Economia

Valentina graduated cum laude in Design of Sustainable Tourism System at the University of Florence. She is very interested and fascinated by the world of the web and social networks and their relationship with tourism issues. Valentina has developed her thesis entitled "Web 2.0 and development of the Tuscany brand " that analyses the binomial focusing on competitiveness, sustainability, innovation and tourism. She currently is researcher in the field of tourism, at the Institute of Biometeorology at the National Council in Florence. Valentina embarked on the path of the Master in Big Data Analytics and Social Mining to deepen the knowledge and try to understand the several facets of a complex phenomenon as tourism.

Born in province of Vicenza on the 04/25/1988. He moved to Padova, where he graduated in in Business and Administration (bachelor degree), then to Venice where he obtained the master degree in Economics and Finance with the top grade and a dissertation about crowdfunding in Italy. During that period, he had the opportunity to spend an academic year at ICMA Center in Berkshire (UK). After the studies, he joined a consultancy firm operating on company’s evaluation, market analysis and business planning. During that time, he worked also with start-ups and this has increased his interest on innovation. He discovered the phenomenon of big data and he started to be interested in it, especially for what regards production activities and business prevision and planning.

Born in Palermo in 1987, she joined the faculty of economics at the University of Palermo for the three-year degree in Economics and Finance. In 2016 she was admitted to the Master of Science in Economics at University of Pisa, where she graduated in 2016 (110/110). She likes use computational software and as a statistical enthusiast she wants to pursue a career in data analytics for economic research purposes.

A native of Rome, I completed my master's degree in Economics (Quantitative Finance) in 2016, at University of Rome “Tor Vergata". My graduate thesis focused on gap risk measure for a portfolio covered by a CPPI strategy. After graduating, I worked as a business consultant for a software house for a year, but I understood that, given my inclination for IT and the increasing importance big data have in our world, I wanted to pursue a career in data science. This led me to the University of Pisa's Big Data Analytics course, in order to acquire necessary skills and knowledge in the data analysis field, something I consider as a natural extension of my past quantitative studies.

From Crotone to Pisa, my path touched different cities where I had the opportunity to make different experiences, all connected by the passion for marketing research and data analysis. I firstly graduated in Economics & Management in Parma and moved to Turin to attend a first level master in Management. I obtained a Master Degree in Marketing Management with a thesis on brand equity measurement models and moved right away to Malta, where I worked as financial consultant for about one year. Once back to Italy, I had an experience working in Marketing and Business Planning office for Cariparma, in La Spezia. I decided to attend this Master in Big Data to integrate my knowledge of analysis software as SPSS and R with data mining and machine learning techniques as well as python and SQL programming languages.

Born in Pisa on December 25, 1989. Graduated with honors in Business Administration with a major in Accounting at the University of Pisa in 2015. Worked in auditing for one of the Big Four firms. Passionate about entrepreneurship, marketing and the digital world, I’ve been trying to make these topics merge together in my continuous learning experience, beginning with a MOOC in Digital Marketing offered by the University of Illinois up to the Master in Big Data Analytics in which I’m currently enrolled.
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