Andrea Sciandra

andrea.sciandra@unipd.it

Phone

0498274371

Place

Dipartimento di Filosofia, Sociologia, Pedagogia e Psicologia Applicata - FISPPA
VIA M. CESAROTTI, 10/12 - PADOVA

Profile

Andrea Sciandra is a type A researcher in Social Statistics at the Department of Philosophy, Sociology, Pedagogy and Applied Psychology of the University of Padua. Graduated in Statistical, Demographic and Social Sciences, he obtained a PhD in Sociology and Social Research. His main research interests concern social media, text mining, social network analysis, author attribution, Large Language Models and the application of machine learning techniques in the social sciences. He has been a lecturer of the PhD in Human Rights, Society, and Multi-level Governance and of the Summer Schools "IQLA-GIAT in Quantitative Analysis of Textual Data" and "Social Statistics". He is currently a member of the Italian Society of Statistics (SIS), of the Interdisciplinary Group of Textual Analysis (GIAT) and of the discussion panel on statistical methods for the analysis of textual data "Text.it" (SIS group "SDS - Statistics and Data Science"). In the past he collaborated with the SWG research institute in Trieste and was co-founder of Rante, the first Italian R User Group.