At the end of April, I hosted a 3 hour seminar at Social Media Lab, a course held at the IULM university in Milan. I presented the basics of modern web technologies in the context of quantitive research, and then focused a bit on the topics of data mining, text mining and information extraction. You can find the slides attached to this post (they’re mostly in Italian, though).

It has been a very interesting experience and I met many interesting guys working in the area of social media, marketing and communication.

As a side note, I’d like to point out 2 very interesting links on the same topic of quantitative research:

• Google Public Data : adding search power to public data.
• Wolfram Alpha : if this search engine turns out to be only half as good as it seems in pulling out quantitative data from the web, it will be freakingly awesome.