DESPINA | BIG DATA LAB FOR BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE AND SOCIAL SCIENCES

Despina is the lab on Big Data Analytics at the Department of Economics and Statistics of the Università degli Studi di Torino. We conduct exploratory and applied research into collection, integration, management, and analysis of data related to business, economy, and society.

Despina can be reached in two ways: by ship or by camel. The city displays one face to the traveler arriving overland and a different one to him who arrives by sea [...] Each city receives its form from the desert it opposes; and so the camel driver and the sailor see Despina, a border city between two deserts.
Italo Calvino, "Invisible Cities" (1972)