01766nas a2200169   4500008004100000020001800041245007400059210006900133260005500202520117100257100002201428700001901450700002201469700001701491700002401508856006401532       2016                        eng d  a978889635488900aBig Data and Public Administration: a case study for Tuscany Airports0 aBig Data and Public Administration a case study for Tuscany Airp  aUgento, Lecce (Italy)bMatematicamente.itc06/20163 aIn the last decade, the fast development of Information and Communication Technologies led to the wide diffusion of sensors able to track various aspects of human activity, as well as the storage and computational capabilities needed to record and analyze them. The so-called Big Data promise to improve the effectiveness of businesses, the quality of urban life, as well as many other fields, including the functioning of public administrations. Yet, translating the wealth of potential information hidden in Big Data to consumable intelligence seems to be still a difficult task, with a limited basis of success stories. This paper reports a project activity centered on a public administration  - IRPET, the Regional Institute for Economic Planning of Tuscany (Italy). The paper deals, among other topics, with human mobility and public transportation at a regional scale, summarizing the open questions posed by the Public Administration (PA), the envisioned role that Big Data might have in answering them, the actual challenges that emerged in trying to implement them, and finally the results we obtained, the limitations that emerged and the lessons learned.1 aFurletti, Barbara1 aFadda, Daniele1 aPiccini, Leonardo1 aNanni, Mirco1 aLattarulo, Patrizia  uhttp://sebd2016.unisalento.it/grid/SEBD2016-proceedings.pdf