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The Department of Economics, Management and Quantitative Methods, University of Milan, offers a two years postdoc position in Statistics.
* The research theme of the postdoc is: "Social Well Being Index: integrating big data, social media and official statistics to develop a new social wealth indicator."
This project aims to build an index of subjective well-being based on the analysis of data from Twitter. This SWBI = "Social Well Being Index" makes use of million of opinions expressed every day on Twitter to investigate dynamically the perception of personal well-being and relationships within society. SWBI focuses on "personal" and "social" as well as well-being at "work". The SWBI will be coupled and compared with other wealth indicators, like GDP, to perform cross-country analyses.
* Directors of research: Stefano M. Iacus, Silvia Salini
* Who should apply:
Successful candidate should have a PhD in Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science or related fields and good knowledge of the R programming language.
* How to apply?
Read the complete call here:
http://www.unimi.it/cataloghi/ass_collaborazione_ricerca/BANDO_tipo_A_2014eng_per_sito_def.pdf
* Salary: The postdocs will be employed with a fixed term employment contract at the University of Milan. Gross salary amounts to approximately 21K EUR/year.
* Deadline: 17 February 2015
For further informations mail to: Stefano M. Iacus, [log in to unmask]
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Stefano M. Iacus
Director of MEF - Master in Economics & Finance
http://www.mef.unimi.it
Department of Economics,
Management and Quantitative Methods
University of Milan
Via Conservatorio, 7
I-20123 Milan - Italy
Ph.: +39 02 50321 461
Fax: +39 02 50321 505
Twitter: @iacus
http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=JBs9tJ4AAAAJ&hl=en
Master in Economics & Finance
http://www.mef.unimi.it
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