Mainstream, online news and social media alike have been replete with images of refugees since last summer. Images of people continuously on the move; marching through the countryside (on their way ...
Francesco D'Orazio
Francesco D’Orazio is a researcher and designer with a social science and digital media background. He is co-founder and VP Product at Pulsar, Chief Innovation Officer at FACE and co-founder of the Visual Social Media Lab. His work focuses on designing systems and research frameworks to analyse social data using computational social science and data visualisation. Most of his research focuses on virality, social influence, audience insights and marketing optimisation. He is a regular speaker at research, innovation and technology conferences such as Big Data Week, Social Media Week, Strata, IIEX, WARC, MRS, Esomar. His work has been featured in the likes of BBC, Guardian, CNN, BuzzFeed, Mashable, Quartz, The Next Web - and on Commander Hadfield’s Twitter feed.