, the flagship conference of the Network Science Society, taking place online from 17 to 25 September, with a strong participation in satellite symposiums and main conference talks.

Se vogliamo una vita normale dobbiamo imparare a vedere l’invisibile e capirne i rischi. Solo così il virus sarà sempre in un angolo. Il vero coraggio non è fare finta di niente, immaginare che tutto sia tornato alla normalità. E’ guardare negli occhi il nemico e rispettarlo

The complexity of many biological, social and technological systems stems from the richness of the interactions among their units. Over the past two decades, a great variety of complex systems has been successfully described as networks whose interacting pairs of nodes are connected by links.

From ending hunger and poverty to overcoming gender inequalities, from ensuring quality education to tackling sustainability issues, the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) adopted by all United Nations Member States in 2015 constitute a roadmap of the broad set of challenges that our society is facing today.

Le simulazioni al computer permettono di anticipare e seguire la trasmissione di malattie nel mondo, suggerendo le mosse per affrontare patogeni in grado di scatenare crisi sanitarie globali 

Populations of mobile agents, such as animal groups, robot swarms, or crowds of people, exhibit fascinating collective behaviors as a result of the spread of information, like a potential threat or opportunity.

The annual KDD conference is the premier interdisciplinary conference bringing together researchers and practitioners from data science, data mining, knowledge discovery, large-scale data analytics, and big data. The 26th edition of KDD is being held as a virtual conference, with online talks and panels, from 23rd to 27th August 2020.

An interacting group of people, the collectively active neurons in the brain, or the transportation system of a city. These are examples of complex systems, which are all intrinsically dynamical. They can be commonly interpreted as a set of entities, which interact over time and form a network structure coding the architecture of the system in hand.

Mobile data collection, data analysis through artificial intelligence,  the use of satellite imagery in creating detection models to identify informal settlements and calculating poverty, and - as it's happening in the COVID-19 global crisis - the development of new models to predict and evaluate the evolution of a pandemic emergency and the effects of public health interventions.

On February 21, 2020, a cluster of SARS-CoV-2 cases was officially reported in the province of Lodi, marking the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic in Italy.

What can digital and computational approaches reveal about the relationships between mortality, fertility, mobility, and the spread of COVID-19?

Cities are not gender-neutral, nor is urban mobility. In a new paper out in Humanities and Social Science Communications, an international team of researchers, including ISI Foundation Ciro Cattuto, Laetitia Gauvin, Michele Tizzoni, Stefaan Verhulst and Simone Piaggesi, analyzes call detail records for a large cohort of anonymized mobile phone users, to reveal a gender gap in mobility.

Sometimes it takes a lot of time. After eight years working at the interface of topological data analysis and network theory, ISI  Foundation Senior Research Scientist Giovanni Petri has led an international team of researchers, including former ISI Junior Researchers Alice Patania and Iacopo Iacopini, to compile, elaborate and present one of the first complete overviews of the emerging field of networks beyond pairwise interactions.

Why do Trump supporters support Trump? How was his political campaign able to attract a large support, ultimately reshaping the U.S. political landscape?

Siamo nel mezzo di una rivoluzione che non ha precedenti: la rivoluzione digitale. La nostra vita è sempre più dipendente da grandi masse di dati, dalle quali gli strumenti generati dall'impetuoso sviluppo dell'Intelligenza Artificiale permettono di estrarre informazioni e conoscenza, facendone un ingrediente potente, prezioso e cruciale dei processi decisionali.

In a global society where the always increasing mobile connectivity affects every aspect of our daily lives, socio-demographic attributes are highly associated to specific news media consumption patterns. This is one of the results coming from a new paper published in EPJ Data Science.

Francesco Bonchi has been appointed as the new Scientific Director of ISI Foundation.

Online and kicking. Originally set in Taipei, inside the program of the Web Conference 2020, the Data Science for Social Good workshop developed as a series of online Zoom presentations, with participants joining from home.

How can online surveys help monitoring diseases? ISI Foundation  Researcher Daniela Paolotti will focus on this issue on a webinar hosted by the School of Sciences and Technologies of the University of  Camerino, Tuesday 21th April at 16.30 (CET).

In recent years, many studies have drawn attention to the important role of collective awareness and human behaviour during epidemic outbreaks. A number of modelling efforts have investigated the interaction between the disease transmission dynamics and human behaviour change mediated by news coverage and by information spreading in the population.

ISI Foundation is among the members of EpiPose, a new European project that aims to provide urgently needed answers about the epidemiological characteristics of COVID-19, the behavioural dynamics of the outbreak,  and the related public health preparedness and response to the ongoing epidemic, as well as to assess its economic impact.

La Legge Finanziaria per il  2020 prevede la possibilità di destinare il 5 per mille delle tue imposte alla Fondazione ISI, in quanto Ente di Ricerca Scientifica.