DATA MINING, STATISTICA SOCIALE ED INFORMATIZZAZIONE DEI DATI

9 CFU - 1° Semester

Teaching Staff

ROSARIO GIUSEPPE D'AGATA - Module INDICATOR SOURCES. TERRITORIAL DATA ANALYSIS. - SECS-S/05 - 6 CFU
GIOVANNI GIUFFRIDA - Module Introduction to Database Management Systems - INF/01 - 3 CFU

Course Structure

INDICATOR SOURCES. TERRITORIAL DATA ANALYSIS.
The course deals with the main issues dealing with a survey. Topics are treated following the logical path of the differents steps of the research analysis: problem identification, data collection, elaboration, data analysis and outcomes evaluation.
Introduction to Database Management Systems
Class lectures and some exercise will be carried out together. Some speakers are going to be invited to discuss on advanced topics.

Detailed Course Content

INDICATOR SOURCES. TERRITORIAL DATA ANALYSIS.
Sources of statistical information; survey models for the collection of informations from institutional sources; informational statistical systems; integrational procedures among data-bases; data tranformations; typic classification of rates, ratios, index numbers, indicators, construction techniques and complex inidicators.
Introduction to Database Management Systems
Overview and introduction to data base management systems. Our data driven society today requires a proper approach to data management for social scientists. Our digital world today produces a huge amount of very detailed and large data logs that represent a new dimension for data scientists.

Textbook Information

INDICATOR SOURCES. TERRITORIAL DATA ANALYSIS.
STAT (2011), Navigando tra le fonti demografiche e sociali, ISTAT, Roma,
http://www3.istat.it/dati/catalogo/20100325_01/Navigando_tra_le_fonti_demografiche_sociali.pdf
Bonarini F. (2006), Guida alle fonti statistiche socio-demografiche, CLEUP, Padova, pp. 1-142; 231-308.
Cavaleri P. e Venturini F. (a cura di) (2004), Documenti e dati pubblici sul web. Guida all'informazione di fonte pubblica in rete, Il Mulino, Bologna.
D. F. Iezzi (2009), Statistica per le Scienze Sociali, Carocci, Roma (Cap. 10 e 11).
OECD (2008), Handbook on Constructing Composite Indicators. Methodology and user guide.,
www.oecd.org/publishing.
Introduction to Database Management Systems
1. Slides provided
2. Albano-Ghelli-Orsini, Basi di Dati Relazionali e a Oggetti, Zanichelli, 1997
3. Ullman, Basi di Dati e Basi di Conoscenza
4. Big data. Una rivoluzione che trasformerà il nostro modo di vivere e già minaccia la nostra libertà. Viktor Mayer-Schönberger, Kenneth N. Cukier e R. Merlini
5. Machine Learning: The Art and Science of Algorithms That Make Sense of Data, Peter Flach, Cambridge University Press
6. Basi di Dati,Modelli e linguaggi di interrogazione, Atzeni,Ceri,Paraboschi,Torlone, terza edizione, McGraw-Hill 2002

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