Alessio Gandelli
Co-founder of StudyBuddy and social data scientist.
About Me
I like building things, could be wood, but now is software and a startup.
Tutorials & Writings
Projects
StudyBuddy
A platform for university students, i am developing the mobile app in Flutter and soon it will be accessible on the app store, if you want to test it, contact me
Network of Topics
Created a Python library that performs topic modeling on tweets and builds a multi-layer network with each layer corresponding to a distinct topic
Papers
Online Social Influence
Diletta Goglia, Davide Vega, Alessio Gandelli
When people see what most others think online, they actually do the opposite on purpose - but still keep the same good or bad feeling about it.
Climate Twitter Polarization
Alessio Gandelli
Looked at Twitter fights about climate change during a big meeting. Found that people arguing about Canada's coal and private jets were the most divided.
Resume
Alessio Gandelli
Work Experience
Visiting researcher at Uppsala University
Apr 2024 - Jun 2024
Conducted research on social media dynamics, particularly polarization and disagreement using NLP techniques.
Data Science intern at Uppsala University
Mar 2023 - Jun 2023
Master thesis analyzing polarization in climate change tweets during COP.
Education
Data Science MSc
University of Trento | 2021 - 2023
Focus on machine learning and data analysis
Computer Science BSc
University of Trento | 2018 - 2021
Core computer science fundamentals
Projects
πΈοΈ Tweets-to-topic-network
Python library for social scientists to efficiently label tweets using BERTopic.
View on PyPI βπ€ StudyBuddy-tutor
Telegram bot with advanced generative AI capabilities for students.
View on GitHub βSkills
Technical Skills
Python, R, TypeScript, social network analysis, NLP, Flutter
Soft Skills
Adaptability, team work, etc