Marco Fattore
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August 2015
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Marco
Fattore
Assistant professor
December 19th, 1969
Milano, Italy
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+39-348-3367635
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Department of Statistics and Quantitative Methods - University of Milano - Bicocca
Interuniversity Research Centre on Public Services - CRISP
SIS - Italian Statistical Society
Classification and Data Analysis Group - CLADAG
Italian society of economy, demography and statistics
AIQUAV (Italian Association for Studies on Quality of LIfe)
Schooling
2005 Ph.D. in Statistics, University of Milano - Bicocca
Dissertation title: Structural dynamics indicators of work and employment in the vertically
integrated pure work model
1995 Degree in Physics, University of Milano
Dissertation title: Construction of an effective Hamiltonian for the three dimensional Ising
Model
1988 Highschool degree in Classical Studies, Istituto Salesiano Sant’Ambrogio, Milano
Job experiences
2004–Today Assistant professor at University of Milano - Bicocca
1997–2003 ICT consultant, Etnoteam SpA, Milano
Spoken languages
Italian Native speaker
English Good
Driving Yes
license
Teaching
Since 2004, I gave courses in applied statistics at the Departments of Statistics and
Economy (University of Milano - Bicocca) both at degree and Ph.D level. Courses
mainly pertained to socio-economic indicators, time series analysis, applied multivariate
data analysis and quantitative market analysis. I also mentored several students for
their final dissertations.
Since 2008, I gave courses in basic data analysis for data visualization, at Department
of Design of Politecnico di Milano.
I also taught within several academic Masters in quantitative methods, social sciences
and business intelligence.
In the last four years, I held several courses, pertaining to data science methods, in
big market companies (e.g. H3G Italy, IGPDecaux Italy).
In the incoming academic year, I am in charge to teach a course on unstructured data
analysis and data science, to third-year students in Statistics.
Research
My research activity started in 2003 and moved across different topics, from classical
economic statistics to more innovative areas and, recently, to data science. Currently,
I am pursuing both a more technical research line, devoted to application of partial
order theory to multidimensional data analysis, and a more applied one, pertaining to
big data analysis in various fields.
2008-now Multidimensional poverty measurement, through partial order theory. The
main topic of the research pertains to the foundations of statistical procedures for
exploiting complex systems of ordinal data in socio-economic evaluation. The topic is
relevant for two main reasons. First, in a beyond GDP perspective socio-economic
data are mainly of an ordinal kind. Second, statistical tools for socio-economic analysis
are mainly designed for numerical variables, and prove inefficient and inconsistent
when applied to ordinal attributes.
In this perspective, I worked on the application of the theory of partially ordered
sets to data analysis, developing a novel methodology for the evaluation of material
deprivation and multidimensional poverty. After some intermediate international
publications, the methodology got finally published in Social Indicators Research
in August 2015.
The application of partial order theory to multidimensional data analysis is currently my
main research field. In particular, I am working on the use of partial orders to address
the - up to now unsolved - problem of inequality measurement with multidimensional
ordinal data. This research line led me to build a network of national and international
cooperation, which is now developed into a community of scholars interested in
application of partial order theory to different fields (e.g. ecology, socio-economics,
multicriteria-decision making, data analysis, biology and botanic. . . ).
The theory of partial orders, and its application to evaluation, are also useful in market
analysis and business intelligence. In this perspective, I developed a methodology for
customer targeting based on partial orders. The methodology has been already applied
in the advertising sector and proved very effective. Results of such an experiment are
planned to be published in the next future.
2012-now Socio-economic network analysis, developing new measures of network dynamics.
Results have been published in Quality and Quantity. Currently, I am working on
the development of measures of small-worldness of social networks.
2006-2007 Structural Equation Modeling, focusing on formative-reflective latent variable
models. This activity resulted in a publication in Computational Statistics and
Data Analysis.
2003-2010 Theory of price indexes, focusing in particular on axiomatic theory of geologarithmic price indexes and in applications of price index theory to the energy market.
Results of this research line have been published on the Journal of Econometrics
and in Energy Policy.
Research and applied Projects
I have been involved in many projects, both at academic level and as a consultant, both
in Institutions and market companies. In the following, some of the more relevant.
1997-2003 Before joining the faculty of Statistics in 2003, I had the position of Project Manager
in ICT projects, mainly pertaining to quality assurance and business process reengineering, in the finance and automotive sectors. Main customers: Fiat, Iveco,
Italian Stock Exchange, Akros Bank, Intesa Bank.
2003-now Research projects at academic and institutional level. In particular:
[1] Scientific consultant in the development of BES, the multidimensional index of wellbeing, promoted by Istat (Italian National Statistical Bureau) and Cnel.
[2] Responsible for the project ‘Advanced data analysis, soft modeling and soft computing
methods in application to socio-economic systems’, involving CRISP and Systems
Research Institute - Polish Academy of Sciences.
[3] Price index in time and space - Research project; coordinator Prof. G. Ferrari.
[4] Measurement and statistical analysis of territorial specialization of Italian productive
system, within a knowledge-based economy - Research project; coordinator: Prof. C.
Filippucci.
2011-now Data science projects. In the last years I have been involved, as scientific consultant,
in several big data and data science projects, with market companies and institutions.
A partial list follows:
[1] Eupolis Lombardia (regional institution) - Twitter sentiment analysis, to monitor the
perception of regional policies via text mining and supervised classification tools (in
progress).
[2] Eupolis Lombardia (regional institution) - Development and prototipization of a
process to exploit Lombard open data for territorial marketing. The project aimed
at developing a set of territorial visualizations helping tourists to see what kind of
touristic experience they could have in different territorial areas, reconstructing and
mapping territorial vocations through open data.
[3] Politecnico di Milano - Analysis of big data from phone calls in Ivory Coast, to identify
possible usage of telephonic data as a support to entrepreneurs and as a leverage for
economic development.
[4] H3G Italy - Re-engineering of internal processes for Customer Satisfaction Measurement
and Monitoring.
[5] IGPDecaux Italy - Market analysis using Kohonen maps, to visualize the structure
and dynamics of advertisement investments in Italian market.
[6] IGPDecaux Italy - Customer targeting, using an original procedure based on partial
order theory.
[7] Sky Italy - Analysis of website traffic, using Kohonen maps on big data, to recover the
structure of visiting behaviors and their seasonal dynamics.
Other information
Since 2003, I participated to several workshops and conferences, both as contributor
and as invited speaker (namely, at international conference “The Evolution of Economic
and Social Inequalities in Switzerland (and Beyond) Exactly How and Why Inequality
has Changed and with what Impacts”, - Neuchatel 2014 and at “8th International
Conference of Panel Data Users in Switzerland”, Lausanne 2015); I gave different
seminars on the topic of application of partial order theory in socio-economics, both in
academic institutions and in Istat and Eurostat. Also, I was the local organizer of the
11th Partial Order Workshop (Florence, 20i5). I usually do paper reviewing activities
for Social Indicators Research.
Marco Fattore