15MP2P Conference

The 15M movement is part of a wave of protests that began in 2011 which generated a new global political cycle. This global wave is characterized by the occupation of the urban space and the strategic use of digital communication networks, which express a new self-organized collective behavior and, also, a new paradigm of political … More 15MP2P Conference

15Mdata Hackaton

In the last weekend, the first 15Mdata Hackathon was held at the Internet Interdisciplinary Institute (theoretical session on Friday) and Ateneu Candela (practical session on Saturday). The event on Friday began with a presentation of our research group (datAnalysis15m) by Arnau Monterde and Javier Toret. Arnau Monterde detailed the following goals for the present year: To establish a … More 15Mdata Hackaton

Data Visualization: Mobile World Congress 2013

The Mobile World Congress (MWC2013) has generated nearly 100,000 tweets per day, making it to a Twitter trending topic in Spain between February 25, 10am and 26 February 7pm. In Barcelona Media Research Foundation (member of Tecnio network) we have analyzed tweets containing ‘MWC’, ‘MWC13’ and/or ‘Mobile World’. The animated map shows the impact of … More Data Visualization: Mobile World Congress 2013

Review of 2012

Now when 2013 starts, I finish my first full calendar year as a researcher at Barcelona Media. Consequently, I think it is an ideal moment to review the research conducted in 2012. This year has been strongly marked by the study of the communication dynamics on Twitter of the main political parties in the Spanish … More Review of 2012

International Conference on Web Intelligence, Mining and Semantics WIMS’11

Last week, the preliminary schedule of “The International Conference on Web Intelligence, Mining and Semantics” (WIMS’11) was published . The congress will held numerous conferences, workshops and tutorials boarding a wide range of topics related to information retrieval, semantic processing and text mining processes. In the Session “Social Network Analysis” I will have the opportunity … More International Conference on Web Intelligence, Mining and Semantics WIMS’11