Idea League – Group work


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  • The aim of the project work is to develop a research proposal starting from your research interests (the students will be assigned to groups, more information will follow).

–Freedom in the topic, but

–It must be set in a complex system (Paolo Trucco’s Lesson)

–Using Big Data

  • The final output will be presented at the end of the week (10 minutes for each group)
  • Steps in the project work:
  1. Define a research question and your reference decision maker(s)
  2. Clarify which is your reference complex system (and explain why it is a complex system)
  3. Identify the research methodology (theoretical underpinning; phases; methods)
  4. Identify your Big Data and how and why they add value to your research methodology
  5. Analyze data quality issues
  6. Clearly state the value you create for decision maker(s)