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Born in Piombino (LI) January 21 1958. Married, with three children. Graduated July 12 1982 in Forestry Sciences at the faculty of Agriculture, Florence. Freelance Wood Technologist, since 1982 works as consultant in the fields of the industrial uses of wood, of R&D of wood-based products, and of the conservation of wooden artworks and structures belonging to the Cultural Heritage. Over 70 publications, including reference books, articles and presentations at national and international conferences. 

Born in Pagani (Sa) on 18.07.1989. He obtained a Master's Degree in Business Administration, and, during his studies, he had the chance to approach the world of Big Data at the Italian Chamber of Commerce in Bulgaria where, during an internship program, he was involved in many quantitative analysis. After a final thesis in Data Mining, he decided to enroll in this Master. The aim is to enrich the CV of technical skills both in the use of application software, and in the development of metodologies for summarize knowledge and information for decision making in public and private companies.

I am a PhD student in Political Science at University of Pisa. My research project focuses on identifying new opinion leaders in social media by means of Social Network Analysis. As a hybrid figure halfway between a computer scientist and a political scientist, I’ve often tried to combine computer and social science. Indeed, my degree thesis deals with the frame evolution of a political issue among media (Twitter, television and newspapers) that I analysed quantitatively with R software. As a member of the MediaLab of the Department of Political Science, I analysed a local electoral campaign in social media in collaboration with il Tirreno (local newspaper) and the National Research Council of Pisa (#Toscana15 project). I have focused on Social Network Analysis since I discovered that nodes and edges in a graph could represent human relationships.

In 2014 Marco obtained his Master’s degree in Political Sciences and Decisional Processes at the University of Florence with a thesis regarding a quantitative analysis about the eco-efficiency of the italian Regions. Since the time of university’s period he started doing some experiences in the journalism field, dedicating himself to the local chronicle, where he also started working as publisher dealing with the optimization web issues and social media management. His main interests include: local development policies and digital strategies.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/marco-lorenzetti-877bb860

Born at Montevarchi (AR) on 16/07/1986. He obtained a Master's Degree in Philosophical Sciences in 2014 at the University of Florence. Always passionate about technology and computers, he decided to enroll in the Big Data Master to develop his curriculum towards a quantitative direction and to gain strong practical skills in the Data Science field. The topics which he developed more through the Master are the Textual Analysis on various sources, the acquisition (API, Web Crawling) and processing of Datasets (Hadoop/Spark) and the use of Python.

http://it.linkedin.com/in/samueleborgheresi

Works as a researcher/consultant for market research and online data collection companies. Based in London from 2011 to 2014. Freelance producer, director and screenwriter with seven years of experience producing web video content. He won the Audience Favorite Award at the 2012 General Electric - Focus Forward Competition with a short documentary about the bionic hand developed by Scuola Sant’Anna of Pisa. MA in Philosophy (University of Pisa). MA thesis on logic of natural language. He has been an Erasmus student at Johannes Gutenberg Universitaet of Mainz (Germany) during the A.A. 2003/2004. He can speak and read fluently in english, has an intermediate knowledge of french and a basic knowledge of german.

Born in Bassano del Grappa (Vi) on 15.02.1985. After the Master’s degree in Sociology (economic and labor sociology, sociology of organizations) at the University of Padua, obtained with honors in 2010, he was involved in qualitative and quantitative research, collaborating with different organizations. From 2013 he is a researcher at the Institute for Regional Development and Location Management of the European Academy of Bolzano (EURAC), where he mainly deals with data collection and analysis in the field of mobility and tourism. http://it.linkedin.com/in/rubenbassani