The Fractal Dimension of Music: Geography, Popularity and Sentiment Analysis

Nowadays there is a growing standardization of musical contents. Our finding comes out from a cross-service multi-level dataset analysis where we study how geography affects the music production. The investigation presented in this paper highlights the existence of a “fractal” musical structure that relates the technical characteristics of the music produced at regional, national and world level. Moreover, a similar structure emerges also when we analyze the musicians’ popularity and the pola...

Information diffusion in complex networks: The active/passive conundrum

Ideas, information, viruses: all of them, with their mechanisms, can spread over the complex social tissues described by our interpersonal relations. Classical spreading models can agnostically from the object of which they simulate the diffusion, thus considering spreading of virus, ideas and innovations alike. Indeed, such simplification makes easier to define a standard set of tools that can be applied to heterogeneous contexts; however, it can also lead to biased, partial, simulation outc...

Sul viaggio di Prospero Fontana in Francia. Un primo documento e qualche riflessione

There's a Path for Everyone: A Data-Driven Personal Model Reproducing Mobility Agendas

The avalanche of mobility data like GPS and GSM daily produced by each user through mobile devices enables personalized mobility-services improving everyday life. The base for these mobility-services lies in the predictability of human behavior. In this paper we propose an approach for reproducing the user's personal mobility agenda that is able to predict the user's positions for the whole day. We reproduce the agenda by exploiting a data-driven personal mobility model able to capture and su...