This course is an introduction to data collection, data preparation & transformation and data analysis. It contains the essential concepts for a researcher in order to...

Academic migration is the change of host institution by a researcher, typically aimed at achieving a stronger research profile. Scientific features such as the number of...

How can big data help to understand the migration phenomenon? In this paper, we try to answer this question through an analysis of various phases of migration, comparing...

Urbanization is a great challenge for modern societies, promising better access to economic opportunities, but widening socioeconomic inequalities. Accurately tracking this...

Visual analytics is a research discipline that is based on acknowledging the power and the necessity of the human vision, understanding, and reasoning in data analysis and...

In various domains, there are abundant streams or sequences of multi-item data of various kinds, e.g. streams of news and social media texts, sequences of genes and sports...

Online social networks convey rich information about geospatial facets of reality. However in most cases, geographic information is not explicit and structured, thus...

In our data world, a host of not necessarily trusted controllers gather data on individual subjects. To preserve her privacy and, more generally, her informational...

Differential privacy (DP) is a neat privacy definition that can co-exist with certain well-defined data uses in the context of interactive queries. However, DP is neither a...

The exponential increase in the availability of large-scale mobility data has fueled the vision of smart cities that will transform our lives. The truth is that we have just...

Data classification, i.e., organising data items in groups (classes), is a general technique widely used in data visualisation and cartography, in particular, for creation of...

4th SoBigData++ Awareness Panel Webinar Programme Decentralized anonymization of mobility data Speaker: Josep Domingo-Ferrer (Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Catalonia)...

The seminar aims at providing a preliminary definition of the state-of-the-art upon automatic methods for systematized urban green data collection. The talk focuses on the...

These tutorials show how to use the already implemented libraries for the anonymization and antidiscrimination of data sets: - Anonymization library:...

Modelling human mobility is crucial in several scientific areas, from urban planning to epidemic modeling, traffic forecasting, and what-if analysis. On the one hand, existing...