Giulio Dalla Riva presents to the lab

“Prolegomena to Antifascist Data Science: theory, praxis, but mostly pizza.”

In this talk Giulio is going to try and sketch how it may be possible to do data science in a way that is rooted in antifascist thinking and practice. He will try to do that by reflecting upon two intense years of research and activism around the online spreading of toxic ideologies. Both the research and activism are situated in Ōtautahi Christchurch, yet he has personal roots in the mountains of Veneto, in Italy, and date from long before. The sketch will be incomplete, idiosyncratic, and overall unsatisfying. He will offer more questions than answers. He will ask for help more than once.

Data scientist Giulio Dalla Riva explores and tries to make sense of what happens in complex, dynamical networks. He is interested in ecological networks and the evolutionary processes that modify them in time; in particular he develops mathematical and statistical tools to study the relationship between ecological biodiversity and evolutionary diversity.

He is also interested in Social Networks, especially online. He tries to understand what makes them work in the way they work.