Program

Presentation instructions can be found at presentation instructions.

Opening

Thursday 12, 9:00 – 9:30. Room Salón de Actos

Keynote

Thursday 12, 9:30 – 10:30. Room Salón de Actos

Data Science development at scale
Norbert Wirth

Special Session 1. Big data for Central Banks

Thursday 12, 11:00 – 13:00. Room Salón de Actos
Chair: Juri Marcucci

Fears, Deposit Insurance Schemes, and the Reallocation of Deposits within the German Banking System
Falko Fecht, Stefan Thum, Patrick Weber

Macroeconomic Indicator Forecasting with Deep Neural Networks (PPT)
Thomas R. Cook, Aaron Smalter Hall

Financial Stability Governance and Communication
Juan M. Londono, Stijn Claessens, Ricardo Correa, Nathan Mislang

Spread the Word: International Spillovers from Central Bank Communication
Hanna Armelius, Christoph Bertsch, Isaiah Hull, Xin Zhang

The Catalonian Crises through Google Searches: A Regional Perspective
Concha Artola, Javier J. Pérez

The Sentiment Hidden in Italian Texts Through the Lens of a New Dictionary
Giuseppe Bruno, Juri Marcucci, Attilio Mattiocco, Marco Scarnò, Donatella Sforzini

Session 1a. Economic Indicators

Thursday 12, 14:15 – 16:15. Room Salón de Actos
Chair: José Vila

Validation of innovation indicators from companies’ websites
Mikael Heroux-Vaillancourt, Catherine Beaudry

Digital Vapor Trails: Using Website Behavior to Nowcast Entrepreneurial Activity
Timothy F. Slaper, Alyssa Bianco, Peter E. Lenz

Big Data Sources for Private Consumption Estimation: Evidence from Credit and Debit Card Records
María Rosalía Vicente, María Valdivieso-Anívarro

From Twitter to GDP: Estimating Economic Activity From Social Media (PPT)
Agustín Indaco

Mining for Signals of Future Consumer Expenditure on Twitter and Google Trends (PPT)
Viktor Pekar

Big data and official data: a cointegration analysis based on Google Trends and economic indicators
Andrea Marletta, Lisa Crosato, Paolo Mariani, Biancamaria Zavanella

Session 1b. Big data in Retail

Thursday 12, 14:15 – 16:15. Room Aula 2.2
Chair: Björn Asdecker

A Text-Based Framework for Dynamic Shopping-Cart Analysis
Wagner Kamakura

Grassroots Market Research on Grass: Predicting Cannabis Brand Performance Using Social Media Scraping (PPT)
Kathleen Stevenson, Jennifer Kregor, Bethany Gomez, J. Steven Kelly

Automated Detection of Customer Experience through Social Platforms
Juan Bustamante, Leonardo Kuffo, Edgar Izquierdo, Carmen Vaca

Measuring Retail Visual Cues Using Mobile Bio-metric Responses
Paul Dishman, Joshua Groves, Dale Jolley

Big data analytics in returns management – Are complex techniques necessary to forecast consumer returns properly?
Björn Asdecker, David Karl

Historical query data as business intelligence tool on an internationalization contex
Carlota Lorenzo-Romero, Juan M. Carro-Rodríguez, Miguel-Ángel Gómez-Borja

Poster Session

Thursday 12, 16:15 – 17:00. Faculty Hall

Women in leadership position: Do family-friendly organizational arrangements change anything?
Irina Hondralis

Digital transformation in manufacturing within Industry 4.0
Andrea Sujova, Ondrej Remeň

Public Goods, Corporate Nudging, and Internet Governance: The HTTP/2 Standardization Process
Sylvia Elizabeth Peacock

Forms of online political participation and hybrid styles. The response of a sample of Italians to a web survey
Maria Paola Faggiano, Lorenzo Barbanera, Ernesto Dario Calò, Melissa Mongiardo

Antecedents and consequences of product–service system evaluations in the sharing economy
Yu-Hsien Lin

Best collaboration practices for productizing Data Science
Schirin Rikhtehgar

Individual investor’s limited attention and IPO performance
Bing Zhang

Automatic design of Customized Learning Path: the case of Industry 4.0
Filippo Chiarello, Simona Pira, Silvia Fareri, Andrea Bonaccorsi, Gualtiero Fantoni

Big Data Applications for Sustainable Construction
Paola Reyes

Session 2a. Data Management

Thursday 12, 17:00 – 18:20. Room Salón de Actos
Chair: Caterina Liberati

Towards an Automated Semantic Data-driven Decision Making Employing Human Brain
Anna Fensel

Blockchain-backed analytics. Adding blockchain-based quality gates to data science projects.
Markus Herrmann, Jörg Petzold, Vivek Bombatkar

Access and analysis of ISTAC data through the use of R and Shiny
Christian González-Martel, José M. Cazorla-Artiles, Carlos J. Pérez-González

Fishing for Errors in an Ocean Rather than a Pond
John Wilson, Dov Te’Eni

Session 2b. Finance

Thursday 12, 17:00 – 18:20. Room Aula 2.2
Chair: Concha Artola

Whatever it takes’ to change beliefs: Evidence from Twitter
Rémi Vivès, Michael Stiefel

A combination of multi-period training data and ensemble methods to improve churn classification of housing loan customers
Tomi Seppälä, Le Thuy

An Unconventional Example of Big Data: BIST-100 Banking Sub-Index of Turkey
Sadullah Çelik, Elif Işbilen

Mining Big Data in statistical systems of the monetary financial institutions (MFIs) (PPT)
Afshin Ashofteh

Special Session 2. Using Big Data in Official Statistics

Friday 13, 9:00 – 10:30. Room Salón de Actos
Chair: Gian Luigi Mazzi

X11-like Seasonal Adjustment of Daily Data (PPT)
Dominique Ladiray, Gian Luigi Mazzi

Empirical examples of using Big Internet Data for Macroeconomic Nowcasting (PPT)
George Kapetanios, Massimiliano Marcellino, Fotis Papailias

Using big data at Istat: forecasting consumption
Fabio Bacchini, Roberto Iannaccone, Davide Zurlo

Using big data in official statistics: why, when, how, what for? (PPT)
Gian Luigi Mazzi

Session 3a. Search Data

Friday 13, 11:00 – 12:30. Room Salón de Actos
Chair: Pilar Rey del Castillo

Has Robert Parker lost his hegemony as a prescriptor in the wine World? A preliminar inquiry through Twitter (PPT)
Cristina I. Font-Julian, Raúl Compés-López, Enrique Orduna-Malea

Measuring Technology Platforms impact with search data and web scraping
Desamparados Blazquez, Josep Domenech, José María García-Álvarez-Coque

Algorithmic Trading Systems Based on Google Trends (PPT)
Raúl Gómez Martínez, Camilo Prado Román, María Del Carmen De La Orden De La Cruz

Do People Pay More Attention to Earthquakes in Western Countries? (PPT)
Hanna Habibi, Jan Feld

Session 3b. Digital Transformation

Friday 13, 11:00 – 12:30. Room Aula 2.2
Chair: Angelica Maria Maineri

Big Data and Data Driven Marketing in Brazil (PPT)
Vítor Finger, Valesca Reichelt, João Capelli

Limits and virtues of a web survey on political participation and voting intentions. Reflections on a mixed-method search path (PPT)
Maria Paola Faggiano

Italian general election 2018: digital campaign strategies. Three case studies: Movimento 5 Stelle, PD and Lega (PPT)
Maria Paola Faggiano, Ernesto Dario Calò, Raffaella Gallo, Melissa Mongiardo

Gender discrimination in algorithmic decision-making (PPT)
Galina Andreeva, Anna Matuszyk

The educational divide in e-privacy skills in Europe
Angelica Maria Maineri, Peter Achterberg, Ruud Luijkx

Industry Demo

Friday 13, 12:30 – 13:00. Room Salón de Actos

BigML Demo
Amir Tabakovic

Session 4a. Mobility and Network Models

Friday 13, 14:15 – 16:15. Room Salón de Actos
Chair: Sergio L. Toral

Inferring Social-Demographics of Travellers based on Smart Card Data
Yang Zhang, Tao Cheng

Estimating traffic disruption patterns with volunteer geographic information (PPT)
Jonathan Bright, Chico Camargo, Scott Hale, Graham Mcneill, Sridhar Raman

Transport-Health Equity Outcomes from mobile phone location data – a case study
Susan Grant-Muller, Frances Hodgson, Gillian Harrison, Nick Malleson, Tom Redfern

Identification of helpful and not helpful online reviews within an eWOM community using text-mining techniques
Sergio L. Toral, Maria Olmedilla, Rocio Martinez-Torres

Evolution and scientific visualization of Machine learning field (PPT)
Rosa María Río-Belver, Gaizka Garechana, Iñaki Bildosola, Enara Zarrabeitia

Google matrix analysis of worldwide football mercato
José Lages, Justin Loye, Célestin Coquidé, Guillaume Rollin

Session 4b. Social Networks and Text Mining

Friday 13, 14:15 – 16:15. Room Aula 2.2
Chair: Elena Siletti

How to sort out uncategorisable documents for
interpretive social science? On limits of currently employed text mining
techniques

Axel Philipps

What should a researcher first read? A bi-relational
citation networks model for strategical heuristic reading and scientific
discovery
(PPT)
Cesar Moreno Pascual, Carlos Martinez De Ibarreta Zorita

Technical Sentiment Analysis: Measuring Advantages and Drawbacks of New Products Using Social Media (PPT)
Filippo Chiarello, Andrea Bonaccorsi, Gualtiero Fantoni, Giacomo Ossola, Andrea Cimino

Facebook, digital campaign and Italian general election 2018. A focus on the disintermediation process activated by the web (PPT)
Maria Paola Faggiano, Ernesto Dario Calò, Raffaella Gallo, Melissa Mongiardo

A proposal to deal with sampling bias in social network big data
Elena Siletti, Stefano Maria Iacus, Giuseppe Porro, Silvia Salini

Relevance as an enhancer of votes on Twitter
Jorge Arroba Rimassa, Fernando Llopis, Rafael Munoz Guillena