SUBJECT: Stalking yourself

Smart-phones allow people to do many activities, included know where they are thanks to their GPS antenna. There are many apps for smart phones that track our movements and most of these have been developed to check outdoor fitness activities.

However, the stored data will be also useful to make statistic researches as well as to study people movements. In this tutorial we will try to process these GPS data in order to understand how many time the “test subject” (let’s call him Matteo) has passed in a specific area of Barcelona.

ASSIGNMENT#2 – SILVERIO

SUBJECT: Italian diaspora

In nearly a century between 1876 and 1970, an estimated 25 million Italians left the country in search of work and of those, 12 million left for destinations outside Europe. The Italian National Institute of Statistics (ISTAT – www.istat.it/en/), has a very complete database that can be consulted on-line.

Therefore for this first assignment I analysed the Italian emigration flow during the last Century. Eight different counties have been considered and the purpose of this analysis is correlate the Italian diaspora to specific historical or geopolitical situations.

ASSIGNMENT#1 – SILVERIO