Analisi di network su Github: il caso Rust

Gabriele LamiCo-founder @ Elif Lab : www.eliflab.com Una mia attività ricorrente è la ricerca di progetti interessanti su GitHub: sono spesso piacevolmente sorpreso nel trovare progetti o progettini di notevole utilità (o affascinanti, ma magari inutili). Molto spesso le scoperte di questi progetti sono legate al caso e, in parecchie occasioni, è virtualmente impossibile trovarne alcuni semplicemente navigando in […]

Tutti contro, ma le vittime?

La recente, incresciosa, vicenda della Ferrari posteggiata nel centro di Milano sul parcheggio per disabili e seguente lite, con aggressione verbale da parte del proprietario dell’auto nei confronti del padre del ragazzo disabile ha riempito per giorni le pagine dei giornali. Un fatto di cronaca che ormai siamo, purtroppo, abituati a leggere troppo spesso.Uno spunto però […]

Sanremo 2017: who’s winning on Wikipedia Italia?

Like every year, the Sanremo Music Festival is attracting the attention of Italian media.This 2017 edition has received an audience share of almost 50% and could be interesting to see how this result reflects on social media. We analyze here who, among the singers, is receiving during the week the highest number of views on his/her Wikipedia Italia page.We […]

Self driving: scratching the surface of the topics

The “self driving” issue is becoming central in the news mainstream and it will probably re-shape the vehicle market in the next few years. When we think about “self driving” and its technical challenges it is always difficult to be up-to-date on the emerging ideas and concepts. It’s easy to accept the wrong inference that, […]

The ALDE booming on Wikipedia Italia

Last Sunday, Beppe Grillo, the leader of the Italian 5 Star Movement started an “online referendum” on his blog, asking the supporters whether or not the Movement had to leave the eurosceptic EFDD group in the European Parliament and join the liberal one, the Alliance of Liberal and Democrats for Europe, led by Guy Verhofstadt.According to Grillo, 78.5% of the Movement’s supporters […]

What were the Italians thinking about on the voting day: Wikipedia data says pencils and Heather Parisi

After having acknowledged the results of the Italian Constitutional referendum during the night of December 4th, many European pundits described the vote as a vote against Europe.Just for fun (yes, we are weird… for more weirdness visit our website http://www.eliflab.com) we checked if something related to Europe could be traceable analyzing the most viewed pages on Wikipedia Italia from the 21st of […]

Quale futuro per i partiti politici italiani? Comparazione tra i comportamenti di voto nel Parlamento italiano e quello europeo

Questo studio è il risultato di una ricerca comune di Elif Lab e VoteWatch Europe. In attesa dell’imminente voto sul referendum costituzionale, gli esperti stanno cercando di prevedere quali potrebbero essere gli sviluppi politici in caso di una vittoria del “no” e, quindi, di una sconfitta del Primo Ministro, Matteo Renzi. In questa analisi, ci siamo soffermati sulle […]

What future for Italian political parties? Comparison of voting behaviour in the European and Italian Parliament

This study has been undertaken jointly by Elif Lab and VoteWatch Europe. The Italian referendum on Constitutional reform is likely to reshape the politics of one EU’s biggest countries, whichever way the result goes. This will also have a substantial impact on Europe as a whole. In the run-up to the Italian constitutional referendum, political observers are […]

Completing the picture: EU media outlets, journalists and politicians.

During the last weeks we saw all the different communities generated analyzing the MEPs’ connections on Twitter.You can find our old posts HERE. If you still don’t know who we are, check our corporate website Elif Lab and our project on the European institutions ThinkingAboutEU. Now it’s time for some conclusions.In order to do so, we will briefly expose some […]

Exploring MEPs’ connections on Twitter. Episode 4: Austria, Germany and UK.

This will be the last episode where we describe single communities.In the next one we will try to draw some conclusions. If you feel to, send us your feedback and we will discuss it in the next post. If you are interested in seeing some of the other things we are working on, check our […]