If a research alliance is all about creating new links and reinforcing existing ones, the seminar held last week by Márton Karsai at Milan’s Bocconi University is the evidence that CIVICA Research is working. 

A data scientist at the Central European University, Professor Karsai is a longtime contact of epidemiologist Alessia Melegaro, who is in charge of the CIVICA Research data science stream a Bocconi. Karsai is among the scholars working on EmoMap - Mapping Emotions during COVID-19 pandemic using Twitter data, a CIVICA Research project carried out by Bocconi University, Hertie School, and Central European University. The project is aimed at analyzing millions of tweets collected during the pandemic in order to investigate the formation and evolution of emotions throughout the pandemic.

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