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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_2014en...

* 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, stefano.iacus@unimi.it

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