Data Science and Social Research II: Methods, Technologies and Applications

✍ Scribed by Paolo Mariani, Mariangela Zenga

• Publisher: Springer International Publishing;Springer
• Year: 2021
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 391
• Series: Studies in Classification, Data Analysis, and Knowledge Organization
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The peer-reviewed contributions gathered in this book address methods, software and applications of statistics and data science in the social sciences. The data revolution in social science research has not only produced new business models, but has also provided policymakers with better decision-making support tools. In this volume, statisticians, computer scientists and experts on social research discuss the opportunities and challenges of the social data revolution in order to pave the way for addressing new research problems. The respective contributions focus on complex social systems and current methodological advances in extracting social knowledge from large data sets, as well as modern social research on human behavior and society using large data sets. Moreover, they analyze integrated systems designed to take advantage of new social data sources, and discuss quality-related issues. The papers were originally presented at the 2nd International Conference on Data Science and Social Research, held in Milan, Italy, on February 4-5, 2019.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter ....Pages i-ix
Digital Methods and the Evolution of the Epistemology of Social Sciences (Enrica Amaturo, Biagio Aragona)....Pages 1-8
Restricted Cumulative Correspondence Analysis (Pietro Amenta, Antonello D’Ambra, Luigi D’Ambra)....Pages 9-19
Determining the Importance of Hotel Services by Using Transitivity Thresholds (Pietro Amenta, Antonio Lucadamo, Gabriella Marcarelli)....Pages 21-28
Staging Cancer Through Text Mining of Pathology Records (Pietro Belloni, Giovanna Boccuzzo, Stefano Guzzinati, Irene Italiano, Carlo R. Rossi, Massimo Rugge et al.)....Pages 29-46
Predicting the Risk of Gambling Activities in Adolescence: A Case Study (Laura Benedan, Gianna Serafina Monti)....Pages 47-57
Municipal Managers in Italy: Skills, Training Requirements and Related Critical Aspects (Mario Bolzan, Giovanna Boccuzzo, Marco Marozzi)....Pages 59-78
Attitudes Towards Immigrant Inclusion: A Look at the Spatial Disparities Across European Countries (Riccardo Borgoni, Antonella Carcagnì, Alessandra Michelangeli, Federica Zaccagnini)....Pages 79-90
A Bibliometric Study of the Global Research Activity in Sustainability and Its Dimensions (Rosanna Cataldo, Maria Gabriella Grassia, Carlo Natale Lauro, Marina Marino, Viktoriia Voytsekhovska)....Pages 91-102
Big Data Marketing: A Strategic Alliance (Federica Codignola)....Pages 103-113
Data Processing in a Healthcare National System (Manlio d’Agostino Panebianco, Anna Capoluongo)....Pages 115-130
Smart Tourism System in Calabria (Annarita De Maio, Daniele Ferone, Elisabetta Fersini, Enza Messina, Francesco Santoro, Antonio Violi)....Pages 131-144
Spatial Localization of Visitors Mobile Phones in a Sardinian Destinations’ Network (Anna Maria Fiori, Ilaria Foroni)....Pages 145-155
The Role of Open Data in Healthcare Research (Carlotta Galeone, Rossella Bonzi, Paolo Mariani)....Pages 157-174
Social Epidemiology: The Challenges and Opportunities of Worldwide Data Consortia (Carlotta Galeone, Rossella Bonzi, Federica Turati, Claudio Pelucchi, Matteo Rota, Carlo La Vecchia)....Pages 175-185
Identification of Opinion Makers on Twitter (Svitlana Galeshchuk, Ju Qiu)....Pages 187-198
Modelling Human Intelligence Using Mixed Model Approach (Thanigaivasan Gokul, Mamandur Rangaswamy Srinivasan, Michele Gallo)....Pages 199-217
An Analysis of the Impact of Requirements on Wages Within Sectors of the Tourism Industry (Paolo Mariani, Andrea Marletta, Lucio Masserini, Mariangela Zenga)....Pages 219-233
Big Data and Economic Analysis: The Challenge of a Harmonized Database (Caterina Marini, Vittorio Nicolardi)....Pages 235-246
ROC Curve in GAMLSS as Prediction Tool for Big Data (Andrea Marletta)....Pages 247-257
Social Media in Disasters. Big Data Issues in Public Communication Field (Francesco Marrazzo, Gabriella Punziano)....Pages 259-268
Divorce in Italy: A Textual Analysis of Cassation Judgment (Rosanna Cataldo, Maria Gabriella Grassia, Marina Marino, Rocco Mazza, Vincenzo Pastena, Emma Zavarrone)....Pages 269-280
A Bayesian Mixture Model for Ecotoxicological Risk Assessment (Sonia Migliorati, Gianna Serafina Monti)....Pages 281-291
Virtual Encounter Simulations: A New Methodology for Generating Conflict Data (Georg P. Mueller)....Pages 293-303
Is Public Service Motivation–Performance Relationship Mediated by Other Factors? (Raffaela Palma, Anna Crisci, Luigi D’Ambra)....Pages 305-312
A Classification Algorithm to Recognize Fake News Websites (Giuseppe Pernagallo, Benedetto Torrisi, Davide Bennato)....Pages 313-329
A Comparative Analysis of the University Student Mobility Flows Among European Countries (Marialuisa Restaino, Ilaria Primerano, Maria Prosperina Vitale)....Pages 331-341
A Preference Index Design for Big Data (Venera Tomaselli, Giulio Giacomo Cantone)....Pages 343-351
Construction of an Immigrant Integration Composite Indicator through the Partial Least Squares Structural Equation Model K-Means (Venera Tomaselli, Mario Fordellone, Maurizio Vichi)....Pages 353-366
Facebook Debate on Sea Watch 3 Case: Detecting Offensive Language Through Automatic Topic Mining Techniques (Alice Tontodimamma, Emiliano del Gobbo, Vanessa Russo, Annalina Sarra, Lara Fontanella)....Pages 367-378
Martini’s Index and Total Factor Productivity Calculation (Biancamaria Zavanella, Daniele Pirotta)....Pages 379-392
Back Matter ....Pages 393-394

✦ Subjects

Statistics; Statistics for Social Science, Behavorial Science, Education, Public Policy, and Law; Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery; Social Sciences, general; Statistics and Computing/Statistics Programs; Statistics, general