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SUMMARY:Urban Science Days special:  Networks\, Visualization and Society
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DESCRIPTION:Dr. Mauro Martino  (Cognitive Visualization Lab \, Watson Gro
 up\, IBM)\nAbstract\nOver the past decade\, the development of digital net
 works and operations has produced an unprecedented wealth of information. 
 Handheld electronics\, location devices\, telecommunications networks\, an
 d a wide assortment of tags and sensors are constantly producing a rich st
 ream of data reflecting various aspects of our life.\nThis presentation di
 scusses the visualization design process of interactive tools for that ana
 lysis of human mobility. I present five main projects:\nIn the “Ocean of
  Information” project we propose a tool to explore human movement dynami
 cs in a metropolitan area in the United States. By analyzing individual ce
 ll phone traces\, we build a Human-City Interaction System for understandi
 ng urban mobility patterns at different user-controlled temporal and geogr
 aphical scales. Our tool is built to support the exploration and discovery
  of urban mobility patterns and the daily interactions of millions of peop
 le.\nThe “syn(c)ity” project illustrates the potential of a predictive
 \, in-car recommendation system based on the real-time profiling of both t
 he city and the driver. It connects analysis of the driver’s behavior an
 d personal preferences with geographical data from the current location to
  successfully identify the set of activities relevant\nto the driver’s i
 ntentions.\n“Obama | One people” is an unprecedented analysis of Barac
 k Obama’s Inauguration Day on January 20\, 2009. In partnership with AT&
 T Labs\, we created visualizations of mobile phone call activity that char
 acterize the inaugural crowd and address the questions: Who was in Washing
 ton\, D.C. for President Obama’s Inauguration Day? When did they arrive\
 , where did they go\, and how long did they stay?\n“VisPolitics” bring
 s together great political content and visualizations\; we create distinct
  genres of politic data visualizations that are at once comprehensive\, an
 alytical\, and graphically arresting.\n“Cactus Project - Controllability
  of Complex Networks”\; how to control a complex network with minimum nu
 mber of nodes? For a given directed network\, we calculate its maximum mat
 ching: a largest set of edges without common heads or tails. From it we id
 entify the minimum set of driver nodes to control. By injecting signals to
  those driver nodes\, we can fully control the network. There is a “cact
 us” structure underlying the controlled network\, which is the “skelet
 on” for controllability.Mauro Martino\nMauro Martino is the leader of th
 e Cognitive Visualization Lab (Watson Group\, IBM).\nMauro is an Italian a
 rtist\, designer\, inventor\, and educator who investigates the impact of 
 artificial intelligence on design.\nHe was formerly an Assistant Research 
 Professor at Northeastern University working with Albert-Laszlo Barabasi a
 t Center for Complex Network Research and with David Lazer and Fellows at 
 The Institute for Quantitative Social Science (IQSS) at Harvard University
 .\nPreviously\, he was a research affiliate with the SENSEable City Lab at
  Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge\, working on dat
 a visualization within the lab’s many projects and his related research 
 project\, Urban Interaction Design while earning a PhD in Design and Techn
 ologies at Politecnico di Milano\, Italy. His focus was to innovate the wa
 ys we visualize and explore of massive amount of human mobility and teleco
 mmunications data\, in partnerships with Airsage - AT&T - BT - Orange – 
 Sprint – TDC - Telecom Italia and in different nations Belgium\, Denmark
 \, England\, France\, Italy\, USA.\nHis projects have been shown at intern
 ational festivals including Ars Electronica\, TEDx Cambridge THRIVE\, and 
 Art Galleries including The Serpentine Gallery (London)\, GAFTA (San Franc
 isco). His work has been featured on the cover of Nature and PNAS\, as wel
 l as Nature Communication\, Nature Physics\, Popular Science\, The Economi
 st\, The Financial Times\, WIRED Magazine\, The Guardian\, BBC News\, MIT 
 News\, and Harvard News.
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