Federico Botta
@fedebotta.bsky.social
Senior lecturer in data science at Exeter Computer Science. Fellow at Alan Turing Institute. Works on computational social science, spatial data science, urban analytics, data for policy.
Nice to see our article being featured by @pnasnexus.org - we look forward to expanding on this research perspective in future projects, get in touch if you want to be involved!
PNAS Nexus@pnasnexus.org · 2mo agoWhat do a thriving coral reef and a bustling city neighborhood have in common? A method inspired by ecology measures urban vibrancy via diversity in types of activities, including working, exercising, shopping, dining, playing, and strolling. In PNAS Nexus: https://ow.ly/FSvP50Z4k4V
What makes a city feel alive? A new study in 𝘗𝘕𝘈𝘚 𝘕𝘦𝘹𝘶𝘴, with contributions from @riccardodiclemente.com, rethinks urban vibrancy through ecology and retail science. The key idea: cities thrive through activity diversity, much like ecosystems thrive through biodiversity. tinyurl.com/uuc3cja3
Chapter 12: @fedebotta.bsky.social from @exetercompsci.bsky.social on online images and computational social science. A fascinating chapter on how images shared online can help us study politics, misinformation, culture, & collective behaviour and why visual data deserves a much bigger place in CSS.
Taha Yasseri@tahayasseri.bsky.social · 3mo agoChapter 11: Luis-Daniel Ibáñez, Johanna Walker & @elenasimperl.bsky.social on open data in computational social science. Why open data is not just a technical issue, but also a question of sustainability, impact, politics, and bias. Useful data is more than available data. @aiatkings.bsky.social
Great to see this blog post on our Community Connections project! It's always a fantastic opportunity to discuss your research with people and learn more about what people actually care about and what matters to them sites.exeter.ac.uk/per/2026/02/...
Community Connections: Informing Urban Liveability Research
Dr Federico Botta shares insights from his team's collaboration with Exeter Science Centre, in which both parties sought to better understand Exeter residents’ views on urban liveability, supported by...
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If you're interested in using networks to study urban inequalities, please consider sending your work to this special collection! link.springer.com/collections/... @ronaldomenezes.bsky.social @marianagmmacedo.bsky.social
Check out Zihao's new paper below! We have a close look at geographical inequalities in timetabled journeys by bus in England, and uncover how travel time variability affects different areas of England. Lots more to come on this!
Dillon Eastoe@dillon-eastoe.bsky.social · last yr.Excited to share this new paper in JPhys Complexity looking at geographical inequalities in access to UK healthcare by @fedebotta.bsky.social @zihaochen.bsky.social iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...
More pictures from the @databeersexe.bsky.social. Thanks @fedebotta.bsky.social for all the work. I basically just had to show up!
Really happy to be organising this with @fedebotta.bsky.social! Come and join us in Exeter!
Exeter Data Beers@databeersexe.bsky.social · last yr.We are all set for May 22nd. Join us for a celebration of data science and beer! We thank Cuckoo Taproom in Exeter and also @lostandgrounded.bsky.social for their sponsorship! #DataBeers @exeter.ac.uk @fedebotta.bsky.social #Exeter @exetercompsci.bsky.social www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/databeers-...
We are all set for May 22nd. Join us for a celebration of data science and beer! We thank Cuckoo Taproom in Exeter and also @lostandgrounded.bsky.social for their sponsorship! #DataBeers @exeter.ac.uk @fedebotta.bsky.social #Exeter @exetercompsci.bsky.social www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/databeers-...
1/ 🎧 New episode of 'Health Data Decoded'! 🎧 #IDSky #EpiSky #SciComm 🎙️ A @livunichil.bsky.social podcast discussing how we can use civic data to improve public health 👥 First episode introduces the co-hosts (myself & Sam Ball) 📹 Youtube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=zsaA... 🔗 episode on Spotify👇
Health Data Decoded | Episode 1: Samuel Ball and Edward Hill
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The Focus Issue on Urban Mobility and Green Transportation in Sustainable Cities is open for submissions. Visit the webpage for submission guidelines and to view published papers: iopscience.iop.org/collections/...
IOPscience - Focus Issue on Urban Mobility and Green Transportation in Sustainable CitiesSearch
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Great work by Zihao on this! Very excited to see this out on the ArXiv!
Zihao Chen@zihaochen.bsky.social · last yr.📢 New pre-print alert! We examine the geography of inequalities in access to healthcare across England from the dynamic perspective of bus travel time variability (TTV). #HealthcareAccess #Inequality #TravelTimeVariability #TransportDataScience @fedebotta.bsky.social arxiv.org/abs/2501.19231
New preprint out today! Joint work with Rudy Arthur @exetercompsci.bsky.social , we explore the use of Valeriepieris circle as a tool to reveal city and regional boundaries in England and Wales using different data sources. More info here: arxiv.org/pdf/2502.07451
Check the late-breaking call for @complenet.bsky.social! Let's meet in Fortaleza. complenet.weebly.com/late-breakin...
The @netsciconf.bsky.social satellite Network Science for the Sustainable Development Goals is back! Are you working on #networkscience methods for analyzing the #SDGs, including understanding and measuring vulnerabilities? Submit your abstract by Feb 20 👇 sites.google.com/view/netsci4....
NetSci4SDGs
The 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), adopted by all United Nations Member States in 2015, constitute a roadmap of the broad set of challenges that our society is facing today - from ending pov...
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It's been 2 years since publication, so the embargo on our book (with J. Vallée) "Inequality in geographical space" is over! You can find the postprint files of every chapter of the book as part of this collection hal.science/hal-04369308, including our introductory chapter hal.science/hal-04369338
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We are hiring a postdoc/researcher at my group (SUNLab) @nunetsi.bsky.social. Interested in working on multidisciplinary problems like segregation, health, or economic growth from the perspective of Social Urban Networks? Contact me if you are interested. Please share it!
Honored to lecture at the 10th-anniversary edition of MSCx and to join such an incredible lineup of speakers. Having participated in 3 past editions, I can say MSCx stands out not only for its academic excellence but also for its vibrant group dynamics - Mediterranean vibes surely play a role! 😀
Mediterranean School of Complex Networks@mscxnetworks.bsky.social · 2y agoThe call for our 10th edition is open 🙃! We trained almost 400 young researchers so far 🧑🔬 Can you miss one week of network science with leading network scientists in the field? In the beautiful island of Ortigia (Sicily)? Hurry up! Only 60 seats available, deadline 11/02/25
Hello world! We have created a starter pack to showcase the work of early career researchers in complex systems. The list is still under development! If you feel like you might fit in this category, let us know in the comments and we will add you :) go.bsky.app/95gzSqM
Particularly delighted and a personal pleasure to be able to announce our next keynote speaker: @suzymoat.bsky.social from @datasciencelab.bsky.social will be joining us in Exeter for @css-conference.bsky.social !
Conference on Complex Systems@css-conference.bsky.social · 2y ago#KeynoteSpeaker @suzymoat.bsky.social is a Professor of Behavioural Science and co-director of the Data Science Lab. Her research investigates whether data on our usage of the Internet (eg: Google, Wikipedia & Flickr) can help us measure and even predict human behaviour in the real world.
The first of our keynote speakers! We'll be announcing more of them over the coming days.
Conference on Complex Systems@css-conference.bsky.social · 2y ago#KeynoteSpeaker Andrea Migliano is Prof of Evolutionary Anthropology at the Uni of Zurich. She explores how hunter-gatherer behavior shapes human adaptations like complex sociality, cumulative culture, and pro-sociality using comparative socioecology, network analyses, and experimental psychology
Let’s start with our chairs! @fedebotta.bsky.social is a Senior Lecturer in Data Science @uniofexeter.bsky.social and a Turing fellow. His research aims to provide a deeper understanding of human behavior, both at the collective and individual levels, by utilizing novel data streams.
The 15-minute city quantified using human mobility data www.nature.com/articles/s41...
My first post on here, and it's an exciting one! The call for contributions (abstracts & satellites) for CCS 2024 is now live on our brand new website! We are very excited to welcome you to Exeter!
Conference on Complex Systems@css-conference.bsky.social · 3y agoOur website is up and running! Now you can submit satellite proposals and send in abstracts to the 20th CCS in Exeter! ccs24.cssociety.org
